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A now and entargod edition, I6mo, Price, $1.00, ROBERYS BROS., Publishers, Mallod, postpaid, on recolpt of price by JANSEN, McCLURG & CO., 117 & 119 State-st., Chicago. BOOKS The following Books are now in and for fale, (Seo Review clsewhere in this paper.) * Early Man in Europe, - Homo Sum. | . How to Camp Out, Hopeless Case, ~ Ballads and Lyrics, F. H. HEAD, 40 Madison-st. “HONS. LECO0,” ANow, Entertatatng, and Intensely Dramatic DETECTIVD STORY, From the pon of vane EMILE GATORIAU, Author of “The Y Tho Alyst Pn Orel Nun Tesh ue fila La ee oe No, HAM "Guta Poaplore Bangg,” « Rech votumo pupitetind complute at 80 conte t Derang Lin Slut Comoe ab conte in par mag ale wt ait Bookstores, Nowsstands, and on all ESTES & LAURIAT, 209 to 805 Washingtoncster Boston. The Death of Gen, Guritold’s Father, Cleveland Leader, - His mothor, a woinun. of Wonderful tntollle Feuco and Ulghly endowed by nature, was saggded tou mun of the most genvrous tu pulses wd lirgeness of woul, and toyother thoy sought ‘ol fortunes inthe Wouts of Orange, Cuyubo- tea 0, To this couple wore born tour don, dunes Abrum belng tho luat, When ‘youngest son wus ouly 2 yours ald his fa- 4 tant overworked und weury [rota the labor of oa! td bia wheat crop from A fire which tbreat- ie ed its destruction, aat in a draftot wind aud tlttuctad 8 violont sore throut, A quack doc- “ae Of tho time applied a blistor, which caused rivtrg choke tu dont. Vigorous hearty In bly is fran, tn bls dying moments he ead to Abeloved wife: Tyg hee planta four saplings in theso woods, eh fikuiy'a uae sok ep hs far, site just look ou , #44 calling his oxeu by Dauio, bo diode Early Man in Britain—A New Work by Prof. Daw-. king. Diseases of the Skin—History of New York—Some New Novels. Now England Bygones—lfomo Sum=—Tho Metric System— Ballads y Lyrics, Magazines—Books Received~Literary, Art, and Scientific Notes. é LITERATURE, é EARLY MANIIN BRITATH, It is just 800 years since Pallysy (1580) dared to assert in Paris that (what ars now known to be) fossit remalns of testacea and fishes had once belonged to marine aniinals, That may be regarded as the beginning of posltivo assertion of paleontological fnet, though hints in the same direction had been thrown out previously, oven by the carly Greek philosophors. ‘The three centuries that have elapsed since tha ngsertion of Palissy havo witnessed the elaboration of a system which may fairly bo termed the greatest triumph of the human intellect in the realm of natural science. Other depnrtinents of investigation may have equally taxed tho mental powers in making comparisons and drawing inferences, but they have presented tho advantage of pormitting }n test of the accuracy of a detuc- tion at many, if not each one, of the steps In the process of reasoning, ‘Tho inathematician can test the value of his logic by substitution of particular yalues of an unknown quantity in his formula, Tho ns- tronomer can measure his theoretical results against those obtalned by observation, ‘Tha chemist can pit analysis and synthesis against each othor for the detection of error in his reasonings. ‘The philologtst ean bur- row ad libitum among his speecli roots with- out lessening their value in subsequent re- search. ‘The physiologist may study living forms without fear that they will not bo re- produced for subsequent essay. But itis very different with tho study of fossils, which aro widely sundered basie points that must be connected by a logtent triangulation in order to have an {Intelligent discussion of the subject, ‘That is almost entirely a matter of inferenco; and in many enses a large part of the proof becomes indistinet, or vanishes entirely, with the discovery, It is ns though thehistoryof Nature were written in many successive chapters on one and the sainc page; Ike a millefold pallmpsest, In whieh we can only read any one elupter by “obliterating all that have suceceded it, The character of the objects themselves, with tha position where found, with referenco, to overlying strata, are the polnts giver, With regard to the first, {t 1s often more dificult to mentally reconstruct tho | whole from the fragment discovered, than St was once thought to be to “judge of Ilereules by his foot.” In’ tho second, the igeing which wnenrths aspecien often disarranges conditions 60 much as to render unsatisfactory any subse- quent attempt at verification. In no case can one summon audible witnesses to say Whether or no the thing found were or- dinary or extraordinary in the age that pro- duced It; and tho most vivid imagination may: tax Ltsel? in vain to pleture,to itself the con. ditions which obtalned In the Jong buried ages of the hoary past. Under these cireum- _stances It Is no wander that so many blunders have been committed and detected, or that ‘the conclusions arrived at by the most emt- nent tollers In thistleld have been mecrilesly rejected by their most enthusjastle adinirers, | The wonder is rather that so many hove bent: thelr energies to the solution of the problem, aud accomplished so much In worming out tho unwritten history of nn apparently end- less creation, ‘Tho most futeresting results of this in- quiry have been grouped in a work of about 600 uages, by Prof. William Boyd Dawkins, of Owen’s College, Manchest glands who, we need searcely gay, 13 wi ‘ocornized ng a very high authority In this departinent of research. ‘The book professes, by its title, to treatof* Exrly Man in Britain, and [fis Pinca In the Tertiary Periods” but. tt covers much moro ground than nilght be wnderstood from such an announcement, Itcontains so much of the fending fuets of geology and paleon- tology ns fy necessary to.an wnderstanding of the place which man holds in tho long-con- tinned serles of suceessively evolved mate- riul forms of organized existence. And thts not only for what is now called Britain, but for a much wider urea of the hablt- able globe, Beginning’ with the coceno epoch, the author gives reasons for tho bellef that Britain was then connected with America as well ns with the Continent of Europe bytand ridges along which the migration of animals was possible; and sketches the then geology, fauna, and florn of Europe, showlng that there is 10 evidencg elther of giaclal epoch or af the existence of mun In thatage, dle then sketches the plelo- cena perlod in Northwestern Europe, s+ cusses the alleged evidence that hiuman be- Ings ved then In France and Italy, and pra nuunces It unsatisfactory. Ile concludes that man first uppeared In’ Europe in the leistocens (‘most recent”) age, when now ving species of mammalian beeame xbun- dant, as shown by thelr remains In the rocks ofto-day.. ‘This was long after the submerge ence of tho land comnecting Britauln with Greenland, and the union of the Atlantic with tho North Sea and the Aretle Ocean, ‘The remoing (tools) of the earliest man are found in’ tho river drift, Ile was “ondowed with all human attributes, and without any signs of a closer alilance with tha lower, animals than ts presented by tho savages of to-lay; nao hunter, armed with rudo stone Implements.” ‘There are proots that theso men Hyed throughout Western aud Southorn Europe, In Northern Afriea, Asia Minor, and India, Foltowing those were the “cave men,” who tient better finplements, and wero endowed with tho fnenlty of represouting, with remarkable fidelity, aniinal forms, ‘They have lett numer ous pletures on bones which appenr to have | been engraved with fractured Muts, They Ilved in Europy, north of the Alps and Pyrenees, as far as Derbyshire in England; and probably belonged to the same race As the Eskimos of ourday, ‘Tho change by which Sritaln became ‘one island, with more Temponite elite, was accompanied by tho extinction of some anhinals, the migra- tion of others, and the. disappearance of tha cave man ee a Jon mp; no on how Tour, The earllost of the present Inhab- itants of Britain arrived thera In the Pre- historic Age, The small, dark, non-Aryan peoples (Ar-plough) who spread over Franco tnd Spain, took with them Into Hritatn the domestic aniinats and the cultivated plants and seeds, Inying the foundation of the cult- wroof the presentday, ‘Tha bronze-using Coltle tribes, ich composed the van of tho Aryan rave, noxt invaded Britain from tha Gontinent, mid Introdueed a higher elvittza- tlon than that of the Neolithic ayo, In Corn- wall tin was probably mined during tho Bronze Age, ta mix with copper for muking weapons, Following this tha use of Iron be- eames known; and in the prehistoric Iron nee the condition of Brituin was higher than it hnd ever been previously, Commerce was enrried on with the Mediterranean peoples: and works of Etruscan art ponetrated as far west ns Ireland, Mankind ia yet In tho [ron Ago; ita prehis- torle portion was probably muels shorter than the Agu of Bronze. Ludeed, the discovery of fron would seem to huve very shortly pre- eeded the making af written history on the shores of the Mediterranean, Several cen- tujes mora elapsed before the ilstoria Ago beginy Ju Northern nnd Western Europe, ‘There was a considerable overlap between the historic period of the Mediterranean and ihe Neolltite,, Bronze, aul prehistoric Iron sof Britain, : {ihe above brief sketch of results attalned in searching the rocks and caves for traces of the humun being searcely contains anything that has not already found Its way into print, but the collocation of the facts by Prof. Daw- king Is new and yery judiciously made, with- out unnecessary proi{xity, and will undoubt- edly be of great service In enabling thothink- ing portion of mankind to understand the ‘ours from, waich the Inforences have been. built up into a system, It is note- ji . ; Cy (strat on the elaims based on the discovery of the skull at Ohno, and. the so-called " cut bones” obtained from tho Pieiacons strata of Tuseany, Also on the ent bones dis- covercd: In 1803 In the deposit of St. Prest, Ne regards as “not proven” any claim that nan oxisted In an age when other inanimatin known in our day did not oxist in numbers suflicient to leave In tho rocks traces of their presence, He necepts only such * proofs’? Of inan’s antiquity a8 are not open to reason- able doubt: and dn. tis respect cominends ils conclusions to the neceptance of a world tired of assumptions for which there {3 no apparent busts of fact, Early Manta Britain; and Ws Place in the 'Tortlary Period, By W, Boyd Dawkins, Curator of the Manchester Sissi a Pro- fessor of GO. enloey and Valeontology in Owen's College, Manehester. London: Mac- millen & Co. “Pri nD, WO. A NEW MEDICAL IAND-BOOK. Dunean Brothers, of Chleago, have just published n compact and handsome little vol- ume under tho titls of ‘A: Hnnd-Boole of Skin Diseases and Thelr Homeopathic Treat- ment,” written by Dr, John’ lt, Kippax. Dr. Kippax fs the Professor of Institutes and Practice of Medicine and Medical Jurispru- dence in tha Chiengo Homeopathic College. Hels also the physician of skin «discases at the Central Homeopathic Fres Dispensary, and has consequently given unusual study to practical dematology, ‘The distinguishing features of the present volume are to be found in the concise treatment of the sub- ject, the cyelopedine arrangement of tho various diseases of the skin, a clean-cut direction as to the approved treatment, den nitions of the ehemleal terms employed a pronouncing glossary and a bibl! ography of the matter contained In the volume, Ib fs for tralned physicians to pronounce upon the juerits of the treatment advised in the thon- sand and one varieties of skin-diseases which are deserted, but every Jaytnan who tikes up the hook will admire the excellent system in whieh the infornintion has been arranger, it ts evident, ton, from the practical tone ndopted that Dr, Kippax has large experience in the trentment of cutaneous diseases, aud Lie tnnmetinie or this esperlenes to his co- laborers in the homepathic school will une doubtedly be of service to the profession, and, throuch the doctors to tho getieral public. (A. Hand-Dook of Skin-Diseases, and Thelr Homeopathle ‘Treatment. By John It, Ki pax, M.D, LL, D, leago} Duncan Broth- ers, 1880,, THE HISTORY OF NEW YORK. Part Eighth of tho second volume of Mrs, Martha J. Lamb's “JListory of the City of New York” conducts tho reader through nenrly five years of that most fascinating perlod of New York’s history, from tho sum- mer of 1789 to tha beginning of the year 1704, It embraces a passing view of Washington's busy life In Now York as the first President of the Unitert States, hls dally walks and drives, hisindustry in thostudy of the sclenco sof government, his mutnners, equipage, inethods of work, and responsibilities, with gllinpses of the prominent people with whom. ho was in-coustant association, whether they figured In the administration of the National Government, in the public aftalrs of the State nnd City of ‘New York, or In tho s ‘This part of Mra, Lamb's great work will bo speciaily yalued not only for {ts brilliant -pen-pleture of the ~thnes, but _for ts full-page ‘pencil sketch of Wall street—n cnrefil study from strictl: fquthontle sources—with Federal Hall in all its glory, and President Washington (after the manner of the King and Parllament of Great Britain), on hig way to deliver his mes- sage in person at tho opening of Congress, The charlot of the sketch isa copy of the orlgtual, and the six horses and moutted at- tendants are from a description In Washine- ton’s own private diary, Part Elhth/also contains an account of the orgunization of tho United States Trensur Denartnent, the manazement-of the public debt, the regila- tlon of. tregiies aud foreign trade, the estab- “Ustnent of the permanent seat of Govern- tient on the Potomac, tho remoyal of tho Government from New York to Philadelphia for ten years, and the confusions produced ‘by the revolution In France, together with niany matters of local progress. : MINOR ‘NOTICES. |* " “Tho Roman Traitor” is sensational and mildly thrilling yolume from the pen of Mr, unknown to readers of ight fiction. Itis a work dealing with the days of Catalfne, and Js In fact composed or based on the conspiracy of the two Romuns wo have mentioned. It was orginally published several years ago, Cicero appears In the plot as tho true friend of the Roman Commonwealth. ‘Tho dark in- trigues which ultimately overthrow tho Ro- man Republic ure deseribed nt length ns falthfully a8 a careful reading of Sallust and a vivid iinngination, combined, could aecom- plish the desired end. . —"Unto tho Third and Fourth Generation,” by Helen Campbell, fs 1 story of considera. dle strength, Hlnustratlng the principles of inherited traits, aud developing rather curlously tho effects of rigid early teaching on impressiblo natures, The {dea of the story is somewhat original, itis that of a youth gifted with personal beauty, fine talents, and) great strength of character (in- cluding however, a flery and almost over- mastering temper underlying his ordinary gentleness aud amiability), who. was, as his stern mother taught him’ to believe, “born under a eurse,” hls fathor having suffored the extreme penalty of the law for a murder committed in a moment of passion. ‘Tho gradual overcoming of both the curso and the temper constitute the chiet motive of the story, though interwoven with Itare many -lines of interest and scenes of Dife in the weods, on the Inkes, In the mines, and in the back country. ‘The region and thuo are found jon Lake -Champhiin and on Lake Superior some thirty years ago, ‘beginning before thelr shores wero 13 papi lons and busy as they now are; inching uso some Yankee picttres from the Cham- plain region of Vermont, ‘The development of the varlous characters is not elaborate, but free-handed. Without being a powerful story, ft fs inlldly intoresting and harmless. It isdvery nently gotten up by the publistors, —Mr. Gould's ttle book, entitied “Tow to Camp Out,” is a now and cheaper edition of a work builishiod Jn 1877, and tt contains conslderablo intorination In a compact and handy form. Many little books have bean published on the sme subject, We do not seu but that this ono is as useful as any of tho othors, ‘Theanthor'’s own experience lis been extensive, and he has drawn freely from the oxperiments of othors, IIls advice about “new inventions” issound and will bo appreciated bY, miany, ‘The lst of “ neces: ay articles” Is a long one, but most of thom will pack into a amallcompass, Many ditfer- ent ways of enjoying 4 cumplng-out trip are Indicated, and a usetul chapter of hygienic notes by Dr, Cones, U.S. A., 18 nppendted, —Tho metric system in tho United Strtes was made legal by act of Congress in 18a, It- 13 employed by tho Government in Its Mint, larger Post-Oflices, and CoustSurvey, and {s_nlso dn general use amons scientific men. The ttle work before us clang that the inctric systein Is simpler than any other system of welghts and measures, It 1g enslly caleulnted by the decimal notation, its base Is not subject to variation and it alms at. uni- formity among all nations, ‘This book 1s in- tended ns a text book to teach the metric system, and seems well adapted for the ob ject proposed. 16 furnishes abundant mate- rial for tha proutics necessary In order to acquire facility In translating from the old. system into the metric equivalent, —Georg Eber’s “ Homo Sum" fs rathera eurlous work. Its author ranks among the frat of living Egyptologists, and, iu hls nove els, deals almost ontirely with porlods of thie anterior by hundreds of years to the Christlan era, Ag was the case with “ Unrda,” this new novel of jis is an appen- Bia tw hls history of the Stnattle Pentisula, 1G says: Ln the mass of martyrology, of ascotle writhnys, and of histories of saints and monks, whieh it was ne crant to work through und sift for my strictly Mmited ob- vet, Leame upon a nafratlye which seemed lo me peewlr and touching, notwithstand: ing {ts Improbability, Sinat and the onsls of Pharan which Iles at its fout were the scene of the uction, An nuchorite, falsely accused instead of anothor, takes his punisimient of expulsion on himself without attumpting to exctlpate himself, and dis Innecence be- comes known only through the confession of thareal cujprit. A souls problem of tho most exceptional type sevined to nie to be of fored by the slinple course of this little his. tory.” “The tle of the story is about 850 A. D.” ‘The author's antiquarian knowledge en ablos him to Invest his story of these ancient days with many intervsting details, and th 1a book Is a falr ample of his gonius and skill, ~_=*Now England Bygones ” 1s nota novel, ‘and it 1s ditiicult to say exactly what it ‘There is no continulty of interest in the boo! “Herbert-(“ Frank Forrester’), an author not’ Ife half a century ago; dexcribes scenes the counterparts of which are familiar memories ofthoss of us who are of Kasten birth; colors, spring-tiine, haying, the routine ot farm-work, with the cloud of romance, and makes tts. almost yearn for country-Iffe,— partleularly the country Ife of fifty years ago. Moreover, {t all sounds so raturals the weten's pert moved in siooth aecompani- inent to his thoughts, ‘There fs an admirable description of tratningeday whieh we should Ike to reproduce lf we had the’ space, itis, in tact, a book of reminiscences, of thoughts, say, recaNed inthe evening of life ag the thinker gazedinfo the freplace, or sat alone upon the doormtep in the soft twillght oft fast-fading day, | And the thoughts are of Nature and her gifts, and will be wel- comud by nature-lovers and hy those who Inve known and experienced the slinpie rural Nfe of carly New England homes. —We are under obligations to the new firm of Houshton, Miflin & Co., for advance. sheets of Edear Faweett’s Inst publication, entitled “A Hopeless Case? ‘Tila Inst nd- dition to the “Little Classic Series *—for such we take It to he—Isa clever, unpretend- ing story, well written and well told, but without any great amount of body or much atrength, It may be considered as one of the first of the usual flock of summer novels, and better than the average. itis n story 6 tho old Knickerbocker families, and “the heroine, although making many conquests, does nob end the book bya Pappy marrage, but docs not marry or even fall lu love. She inspires love without feeling It. ‘Thus, seck- ing to reunlte a pair of separated lovers, the male member of the pair requites her kind offices. by falling in love with the peace- maker, Agnes is not an original character, We have often met her prototype. She ts. one of the kind who continually disappoint you by doing the right thing when you almast Jnow she will do the wroug thing, But she ig really quite loven le sort of n girl, Mr. Faweett has accomplished some very good character sketehing. ‘The book is light, but not toa Wehts possibly, Just. Misht enough, It is {1 many respects well worth reading. Itis a sharp satire an some of the follies of so-called fashlonable suciety, and it is sutirical without giving offense, —The_ main purpose of Ballads aud Lyr- len by Harry Cabot Lodge, is educational. It fs designed to breed a king for good poetry, and to sizgest nore extended reading In the works, both in prose and verse, of the best authors. ‘The object is certainly commenda, ble, the author thoroughly competent, and the selections in tha main judicious, Tho Holes are outline biographies of the different poets, fa —John T. Wheelwright and F. J. Stimson arg the authors of a “moral trayesty,”? en- uted “ Rollo’s Journey to Cambridge,” which was originally publshed In. the Har- vard Lampoon, wid 1s now punted in hand sone shape, with quaint Wustrations, by BE G, Atwood. It isa brilllant aud witty pleco of pure fun, and Ig an adinirable take-off on the “ Rollo. Soaks," to which it may pos- sibly be considered 9 Auppleme its Tt $3 an excellent cure for the “ blues,” and will at- ford enjoyment to any reader, —“ Wilfred” isncharming story, admirably told, Parts of If are pathetle, parts humor ous, parts mildly melodramrtic. As a whole it fs un simple, delighttul, earefully-written work of fictlon and ornaments the “Spare- Ilour Series,” of which it isa member. We ure not fanillar with the name of the writer, but whether an experienced hand or 8 novice inaking a first. allamnDks the author need not feo! ashamed of this’ = atory with ® lappy ending.” It is a thoroughly gaod book, without any affectation or sentimentallty, and withal interesting all the way throug! i It Is not # erent novel, nor docs it pretend to be. It denis with the short life of 1 little orphan boy, whose ‘docility, xentlencss, guilelesness, and purity win for lim friends everywhere, and who ilnally proves to be tho on ofan Earl ‘The seene at his death is ve ouching. Incidentally there is a quasl-villnin introduced, ant a little love Atale between Reginald Neville and’ Madel- ne, —An Iniportant addition fs made to the lit- erature of Sunday-school methods In the Rey. U: Clay Triumbull’s new book, A. Model Superintendent.” Tho yolume is biographical in charneter, having for its sub- ject the life and work—especlally in Sunday- schoels—of the late Henry uven, of New London, Conn. In {fs successive chapters It ver" fully tells just iow Mr. aven was a model Superintendent; bath in elty und coun- try Sunday-schools; and it presents not only -aeconnts of hig methods, but alse, wherever possibje, the precise: forms und exercises which ho eniployed. Zt is, in effect, nh hand- book of Sunday-sehool technics, embody; the experfence not only of Mr. Haven, but o! Mr. Trumbull, editor of the Sratudey-Schoot Times, than whom noiman living is more familiar with the best methods of Sunday- school work, ~Anne Ayres has written a very full nud complete history of “The Life and Work of William Augustus Muhlenherg,” best known to many perl haps as the author of that beauti- ful hymn begining, “1 would not live alway.” Dr. Muhlenberg was minister, author, and philanthropist. He was tho founder of St. Luke's Hospital and of St. Johnslind, Ile was aman of whom any age ofthe Church might have besn proud. He had positive and elearly-defined opinions, but was open.to conviction and -ready to recelve suggestions. Ile was not a grent thinker, but his Uhinking ts In tho institutions and churities he organized. Mo: toiled, for thoso who needed assistance, and New York ig proud of this eminent eltizen. ‘Phy work of the blographer fas been carefully and Jovingly done, Itis the record of 9 noble, earnest, Christian life. Honored while living: by all who know hin, it Is a fitting tribute to is memory that his blography should have been written by the futimate frlond to whom he once said; “You know more of iy: heart Bad inind on all poluts than any othor person. ving. MAGAZLNES, The Dial for June is fully as good as its predecessor. It promises to justify all the expeetations of Ils friends, The June number of Goldwin Sinith’s Canadian magazine, tho Bystander, discusses {ntelligently and forelbly “The Third ‘Term? question, nud devotes considerable siuce to American affairs. ‘The artleles are all short and to tho pofut, In the Banker's Magazine for Juno wo haye an unusually large and attractive num- ber. Dankera and finauclers, as well as others Interested In the ‘cluss of topics dis- cussed in this perlodieal, Inve long since acknowledged its value and Importance, The Penn Monthly for June discusses: “ Bayard Taylor on German Lltorature”; “Splritualism in Art, and the French Paint- ers of the Seventeenth Century”; “Tho Three Climutes of Geology"; "Mr, Mor- gun's Classiftcatory System of Itelation- ships,” The Etoher for April has three most oxcollent etchings, “My First Mutt,” Is by H. R, Robertson; " Fishing-Honts off Hast jane " by David Law; "Phe Haynmuaker,? by dW. Buston Kulght. It would be ditieult to say which of the three Is the most pleas Ing or the best. Morford’s Magazine for June Isa poet, miunber, Thy first poem fy trash, and the sine 1g true of some of the prose. ‘Lhe aril- eles by Mr. Reese and by Henry Morford are’ the best aniong the score or more contributed, The maguzine ts not yet showing the im provement that should come with age. ‘Tho Library Journal for May contains articles on “Gorman Libraries"; Librari- ans”; Thoughtson ‘Tits Faleing qo Notes from, Rochester”; “Zodlogleal Subjects Classifted: by the Dowos System yt dnters national Bibliography in, Austria” © ‘Tho Oldest Library in the Northwest” ' Edi- torial Notes,” ete, The Western Magazine clalins to be 9 suc- cess, and to have aliained a chreulution of over 14,000 copies, If the June niinber is 0 fulr sutuple, its requesta for patronnge must Jiave some other basis than the vatne of its contributions, 1b cantalis about thirty puges of reading matter,—some of them in- wresting, others less 50. The Santtartan treats of the following toples: “Charleston Water-Supply ” “ Germ- Disease 'Pheory; “Individual Work us Ne-. | luted to Health-Boards In the Future of Sant. tury Science"; “Protection from Venereal Diseases in America; and * Bakhug Pow- dors” and the usual amount of short udl- torlal paragraphs ond clippings. ‘The numbers of tho Living Age for thu weoks endlng May 20 and Jute 5, respective- ly, contain tha fullow! ry 3 Bos Wammedanism tn Ching?" Edinburg; " Ke- cent Events in Arabia,” “ideals of Fom!- nine Usefulness,” and “ Au Attempted Phi- losophy of. History,” Fortnightly; “The Pinch of Poverty,” Ninctoenth Century; “ International Novelists and Afr, Howells,” Contemporary; Klopstock,” Cornhill; * An Escape froma Fijlau Cyclone,” Aucuiillan; wy i Door Monk,” Pail’ Malls with installments of “Ile That Will Not When Ie “Verena Fontaine's Rebellion,” Crookit Mem and “ Bush-Life in Queens. Iand *; and tho usual amount of poctry. Wideatwake tan menthly: Intended for Juveniles, and it grows in value ag well as in size every month, ‘The number for June Is 0 marvel for beauty and interest. The illns- tration equal thoge of any similar publication {nthe cotfntry. ‘The orlginal articles are of excellent character. The price of the maga- zine, $2 per year, places it within the reach of every famlly. The Library Magazine 1s a cheap, well- rinted, eclectic periodical, . Its contents for Junenre: * Benjamin Franklin"; | and the Hights of Man’?; nts in Arabia”; “The Pinch erty; " Antnal Infelligenco’s * n Bank?? "Variations of the Jtoman Chureh"; Marens Aurelius’; “ Ernest Renan?;"" Daltontsm?; The Old Part of Naples”; The Morse and His Rider? The May number of the Magazincof Amer- tean History is somewhat Inte in making its Appearance. Its histortenl articles are on “The Battle of San Jacinto’? by Capt. Ke Me Potler, U. 8. A., and ‘The Battle of. Harlem Plains,” by John Austin Stevens, Part 111. of the "Diary of a French Oficer”® is con- tinued; and there isn review of “ Baker's Engraved Portraits of Washington, by Juanes Carson Brevoort. Macmitlan’s Magaztne for June has the following table of contents: “He that Will Not When Ie May,” by Mrs. Oliptant, Chay oO Ov: Wit Is fers 26 to 28 Arman Blennerhassett,” by A. G. Bradley; “The Sculptures on the Fa- ate fark’s, Venice,” by Jean Paul it. A Richter: “Some T i ehits on Shelley,” by Stopford A, Brooke: “Her Last Letter,” by Lady Lindsay of Batearres: “A Learned Lady of the Sixteenth Century,” by M. Creighton; “A Lost Poem by Edmund Spen- ser,” by Sebastian Evans; “ England and Rtussta,” by Str Charies Trevelyan, Bart. The articles in the June number of Potter's almertean Monthiy are entlt drals and Cathedral Towns,? 1.5 A. '§ in a Teapot’: "Phe Day of the Dead’; crated Flowers": "A Brave Battle”; he Clock npon the Shelf’; “Progress in Artificial Light’: “America’s Song Com- posers,” XUT.—Thomas P. Westendorf; “The June-Box"”: “How Love _Beenine Bind"; “Leon Manor: or, ‘The Resolute Ghosts, A Story of Maryland fn 1725,” con- eluded; “The Extradition of, Arguelles”; “Waiting”; Authorship and Literature,” 1. The Victorian Revtew is an excellent mar- azine, published nt Melbourne, Australia, Among the notable articles in the April niimber is one on “The Agrarian Agitation in Ireland,” and another on “A French Dick- ens.” Other articles ure: “On Victorian Pollties,” by the Rt-Hon, Eurl Grey, K. Gt “Is the Kurth Beeoming Bald 2” by dames Smith; * The Pulplt and the Age,” by the Rev. Alfred Rigg; “A New World in Eastern Europe,” by the lev, James Steel: “SomeOh- servations and Reserrehes in Physical Sel- ence,” by J. Wood Beilby; “Some Ac- eount of Central Australia,” by Rich- ard Bennett; Lev History ‘of Phi- losophy,.”? by the Hon, C, Hamilton Bromby, AL LC, (Tasmania); “On Tennis," by tlie Hon. Dobson, LL. D.; "Useful Re- forms,” by Edward E, Morria, M. Av; Aca- demical Teaching of Modern Languages,” "« Prof. Wi. Ay Strongy und “Growth of .—To the Dark Ages,” By ert Reeve. . ‘The standard of the Tevteiw is high and Its writers uble, so that it 4g a perlodient reflecting great credit on the distant region from whence it comes, LITERARY NOTES. L, Morris is the nameof theauthorof “An Ode of Life.” Mr. Lawrence Barrett is writing a life of Forrest, which is to be published by Osgood. &Co, * George Routledge & Sons are about to re- publish Capt. Bfarryat’s novels in seventeen volumes. . Mr. Swinburne is writing for the Fort- nightly Review an article on Victor Hugo's new pocin. Berthold Auerbach’s new .novel, “ Brigit- ta,” Is belng translated Into English for the Tauciinitz German series, . The title of Gen. Lew Wallnce’s new novel 48 Ben Hur, and its scene Js laid at Antioch pud Jerusalem during the. life of Christ. The Imperial “Prince ‘Rudolph. of Austria has written a novel, entitled “ Clelia,” which will shortly appear. It is written in English, EK. J. Hute & Son will publish “ Who Is Your Wife?” n satire on the divorce laws and complications, by -Waldort i. Phillips, a member of the New York Bar. The venerable John G, Palfrey, now in his 85th year, is busily engaged ut his Cambridge home upon the fitth and concluding volume of his “History of New Engtand.” Mr. Sala is occupted in preparing for pub- Neation in a volume the series of letters en- titled * America Revisited,” which he con- tributed to the London Dally Telcgraph. Miss Dudu Fletcher is in England, and has nearly recoyered from the effects of the braln-fever from which she suifered In Rome. Jast winter. Ler new book ts nearly finished, JS. Ogilvie & Co, will {Issue on the 15th of June “Other Fools and ‘Their Doings; or, Life Among the Freedmen, by One Wito Has Seen it." The book will treat specially of the Hamburg massacre. ‘The late Gustave Flaubert left several un- finishedgvorks. He was only 59 years old at the time of his death. IIs untinished works WHL probably be compluted by some other disciple of the Realistic School. Two bound mannscripts of Lamartine have just been sold in Paris. ‘The mauseript of “Jocelyn,” dated 1836, fetched 2,805 franes, and that of “Les Itarmonies Suc- rées.” dated 1820, brought 055 francs, The July Atlantic will contain an article on “Confederation in Canada,” by Frederick G, Mather, of the Albany Journal, who has Ilved in Canada ond knows much of the people and instituttons of that country, A. Williams & Co, have made a hit In Grant's “ Frivolous Girl.” "Though issued hardly a week they ‘have already printed 4,000; which is something extraordinary, considering that its author 1s comparatively unknown, Mr. James -Parton’s “Voltaire,” upon. whieh he has been engaged more or less for twenty _yeurs, giving his whole thie to It slnee 18° , Will be finished In August, and may bé expected from the press about next Christmas, Prof, Willtam Mathows lias accepted Inyi- tations from Heldelberg. College, ‘Tiflin, O., and Colby University, Waterville, Me., to nd- dress the Literary Societies of those institu. tions at the Comiuencements, on June 14 and July 27, Judge Albion Tourjee’s now book, on “The Exodus,” will be rendy in August, A Fool's Errand,” has alrendy attuned a cir culation of 100,000, Judge ‘Tourjes has been in Chicago during the sessions of the Repub- dean Convention, ‘The Saturday Reviow says of Swinburne's Intest produetion; «Surely tt Is not an un- faly or captious critielsm which aves In Loa Jasslus? 9 vast excess of sound over sense, —u prodigality of words which do not always in inuch express ag conceal the poet's meah- nyse Dr, Karl Brnnnemann, already well known As an authority on the French Revolution, hus just completed a blography of Kobes- plerre, which, lt. ts sald, will contain a good deal ot Information which lng never yetbuen brought. forward in previous works on the suine subject, Jumes J, Chapman, of Wouiington; will have rendy for the summer ov early untunn exercises & * Manualot Heavy Artillery Sery- Jee,” prepared by Maj. J.C. Tidbalf, ‘The yolume ig prepared for the use of both the Tegulir army and the militin, and has been ayiroval by the War Department ang Gen, W. ‘T, Sperman, Messrs, Cassell, Potter, Galpin & Co., the proprictors of tha Magazine of <irt, hnyo are ranged for aneagay on the subject of * Queen Victoria and Art,” to appear du the June is- sue. ‘Tho value of tha number will bo en- hanced by copies of sketches by both the uven nid the late Prince-Consort, perms: son having been glven for their reproduc- jon. ‘Tho New York Tribuno recently referred toncertain professional man who made the tour of Europe, being absunt three months, Ghpuusus weig whut Si, He Wau. aa ar Oxpenses We 1 y ren) r north as the Hebrides, and as fur south ag Naples and Pompell,—giving five weeks to Tolan Wales, Seotfanty ard England; five more to Holl France, Germany, Switzer- lund, and Ituly,. ‘Tho story of this extundod but economleal trip, under the takiog, title, “Outdoor Life in europe,” now published by LK. Funk & Ca. New York, will give A writer in the Nation of June 10 charges that all of the article entitled Popular.Fal- lactes About Russia,” in the June number of the North tmertcun Ieulew, except about thirteen Lincs, was copled almost, verbatim from Cobden’s essay on “ Russia,” and cop- fed withouteredit. ‘The char, one, and fs apparently proves tlons quoted, The London Bookseller is the Intest au- thority to trip over Ragkin's “ Notes on the Constructlon of Sheep-Folds” (Church-gov- ernment), the new edition of which It enters as an agricultural book, ‘Chis causes 0 cor- respondent. of the ead to recall tho eniry of “Curions Adventares of a Field. "Inthe London Catalogue of 1878, Field-Sport." William Black, the novelist, was born in Glusgow, and fs noav In his 40th year, Ile never went to college, but served asa Journal- Iston the London News. He is anf to bo i oshrewd, praetical man. | Ie lives at Briehiton, where his beautiful hoase over. looks the ocean, Ie makes a business of writhhg stories, and makes about $25,000 a year from his writings. M. Paul de Musset, the poet's elder broth- er, dled n few weeks ago at the age of 76, Ho began to write historleal novels In 18%, brought out two plays In 1858 and 1857 with but little suecess, and four Hears, ago pub- Ushed Ute of his brother, whom he had de fended in “Lui eb Elle” against George Sand’s allusion to her rupture with Alfred de Alusset in her “ Elle et Lut.” is 1 serious yy the illustrae ef . HOOKS RECEIVED. A Famous Vicrony, Chicago: Jansen, Me- Clurg & Co, Tnwovoita; or, Star by Star, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. Price $1.50, Hanvew's Hanr-Houn Srires: Mrs. Avsrin, By Margaret Veley. rice 25 cents. Daruxs. A Novel, By“ Rita." Philadelphia: J.D. Lippincott & Co, Price $12, Sctunce Puumns—Intropucrory. By T. H. Huxley. New York: D. 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A hia- tory of England, from the earliest times to the Revolution in +1683, Based on tho history of Dayid Hume, Continued to the Treaty of Ber- Uinin 1878, Revised nnd Corrected by J.8. Brow- cr, M.A. with an mopeniix by the American ed- itor, New York: Iurpor Dros, Large Lmo, SH pp. Cloth, $1.0. ART. ART NOTES, Rosa Bonheur was once apprenticed toa dressmaker, and so was Sarah Bernhardt, The art department of tho Chicago Inter- State Exposition of this fall is to have an fl- lustrated catalog, a At theart oxhibltion at this year’s St, Louls Fhir a prize of $1,000 will be offered for tho best tandscape by a local artist. Bastien Lepage, the young Parisian artist, hag painted the Prince of Wales ina rich costume of the Sixteenth Century, Tho South Carolina Legislature has ap- propriated $15,000 for a bronze statue of Gen, Daniel Morgan, the hero of Cowpens. Miss Harrlet Hosmer 1s busy In completing a work which she wishes to get off her hauds before returning to America to stay for an in- definit time. ‘The first eleven days of tho current Paris Salon produced 89,000 francs. ‘The corre- pnding perio of last year’s exibition pro- uced 68,000 rrincs. ‘The portralt of John Shennan, of Ohio, for whieh the New York Chamber.uf Commerce give the order to Daniel JLuntington several inonths ago, has been delivered and hung in the chamber. ‘Tho oficers of the New York Etching Club forthe year are: President, R. Swaln GIt- ford; Seeretary, Henry Farrer; Executive Committee, Charles Miller, Frederick Diel- nin, and BS, Church, A collection of over 2,000 Roman, Greek, and Exypthin colng jiay bev presented to ure Metropolitan Musvum of Art by Mr, doseph W, Drexel, ‘There are fourteen gold eves wind $48 of silver, the rest belng of ronze and wloys of silver and bronze, The fifty-(ifth- annuat exhibition of tho Natlonal Academy of Design closed on Sat- urday oventng last. ‘The recelpts at the door wers about 97,000, and from the sale of pict res S29,000,—a sum largely In excess of the recelpta from this sourca for the past few years. ‘Lhe judges, Messrs, Samuel Colman, Rich= ard M. Hunt, and E, C, Stoore, of the Prang Christinas cart competi tia, awarded : tho firat prize, $1,000, to Miss Rastna Emmett, of New York, for her design signed * LY * In primatur.”? The second prize, $200, was gly- nto M, A. Sandler, of New York. ‘The Artist Fund Society wilt start on its first sumimer-teipon the 2ist iist, ‘They take the river to Albany, the canal ta Niagure and return by rail, Te will be an ottalr o about ten days, ‘The canal-leet will consist of a “sleeper” cannl-bout, a gallery and re ception canul-bont, and 4 steam-tug. ‘fhe French art Journal, L’Art, has pub- Nahed oix drawings by Victor Hugo. ‘This is the way he composes, He says; 1 gener ally make usu of my Ink-bottlo os 9 pale! and thon, in order to make ny tints lighter, throw lialfa glass of water ovor my paper, pr sucrilics & faw drops of coffee to my draw- RB. . ors Mr, J. G, Brown,'of New York, has re- celved'a very handsome {peopnition at the London, Hoya! Academy, ‘The London mes says of hig “ Paasiug Show” (several stroet- Araba on the pavement, supposed ta bo look- ing at Barnum's pageant) that “There ts nothing tn the exhibition better than thiy une protending, Inconsplcuous cabinet picture, tho painter fs sittle, té at all, tnfurlor to ua in penytration of boy nature.” This » praise Is tho highest and heartlest over ro’ ceived by an erican exhibitor at the Royal Academy. SCIENCE. SCIENTIFIC NOTES, Tho University of the City of Pesth cole brated tts hundredth anniversary in presence of the Emperor on the 13th Inst, In the vicinity of Milan plie-dwellings havo been discovered in a pont-moor, and the Fovatatien ofa Roman theatra In tho city On April 1 a “Soclety for Zodlogy?” was formed nt Berlin, with a view,of furthoring zodlogical science and zovlogical research in all its branches, : it !s reported that Prof. Georgo L. Voso, of Bowdoin College, who is regarded as an authority upon such subfecta, says that 200 rallroad-pridges hi Saree, ges hove fallen within the past Ina gravel plt near the Town of Posen a mammoth-skull lias been discovered, but un- fortunately In pleces. . Most of the pieces, however, nro well preserved,—the facial bones alone weigh twenty-olght pounds, A scientific examination of the Ibaraki mountaln-range in Japan has resulted in tho discovery of marble of diferentcolors. Ono mountain is believed to bea mass of white statuary marble, and In another place black marble of the finest description was found. At Paris a society “contre Vabus du tabac” hins been formed, which Intends to combat the excessive Indulgence in smokin, which lins of late become the fashion in ae Inost the whole of Europe. Tho Society of- fers various prizes for treatises on the hu- man health and the dangers it'fs subject to from excessive use of tobacco, An ostrich, long on exhibition at Rome, having been suffocated by thrusting Its neck between the bars, thera were found in lta stomach four large stones, eloven smaller ones, seven nails, a necktle-pin, an envelope, thirteen copper colns, fourteen beads, ond French frane, two small keys, a piece of handkerchief, a silver medal of the Pops, and the cross of an italian order. An impoftant discovery $s stated to have been made in the neighborhood of Sydney, New South Wales, ring for coal has been golng on In Moore Park for ten months, and about the middle of March a quanity of oil inatter was observed to come up, one gus! fasting tinth ath anes alts fauid se belloved de kerosene, but the anal was not complete when the last mall lett According to the report of the Reglatrar Geueral, the fogs and frost of _ Candlemas, 1850, have killed more English people than have falien in any battle since Waterloo, Since the perlods of cholera in 1849, 1854, and 1604, no such death rate has been known, and it is estlnated that this fog-cloud has carried of 1,657 persons, to say nothing of those whose health has been serlously disabfed. It would not be supposed that sowage gas could exert any corroding influence on metals, yét investigations have shown that holes are worn ft lead and zine pipes bysuch | ran is tho guises, Ex most dangerous element, Such exhalations are the source of sorrow In many homes and exert their dleadly influence both by perforat- ing the pines which contain them and by then issuing through thesa apertures to mingio with the respired alr, Substantini fron pipes, Well ventilated aud carefully joined, are the best protection. Prof, Milne, of Tokef, Japan, nns_exerted himselt successfully to Interest the Japanese ollicials in establishing n suitable system of earthquake observation, as well as the Enro- beans in Japan,.who have lately formed a society for the purpose of systematically studying seismic phenomena. Mr. Sfilne has obtained the assistance of the Govern- ment In having {mmediate telegraphic com- munication concerning earthquakes, and - ho aims at getting from telegraph operators throughout the country information concern- ing earth-currents during earthquakes. A remarkable phenomenon was observed at Kattennu, near Trakehnen: (Germany), And In the surrounding district, on March 2, About half an hour before sunriso an enor- qnous number of luminous bodies roso from the horizon and passed in a horizontat direction from enst to weat, Somo of them seomed of the sizeof a walnut, others resembled tho Sparks flying from achimney. They moved hrough space Itke a string of beads, and hone with a remarkably brilliant light. Tho belt containing them appeared about threo patron Jn length and two-thirds of a metre in readth. - el er aicang M. Dumas, who has been examining - tho property of certnin metals [n_ occluding guses (suys Nature), has found that alu- miniunt may occlude as much as one and a hal€times its bulk of hydrogen and niso_ shows traces of carbonic acid. ‘Tie gases were given up when the metal svas_heuted ‘to redness under exhaustion. Magnesium behaves similarly. Were theso metals distilled In vacuo they could probably be obtained pure. It is possible that’ theso observations mity throw some light on tho anomalous behaviour of aluminium when used ns an electrode in the voltameter. . Of the 91,507 tons exported In 1878 from the quarries of Carrara and Massa, Ituly mado use of 33,081, of which nearly 3,000 were worked and carved. Sixty-one thousand two hundred = and clehty-3lx were exported abroad, of which nearly %000 were worked and carved. Carrara’ hing 387 quarries, 327 of which employ 36,050 work- men, besides 350 women and children who carry water to the workmen Jn the mount- aging, The establishments where the marble Js worked and carved eniploy about OQ wogs- men, Inand about Carrara itself theyp'are 147 studios und on Academy of Fine-crts. ‘The wages of the workmen vary fem 1 franc 8 centimes fur the attegry- men, to and 6 francs for “he sculptors, ‘The Carrara and Massa marbles are of several varieties, namely, sttune marble, veined marble, bardigiio, and cle: white,’ The first quality of statuary marbl costs from 400 to 1,000 francs per cighic ipetros the second’ quality costs from “250 to 554 francs; the velned costs from 160 to 550; bar- diglio frum 100 to 280; the firy quailty, of clear white from 250 to 230, aud the second quality 180, ———— BARDS AND THEIR SONGS—A DIALOG. . BON, ‘True poctry {a written 80 ‘That none {ts rent sense may know. If thoughta be vellod "neath tropes and sound, ‘Tho thronk will deont one’s mind profound, Cast to the winds prosoillans’ rules, As only fit for aplab fools, And aeck by an eccontric song ‘To fascinate the thoughtless throug. Muke yoursong lengthy. Hy its longth Some peoplo Judge a puem's strongth; And those who pruno and much confens Disploy thoroby a luok of sense, * YATURL Your maxims, which I've read before, - Are worthy of a Julia Broaeo} Tut Ziomds Moore, who pondorcd long. Had Inughed at your Ideas of song, Bro f woukd cast aside tho rules Long taught in alt tho famous schools, T'd learn If cach were a protenge, Oe janaied a {bo deepest ponte, Aone who takes some pain: sea, What men call {awa of prosody gS Rouge not beneath enchunter's stroke, Hut grew with slowness, 08 an ouk. ‘Thinkers and echolurs, year by your, Have held these laws not chcap, but dear; For Ilno by line, with caro and thought, Keen-siguited men to make thom wrought; And in tho song iteolf thoy found What they with care In inws bavo bound. Nor can We abrogate a inw Without of sense or sound a Haw, At least ton yours did Virgl! write Upon his opie great and bright; And Tonmyson, bhi eer rhyuios, Howrites them fully Cweuty tes, Writ clearly whe you havo to writes For mun beat sees the roses bright When thore's no mist to Intervene And nur tho glory of the scene, If, with tho firu of Walter Scott ‘Tie verses which you write are hot, TDwepend upon tt, in euch verse Lurks Blundor’s laughter-waking course, Poetin fire is oft a light Whica dazzica its posscesor’s sight; And ono who ownd tho gift #0 rure Should prune bi songs with thought and cary Life ia at best igame of hours, Jn which proud Blunder bolds few bowors, Throw minor luws unto tho wind, And write with au unfettered mind. Huge or bowali, sinite or rejoice, But give tho heart ita native yolco; For affectution is 4 bune ' Which Gils judicious minds with pain, joxt usy the Liws of sony at once, Despite the on sage or dunce, ‘Tho ataateur iy often he Who sorlvbiecs with facility, And rushes headlong into print, Aud thers, of course, thore's “ nothing In'Le in fact, the gas from the Sbould ono condunse, and add, wand prune Fro the roso-month till yenigat Juno, rag Mig poomn stilt may not express * A near approach: apectec! ness, ‘What though your Huishod poems ajjue In murkots of “Philistine, ‘The product of your care nay be Uiiet ee Jogsrd MARION BAKER, f