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THE CINCAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1880—TWELVE PAGE NEW PUBLICATIONS, ~The Literary - Revolution. joat Ruccesafal revolution of the century, and, shaimarieats rendurn of buvks, tho whose impartar ‘ont books of the highest inst aro published by ts, ond prices nro low beyond compnrisan with the cheap. one Pooks over botore frau. “ro iiiatrate and demonstra those truths we sond ¢ following pooks, all compicta and ‘unabridged, postepald, ob the prices nateds Macaulay’s é PLoS Formor price, 81.3. Large. ior type, DOAULICUl prints price three cents, Hobart 3 carlyle’s $1.25. Largo br ort Burts, Former prico, 1.25. Largo bras Mle Siac bonuaittn prints price tives Genter Light of Asia Féwin Arnold, Former price, #0, Beautifal print, brovlor tyju; price tive cents, Thos. Hughes’ Manliness of Christ, Formor price, $1.00, Beautiful’ pelt, brovier typo; price three centa. 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How duped Twasl T thought the play’ 8 fact; Deceit hersolf 1 deemed the son) of honors (pe. thoy suemed tu) of talent and of thet— ‘hose smiling Lies thut flocked to waftupon her, ‘Well drilled they wero, andskilituily thoy played; Eneh held his own, in speach, or song, or dares jut. pee, too Bure, success nt last betriyed, And lo} Lauw tho whole farce ata glance, Ihold the strong glass, Itoagon, to my vyes, And what hid soemed so lovely and ao fulr Law in all its wrotehad, innde-np gulue, And turned away Ju pity and despalr, Put out tho'lights, and lot tho actors creop own the back stairs, and silent hide awry: here in the darkness thoy enn lie and weop At the poor profits of thelr played-out play. e Eta WHEELER, —————— Tho Nuljisied Indiana Amondmonts— Motives of tho Court. Dutlanapatte Journal, Sune 2 Courts of luw look at tho natural results and Probyble motives of human actions. An uct ts Supposed to bu dono to produce the result which itdoos produce, and to spring from the motlyosy which are Ikely to bave cauged it. Applying this rulo to the decialon of the Buprome Court overthrowing tho constitutional amendments, we submit that the following facta farnish proof mal the ‘Judges were actuated by fimproper oat 1. Tho fuct that tho Domocrutlo loadors de- sired the averthrow of thoamendinents. Proots heir otforts to detent them at the polls and the speeches of Gon. Manson and Bocrotary Shank- Un ta tho Hendricks Club. 2, The fact tit tho Democratic nowspapers Know before tho cause wus argued that tho umendienta would be overthrown, 3. The fuct that the sprig, election showed a Repudliewu majority of over U0 yotes, thus muking it plain that a fair election would give Indian to the Republicans, 4, Thut the Investigation of Senator Voorheos' ‘xodus Committee showed that the Kepubiicans Wore not iwporting yotes, and that only’tho Dernovratio party would suffer by wa constitue Honal provision protecting the ballot box. & ‘The indecont haste with which the opinion Was promulgated, whleb ean only be accounted for upon the hypothesns that Indiana must bo Bide an Octol Stato in order to influence tho Sincinnatl Convention, U. The fact that the only telegram sont to Cine atnnuti by Gov, Hendricks was one announcing the deelstion, and that it was sent in hot baste, 7. ‘Tho fuck thattwo of tho most active partl- sans of the bonch formally dissented, but wrote ho optalon, one of thom “being a delegate to Cinchnnatt, and un especial champion of Gay. Mondricks, % ‘The fact, that Mr. Ktco, Secrotary of tho Democratio Central Committes, was prsleling ry '@ room ndjavont to that occupled by tho Judges, and wus directed ta telegraph the news. ¥ The fuct that “5 yruve wid og directed the Secrotury to “telegraph the boys; thoy will ho ind to Know wbuut tty! W, The fuct that the policy of the Democratic leaders hus atways been to defeat all luwa ine tended tu secure tho purity of cloctions, and that the deetulon ts fn procise harwony with that Jong-eatnbllabed galley’. AL Tho fuct thut the reasons given for tho ronclusion reached ure so foeble tut even the uibine Kat olfer one word fu defense of the ginenl 1. Tho fact that the reasoning of the opinion desaweale ond shallow that no voice bas beon Fulsod In Its dofonse, LITERATURE AND SCIENCE, "“Memorios of My Exile”"—By Lonis Kossuth, tite Hungarian Patriot, Tho Egyptian Roligion—Diary of Madame D’Arblay—Lifo of Mozurt. The Undiscovered Country—Halt a Cen- {ury—Magazines—Books Received, Literary Notes—Art Publications— Art and Scientific Notes MEMORIES OF MY EXILE. ‘To many Americans tho namo of Louls Kos- suth is to-day only a memory, Dy the masacs both name and man baye been forgotton, Hs book Is lke a voloe from tho tomb, he has been altent so many years In this busy, noisy world, It Is nearly thirty yeara alnee he lunited on our shores ns tho Nutlun's guest. America then rang with the name of Kossuth. Associations Were tormed to uid the Hungarians to secure their independence. Ho was welcomed ns tho Tepresentutive of i republic strangicd to death bya violution of international law. Ils elo- quent voice was attentively heard by lstoning thousunds. Ho addressed deputations nnd mect- ings in Now York, Philadelphia, Maltiimore, Washington, and muny othor cities, urging tho avknowledyment of tho claims of his beloved land to indopendence and the interference of the United States jointly with England in bebalf of the principle of non-lntervention, which would allow the nations of Europe fuir play in & now strugsle for liberty. Hut Republican Franes beeune an Empire within a fortnight of his arrival here, and despite the goneral sympathy with und admins tion for him contribitions came in but slowly, His intended uprising in Hungary proved abortive, and he himself became and §s still an exile from his own land, Our Interest in Kossuth and in Hungary fs ognin awakened by tho appearance of the work to whieh he bas dovoted tho lit yours of his fe, entitlud, * Memorles of My Exil the first volume of which fs now before ts, aanitty £4 ik foreltile, earnest, aud cloquent writer, Hie pen faxtill vigorous, and bis cnergy tndininistied, Although denling Iurgely with the deeds of others, he telly cnough of himself to give pleasing personullty lo thls work. There ure no gosslpy. detalls of Court Ite, Hut ile story of alternating success and fuilura acquires a pa- thetic interest whon we sce how the failures: predomiinted, and how, despite bla allant: struggles, his Hungary remained an Austrian province aud Is stil ttrty ruled by the House of Hapsburg. In this book we have no biographical sketch. Kossuth docs not profess to have attempted: to write in autoblagraph Hie deserlbes Hun= gury’s attempts to recover ber logs autonomy, Of necvasity he dwells on the varkdtis Buropenn wars and tholr histories xo fur asthe Hungaria question nd any remote of direet cs with then, We kev bow, led by promises ney fultiiicd, hope alternated with despale In the breasts of the patriotic exiles, And nally wo nd in Louls Kossuth to-day the same noble patriotisin, the sume boidly-expresied butred of tyranny, the sume definice of the usurping power, the same confidence in a bright future, which have never deserted hin, and which nde him fora time the successful lunder ot his peo- ple, to whose vulee even now they listen eagerly und respectfully, His * Memories” will be rod with prot atid with Interest by thousands, While bis style [s peeutiar, somewhat over- rhetorical and redundant. nevertholess It is strong, passionute writing. Ho hus not produced A poplar history. Sut be hos furnikhed rich tnateriol for tho historian. He textes the hijgh- est of all moral lorsona, [1s own life points the tnural of his Memories of My Ext Home tine ngo THR TuvUNE published exe tructs from thls work tug the interview with Prince Louls Napoleon qufterwards Napo- Jeon ILL) whieh constitutes the most iinportaut part of those first chapters, Inanother purt of tho book Kossuth thus refera to his visit to America: “ Whon at Boston, twenty: L soven YeRTs NzO, stopped on the grand stutrcuse which leuds upto: ‘the superb butting of the Capitol, In the open portico of which stood, bureheuded, the Senittors and Deputics of ‘the State of Massachusetts, with thelr Presidents and the Governor of tha Ktatoat thelr héud, ln order to pay tho tributes of esteem and brotherly sympathyein my. per- son—to tho Hungarian uation, which hid suc- cumbed wider the welght of tho vloluted luw of nations, L pereetyed the triumph! arch erected fn front of the bullainy, bearhys the cout of arms of the Stato of Massachusetts, with this Inscrip- tion: *Enee petit placiduin sub Nbertate quictem,’ and undernenth It these words quoted from) one of my speeches: “* There faa community iu the destinica of hus manity “And tho Governor of that freo, cultivated, hoppy, tnodel State (In whieh thery ie not a single person whe cannot write, not a single paupor, not a slngic tuinble-down house) took me by tio hand, and, polnting to those words tn tho fa Gans free Henve ed me to tell my to trast in that sncred truth, and to be thivt the powerfil Republic of the United States would uct toward ber in accordanes with that siered truth, And this assurance was reGehoed: ‘by the acelamations, which reverberated through: the heavens, of hundreds of thousands of pede ple who lad gathered together for the ecendon, it refreshed nie, the homeless wanderer, to wit+ ness this galemn acknowledgment of the soll- darity between nations by u State the Lexis. lature of whieh, after’ baying well sitted the Hungarian cause, declared that our struggle: for independence was legitimate and just, that the Mussian intervention was a rude violution of —tuternutionnl law whieh ouzht to bave boon strongly. reprl manded by tho nations interested In preserving constitutional bury and that [twas the @uty and the interest of all constitutionnlly-governcd nations to enter Into tho closest relations with each other, inorder to be uble to unite tholr strength the more olfectintly for the repulsion Of the uttioks of despotisin.” In another cohe sums ip the occupations of Ils Ite us extlos “But even df wo did not consptro, atill, even now, In tho desert of frustrated hopes, ft appears to mo that, ns one of tho cusatxiians of tho Hun garinn banner of 1649, {t was ing duty, under tho eivournstances then provalling, ta Ker my oyes the pluses of the agitated Europeu voledno, lest {ts orupUon sbauid take me by 4ur- prise, ad, in conseqtonca of this surprise, ahonild pass away without being turned into whut tt might perhaps bey-un opportunity for my uutortunate country, The conncetions uristay froin this position belong to tho history of my Hto in oxite, T cannot say that) could have used these connectlons for the prictient good of my country, The events of the world have taken a dilferent turn, ‘The voluano, whieh hak shown ail the prognostica of a powerful erup= don extending over the whole world, was in ong pluco nppensed; in aecond placd it founda wifoty-valve; ina third plitco tt was got at rest by a partial outbreak; in u fourth place (ust wherv. our interesta were most identical) tho force of the yoleane was led into n proper chin= nel of strength by a powor wisely identifying ftantf with tho national nspirations,* ‘Thora diferent nnticipated “autbronke of the yolcano” wore tho alternations of hope and despair, Later on ho says in a sud, pathetic monary “This was tho sphoro of the patriotic oxer- tons of tho ffungarian refugees, Toeduy ail this belongs to the past, “Tho nation his devided diftcrently, . “Tt bas broken the shaft of that standard wiles wo curred so high on the rugged rouds of exila. . “T wrote to Francis Doak that the power tho Hungariin question possosiod, na fictor in potltlont! culeniitions, ‘wos «great nequisition, ag te surrender i ru Us aeriue.! + 1t wns aurronderod, “A Tungaruu question may extat; I beliove it dacs oxive bidden deep In boarts, but not Lo~ foro tho world. “There nro no longer Hungurian rofizoes. “T,with my sons und a fow faithful friends, and j alone—forsaken, solitary wanderers in the jovor! “To me, the old wandoror who has arrived at tha yorgoof bis grave, who hus ne hope in the future, und in whose past thore ia no consola~ lon, the conviction of iny henrt says that, as 7 was right once In tho controvurdy with thu ene- wiles of iny country, go am J now dn the diveralty of epiiion with my own mutons Dam right, “The »Judgu of the World’ will decide." Aud ina letter to. 4 member of the Hungarhin Parilainent, writton after tla Profuse wie pub- isnot, ae speaks somewhat bitterly of bis pres- jon: “*COLLEANO, AL Hannaccons, Nov, 19, 1870.— Dean Pusenn: You wore. kind enough to undor take the task of arranging my writhigs for the Press, Since thon, however, my position bis undergone n matorial chungo, to which it may bo your duty to call the reader’# attention. ih any Profuco and fn the *Suimorivs’ ubout to be published L appear asa inember of the Hunga- rian nation. This quufitieation we of pele a Hungariun, bowover, bus in tho just tow days mn turnod into an gouchronia law d " by the a the representatives of the | Thut Hungariun poopte, In. whose eluvation to the rink of clone T bad 4 mull shure, has chown representatives who have ile olded that hu who, though a born Iungarlin, Fualiies without suthorlaition tun yours ubriatd lows bis qualification as a Hungarian citizen unless: be ues home to become s member of a community, or uuless he predents himself at an Austro-Hungarian Consulate. What damuge, burny or diticulty would huvg reached Hungury it thla +dis-Hungarlantzing® law bad not beon voted, Ido nos uaderstiqaud Waat may be its sc, oF how It answers tho exigencies of modern zation to pass such Inwe, £ understand till “ Ttut tho Inw has been pissed. *Thave now been thicly years abroad, ant cortalniy not with the sanotfon of tha Austro- Hungarian Government, “[do not teknowledgo the present state of Hungary to he leglthnate, because It clashes with the inallenatle right of exlstence of the Hungarian nation. Leannot, therefore, become the member of 1 community, beenuse FT ahould thoreby incur obligations os a subjeet whieh are: opposed tomy national fegting of Justice, OF course Leannot present myself ton Austrian se fila nol neknowledge his sue rine, Twill not become itt Apustite, “Thorefore 1, as woll ne my children, will be- Jong to the omtensts, © Mong with rome Mingarinna wa are the only wen nj} over the world who are nol members of y We nee tho Parkin of the world, Bons, Who haye yet nlite before thom, after having, from tuve of thelr country, i the better part of it on a footing with : Sluves—I. v.. without Deli possessed of the rights of citlzens—will, nay, thoy must, look out for thomselvos not to renin Pariths of the world, [shail remain ong, se Tes wind wy: renders, therefore (If readers thore should be anel that where In these writ nah they meet with eas Hungurhin they put tho word ‘lat or the word ‘auteast’ beture it. Driven from the bosom of ty mother, L shall ree taliate i bearing unchangeable, fusthfil, Mal love unt my death. With kind compliments, Your friend, Louis Ke al ‘Those oxtricts will sufice to give some iden of (he yeneral scope of the work. Fetters, docus ments, amd speeches fll up its pres. Some Interesting fucts In connection with tha publication of bis Memories” are given ina {etter from an intimate friend of Kossuth’s, The writer suyss “There t4 n Iterury nesoolation (the Athe- nantin) in fungary, formed for tho purpose of providing wubstuitinl reading for the public at the least” poralble. price, Tho President and Secrouiry. uf -tho Assocation chine to Buraccone and persunded Gov. Kossuth to kell thom on part of bls | manuscripts, He consented by giving them the account of the elforts (ley at the Hungarian emigration, jit cluding all ig correspondence with. the distin- guished diplomuts interested In_ political ovents since the yenr 1834, . 0. ‘They patil hit 60,000 franes,—#10,000 fa gold. ‘Tha test 3,000 coples will belong to tho association (they bave exten- alye print! ig neues) Mnf the profits afterward will go to Kossuth, ‘Tie work will comprise twetvo volumes, ‘The first yotume will be ready: by dan. 1. Kossuth’s sors have bountl them- aclyes, in case of their father’s death bufore tho work {3 finished, to complcte the rest, The salt of translation Into French, English, and is thorlty oF mille rit. min ts. re This serangement wilt kive Kossuth atout 10,000 franes {icone for tho romulnder of hie life, AM thesy things nniko dim very ehuertal, and be ls working awiy with: a great denl of energy, Ho feels that he [s not forgotien.tnd is able to impurt useful informa- fon to many," Kossuth wWoa In many re epects vistonory; but Jn bls patriotism: he was shicere and honest. The revolution he ted was.a revolution of the aris- toeracy rather than of the inisses, | Rut he was not it gellish sehe: revking to gratify his per- gonul ambition. His impulses and alis wero patriotle. The wisdom of bis plans was often questioned. His. motives never. Americans took nn iinpifaive interest [n the man, Tix re- ception was xecond only to that given to Late cette. fut thelr sympathy and enthusiasn brought forth no prictieal trulta, Ills * Mein orles" bolong to History. And Hlstory will know how to uppreciate aid to use thet, (Memoriesof My Exile, Uy Louts Kossuth, ‘Transiuted from the original Hitngerion by Forenoz Juuaz. Paria. and IL) Standard Sere fom mad York: L it. Punk & Co, Price 40 cents, : TINE EGYPTIAN RELIGION, Tho religion ofthe aneient Exyptians has heen long alecursed by studenta of antiquity with a great variety of judgments. The more reeent discoveries since the decipherment of tho hieroglypliiog have shed much light on this sub ject. Amoug tho more relinhle Exyptologista of our day {8 M. Le Page Renout, who huis huely delivered the second eeries of the Hibbert lect- urea in Buglund.’ These tectures bave Just been published 1p this country by Charles: Seribner’s Sous in nu small volume of 270 pages. They con- sutute one of the most vahiuble contributions ‘to our knowledge of thé Rgyptian religion that have appeared, ‘The yolume will greatly atd nll students of ancient religion, and ought to have aeplace inevory good library. «No -clergyman. should be-without It. Of course, all the opinions: expressed hy the fearned author are not to be neeented Without question; UL Iy most respects: hls views are well forties « ‘The Urst foaturols occupied with “The Sources of Intormation- Respecting the Auclent Bgyptinn Roligion.” In this tceturo the author shows how the curly Christin and heathen writers fell {ute error.in retition to this subject, and how grontly tho world ta Iudehted.to the recovery of the ancient Buypthin: language for 0 butter knowledgo of the Bipentiuy religion, siice most of the texts that have been deciphered are Yonnd to be of tt rollyious chumoter, The aecund lecture.ts duvnter to 0 very tnter= eathid’ and instructive disonssion of the ine flyulty und characteristics of Ryyptlan elviliza- tion. “fr'thix lecture the ‘authur endeavors! to show that the Reyplan monarchy dates back more than 3,000 yenrs before Christ; also, that the ancient Egypiiins were not of Southorn Alrican orkgtn, and Uit they must have oven. pled the valley of tha Nile tans thousands of years before Moses, On this lust polut his can= clualons must be recelved with caution, bait as thoy aro on tho borings hear the Nile that wore imuido some years go, the reMiteot whiel have beon earnestly disputed, In the Inter part of this second Jectnre M, Renout produces evl- denees of the high moral principles Chat were figulented umons the early. Eyyplians, such ts the duties of linpartlet juatee, truthfulness, Kindness te the needy and suifering, obedience: topurents, und of tho motives for the falthful alisel nities that were drawn Crom the owed. by Gud upon the upright. Tn the third lecture wo have a onretil consid> eration of the zods of Egypt. Under this bend tho tuthor motives the temples and worship of yptinns, and presente come new views fn (to the poly thet, pantholem, und mono- nof the pudple xe ‘diferant periods. He however, With moat lite authors, that ost ancient religion was monotheistic He reduces many of the diyhulties to one by the hy- pothesis that the names were dilterent, while the gine puta sree bata ely ‘Tols leotura. {6 *ex- yvitunble. The “fourth lecture, on communion with tho Aungeen Workt, Mfords unmistakable proofs that In all nges the people Lelleved Inu iife beyond tho present, alse in augulle ws. Tho withor do& not attempt to explaln tho great diiterence botween the Hyeution teachings In regard tothe facts of the Invisible wortd and the remarkuble reserve of the curfier Lebrow writhigs, The subjeut of the fifth fectuce ix, * The Re- Ugtous Books of Ezy) he majority of the ammauseripis whieh have been recovered fi the tombs contain elmprers of tho collection genondlly the title of Tho Bouk ofthe Dead?" These chapters were at tirathand- rn by tyadition, bue have been lowe aluce Ho writhing, and hive been “prese dpyras rolts, or inacrtbed on collins, ilohral wrappings, tnd the wally nis book of the dead ix wholly reli, fram itwe lonrn that the anolent Egyp while belloying in future rewants and 'p ments, Uhl not hold to any doctrine of purgn torlal sutteriny nfter deuth, The other ancient: books are of Uttle value, ‘The last lecture furthor conaldors “ Religious Books and Hymns: tlenothelsm, Pantboian, wud Materialism. Henotholsin Is to be dike tinguished trom monucthalsimn, “Bach gad," says Max Miller, 1s tothe miml of tha supe miiant tis good as nll the gods, He ie felt at the fie waa rent divinity, msaupreme and ntsolutay {anita of the necessiry Iinttations which. to. our mitula plurality of gods must entuil onevery single gad, AIL tho rest disappenr trom the vision, «6 and he only who dH to Falfitl thoir desires stands tn tull light before the vyes worshi pet ‘This peculiar: phaso or’ relilous thought apnenr in dome of the early Bxyp hyinns, 1h othor hymiuy tho doctriue.of ade God seems to he diatinetly and emphatically enut elated. In tho course of his Inat lecture M, Ronout ondeavars ‘to: disprove the supposed comtnunity of origin between the Rastorn aid tho Euyptlin teligions. ‘Tho reseantilit thom ho attributes ta the. thought In the human mind e On tha whole, this new volume ts among tho Innat Inatructive thit we have litety mot with, ‘The publishers have dono youd sorviey in the Ine tradugtion of It to the Amerlvan publle, Thy Orin und Growth of Retlon, as Thus. tented by the Heligion of Ancient Kuyt. ly P Lo Pago Honout, [The Hibbert Lectures for I87U,) ‘ew York; “Churles Sovitner's Sons, Prioo $1.50,) LWP DIARY OF MM IYARBLAY, Mme, D'Arblay, or Frances Burney, was born in England in 176, und is colobrated us the author of “ Byulina,” a novel of London fueh- fonable te, published in 1778, and which Lord Macaulay suys was “tho finit talg written bya woman that ved or avserved to live Tho “Diary and Lottery” are now frat given to tho publig fn an American edition, having beon published in England, after bor deuth, in 1843, and being almost, 1f not entiroly, out of print, Tho “Diary” opens with the publication of “Evelina in hor 2oth yoar, nud comes down to 184, when sho died at the ngo of 88, Shu speaks of it bersolf as “a journal in which | shall confess every thought,—shall open my whole heart.” 1t is, therefore, 0 yruphio record of her own ovanttal life in Tandon, at the Court of Queon Churlotte, und in Prunes, and gives us valuably pictures Of the manners and customs Of hor tines, with numcrota unccdutes of oun- fomporury celobritios, In tho Kdlabury Review an 143, Macaulay wrote an admirable roview of thie work, “Jt ‘In for tho mast put weltton in hor casiicst and Jicat manner,” by suid, in trae wouun's English, clear, natural, aud ively." OF hee Sterary worth ho dQ; Mine Burney did tor the English novel whut Jeromy Collier did tor tho Ruylish drama, and sho did it Ina bet. fer war oe first khowed that a tale lulght be written, in which both the fushiongble and the vulgar side of London milsht be exhibe ited With great forces, and with broad come humor, and yet which should not contain ao slugly ling dnconsistent with rigid morality or oven with yirgin delicuoy, Most of tho popular novels which preceded 'Kyellua' were such as nolady could have written, aud many of them ‘were auch ad no lady could, without confusion, she had read. The J in horror atnong religious people, Miss Burney took uway the reproneh whieh lay on a most urefal and delighttul Hpoclee of eoinpoal= tion, Her apiwarance: fean Important epoch In our jiterary }atary,”” IL 1s pnposlble to add anything to this merited Prise front the muster-band of Enutind's hise torinn, As years have rolled on novel-welters have moitipiied, and amuty tho mucersatul compoters of worka nt fletion aren own that ry name pf novel was the munes of many of tho oth elles” and Ce Jatt They now toned. fut the upon thom wie none the est nerited then, nor was Mies Burnuy's Ute to the fest rank among femite novelists questioned. The skatehes oF Ife and real eharneter in ber’ Olary and Le will siways have a peeuliie hari and retain 9 firm holon prbile Of portions of them We iniy, parliaps, becomesomnewnat weary, pare Helariy of the muirrative after the death of Johison, and the profixlty and repetitions af des tills aad untmportant Incidents i her Court lite in ntiendance on Queen Charlotte. ut tho ter portion of these two volumes fs Intenses rating, tho style natural and unfettered, tho egotisin pardonible and to be expected, Many much more pretentious works fave con- talned loan instructive matertal and canteibated Jess to the reader's pleasure. “She tved ta bea clussic, ‘Tine set on her fatne before she went henee that seal whieh is lois Bel except on the fume of the departed.” St is strange that the work should never until now have been ree printed in.an American edition. (Diary and Letters of Mine. D'Arbiny. Ro- vised and Edited by Sarah Chaunce! colsey. In Two Volumes, Bostont Hoberte liros, Price ‘Oe —_— MOZART, Dr. Nobl's “Life of Mozirt" was first pub- lished in two vulumes. 1t wus, and is still, one of. the best and fullest of the many lives of tho great musician publisbed,~Outlichell's work ranking first ng tho standard authority, A popular series of blogruphies of great men, enutled “Biographies Uulverseties”" having been undertaken and succes«fully matnininest, Dr, Nobt condensed bis work to corres port with the other publications of tho genes, and the Uttle volume bofure ng $3 a translation of thyt shorter Life of Mozart. sireuti= gtinces We lave in exe y nectrate wid Tnteresting popular work, one thoroughly read> Atle and enjoyable, | and furnishing all thit most renders | have thy tine to digest onbout one — of grentest of th the worli's great, men. The last popular book on the sume subject that we remember to have seen Wits H KOFLOT romance hy Ran, very charin fugly written, but idealizing the theme and Necessarily omitdng any of the fiets whieh nee Hecossiry tou proper understanding and appre- elution of the diiticulties and troubies that beset. the composer's lite, Mozart hus often been compared with othor reat men, Bbakspeare, Githe, Heethuyen, aystin, ete. but the truest paraltet of all ts that him and papal. AL writer, alanis himself "C.F. 1," in a recent publication, draws an apt comparison between the two, and says: “Tu the works of both we adinire tho sume inuryelous beauty dnd refinement, the nie pure harmony and. Ideal truthiudiess: we iso recognize tn the two ten the sme detight fn creation, which made them each fresh work on Knered: task, and the ame gratitude to their Maker for His diving gift of geutus. Tho jntuence of eueh upon hlsart was dinmensarebie? ns ininting bas but one lauphact, go mattsie lus but life we are str vith his extraomd(> nary genius and his wonderful nattral abilities, Dutulse with the pationce nud severity of his studlus to develop his talents, He was niet cons Tent to be considered a phenomenon; he amed from tho stirt to ben master, He was not only fn easy and prolife composer; ho was algy first aunong Lhe performers of hts cline. stife of Mozart, to which the publishers have given sueb a charming drese thit itis at- ne Mozart.” In rereading bls | Hunt—v., tractive to tho eye ns well ns tothe mind, fa the first of nse! of similar works, of whieh “Hoetho Will probubly cumo next, ‘Tho work of the transtiter hina apparently been carefully and faftatully doy (Blogruphlesot Musichins: Mozart. Ty Louls Noh” Wrupshited hy Jed, Lnlor. Chieagu: Jungon, MeClurg & Co, Price $1.23.) HALY A CENTURY. Mra. Jane Grey Swisshelm—n Indy needing no Introduction to rexders of ‘Tun Trinvxe—hus Just published a book of nearly 400 pages, with the nbove ttle, lt embraces an secount of her Stirring, aetive life, with Incidents connected with tho most distinguished men and women with whom she has come in contact during the lust ty years. Mrs, Swixshelim states the ob- ick of hee book, which is of course mainly lograpbleal, in tho preface: “I'o supply one quota of the inside tiatory of the rent Abolidon War is the primary object. af this wor! . . Another olgect je to give ni » history of tho hospiinls durlyg tho War of the Rebellion, A third object 19 to give un. unalyels of the ground which pro- duced tha Wonun's iighte agitation, and tha cnuses which Jinthted Ita Intinence. A fourth ts to flustrate: the force of education and the Inutability: of hunny choracter, by i personal Narrative of one who, fy Tis, would have broken 2 engagement rather than permit her name to appear in print, even [nthe announeement of Innrriges and who, by 185), had we much news- paper-notoricty ag uny mit of that Cine, and was singularly indifferent tothe pratee or blame of tha press." bedtrrying out these objects Mra, Swisshedin basnebioved aievoss to a muwked degree ty regurd to the fourth object. and bas a Interesting story in connection with tho xecond, RUE @ Century lea very readable book, ‘The author's vigorous style 1s well known and properly uppreelated, and Mn the volume be fore us whe Is at her beat. We mlght quote matt futeresting pages, but prefer recommending the hook to the atrention of thos: who, being inters. ested In the weiter, will feel a natural Imerest In the history of her works [cr experiences have: been varied nnd excithag and ber narrative belds the reader's utte dtalt a Conta Chicngo, Prive $1. THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY, We havo reeelved the advance sheets of Mr. Howells’ Inst story, which [4 concluded In this month's Alantie, A multitude of readers have alrendy pronounced their opinion npon it ag thoy engerly read chapter nfter chapter In slow serial forin, It fs a grand, good novel, and an admirable one, Mr, Howells’ style is always charming, Hach of his books, with possibly two exceptions, lins been tore attractive and (iter esting than Ite prede wor, Lhe bright play of the little * Wedding Jour- fon to the close, i Jane Groy Swissheliu, Tmor and tiet hn ney": follawed by tho Improbable yet ao naturally-drawn | situations In the “bidy of aN ronatouk. his deliehtinl hooks aftr peculiarly thelr own, a1 yy Sy itt Ws “Sketches,” + T Country” fan ndvnae we are invich inistuken If it does not rank a8 hls bost work. ‘The niotif of the story ts entirely new andorighial, but none the lesdé Interesting. ‘Tho treatinent of Spiritualism [6 ninaterly, and inthe deseription ot life nino, tho Shukers thelr peculiar tenets are most adintrably abated, and, by the mode of etaten vondemued, Mr. HowelJs haan marvetons freulty for observing wand rare skill fndeptctlig character ang deserd)= Ing sconery. ‘These quulitics hu phiced the wuthor among the first of American novaliats, His last work will not detract from his well- ‘enrned fame, Tho defects in the plan or short- comings {0 treatment do not jmpatr the interest felt by the reader fn tho gradualdovolopmiont of me nuverod bi é the ator (rhe Undiscovered Country. By Willlam D, Howells, Heaton Houghton, Mittin & Co. Price $1.50, MAGAZINES, + Trentano's Monthly for Juiy 14 filled with dla- cusstons of topica upproprinte ta tha season, ‘Tho Nitto, Canoving, Athletics, Aquatics, Yacht- dog, Buso- [ell Billiards, Chess, aud kiitdred sube jects are handled by. thogo who understand their themes. Archery and Bieyeling buye depart ments to thomsolvos, Hrentanu'a t4 tho best magnzine of outdoor sports, for geutlemen, in this country, —Polter’s Amertean Monthly for July prosents ita readors with tho fatlowing list of articles: “Tho Search of tho Antiquary "s “Clyitization ys, Nature": © Aimorlon's Bong Composers—X1V, James G. Clark"; “Cathedral and Cathedral y The Mystery of a hia Rover ‘owns,”” 15 Ly © Authormhip and Literature, Ato's vimegos s+ fwellors in MTodee ater": “Notes and Querica® Tome and jocluty "3 Literature ind Art” it mt Humor.” Muny of thous articles aro quite fully Alustrated. —The leading articles in tho American Naturw- fat for July aves "Tha Uso of Agriculturn For tllvars by the American Tudlins and the Early Knglish Coloniste," by G. Hrowne Gooden; 4 Skewh of Comparative Enthrgoloty LV. ‘The Etnbryolowy: of Sponges.” by Churies Bodgwlok Minot; © Liat of the Uirda of the Willamette Valley, Oregon,” by 0.8, Jabnion; * A Botunist iu Bouthern California,” by Joseph P. dumes; © Progress of Atmericdn Carolnolugy 11890," by: J, 8. 1 lngaley und Tho Structure of the Rye of Trilovites,” by A. 8. Packard, Jr reputation alreudy: uequired by this excellent retodical, Ite table of contents is full and ine Teroating, and tho articles woll-cousiderod and ably written, Among the toples treated In the current nuniber aru: Tho Great Hronge God"; “iow Dr, Whitnuun Saved Orvyon Legend of Conhulin’; © Fomale Boho ton; * Tho Interoceauly Causal Naval Resources of Chlua"; “Seven Letters"; “The Death of the Hun"; Btrulyht Manzinita; “A'Mountuin Fire"; “Tho Frotestaut Hero of the XVIL Century"; and utbura, —Tho Atlantic Monthly forJuly contains: “Tho sintwuter'Teuody, XLV-XVI, by Thomas 1, Aldrich; “Sho Balfron Fly—a Legend of Brit- tany," by Rosa Terry Cooke; * Tnotduuts uf tho Capture of Richmond,” by Deon P. Shopleys S'hrown's Retreat,” by Auina Bleaberg; © Passe ing," by Alice W. Lrotherton: * Wintering on atau,” by 8. B. Langloy; “Unutulditment,” by Frances f, Bushnell; +A roneh Camio Dramas tist,” by J, Ui Matthowa; “Confederition YJ, Drander ia Canada," by Frederic G, Matbor; “Remiuls- concos of Wushingtou—V., The Van Buren Ad- Suluistrutlon, 281s"; " Becords of We 2, —The CalYarnfan for Juty muintalns tho high | feury C. Angell: “Tho Unillscoy- tasty [LoXXVITL, by W. D. How. King Lear econd Articlé}-Plat and Pere by it. Grant “Home Recent joy * Ameriean Colonial History "3 "Shere en's Diderot"; © Litertture for Sehoola” Mind u ie Lower Animals"; “Tho Contributors’ jab." —The table of contents of tho North American Review for July $a08 follows: © Prince Hisinnrek agit Friend of Amoricy and ag a Stttesman.” by Moritz Husehs “Canna and the United States," by Prof, Gollwin' Smith, 1. 1 Th of Tsraal,” by 8.0. Hartie dent of Dirtmouth Coll House af, fart + Th ry T ered ( a ells: “The nstlish B. Thorold Rovers, leaot Sex,” by Misa M.A. Hare “The Panueon Caml” by Count Ferd. nund de Lessept, Member of tho Institute of r 3 and “ Protlizacy in Fiction—| I's ‘Nata’; 1 Outda's, *Mathias! by ALK, Fiske. Of those urticies, Mr. i¢ Itkely to be wiles ly rend and fi oraiy approved ot for its clear and frank criticisms on some of niclous tendencies of light Mlerature of the Present day, —Tho conmopniltan quatity of tho magazines of the prosuut day 1d a noteworthy fet. Tn Serthner Cor duly, for Instance, we notion A pie Peron The Nutwewian Port and Dramatis ura rine iéruson,” by his former country man, 1alinar forth Boyeeens an article dee serintive of an excursion to“ Tho Heart of the Crilfornin Ape hg coun Muirs he Cones: Island,” by William I. Blehops Rusain Is treat edof in Bugene Sehuster's “eter the Great's the scene of © The Grandlssmes” ts lald tn Lone isinna; Gen. MeClellitn wives an neeount of his trip to Silly: George Parsons Lathrop, In” The Sorcery of Madjoon,” writes of the curse of China,—opluin-enting: the negro element fs touched on in Miss Hopkins’ amusing little rketel core M,. Grunt does full justicu te “Canada's Ernest Ingersoll writes intercstingly of Denver, Col; and Charles F, Thwing gives an aerountot the experience of The Japanese and Chinese Students in Ainerica"; whilo Stra, Laura Winthrop Johnson travels all over Eu- rope in “fs Sonnambulin"” St. Nicholas for July has a patriotic flavor Appropriate to the season: and, in un article written and tluateated by Mr. Daniel Beard, (6 wile tho bay and girls how to celebrate the Fourth of July with ¢ Paper Baltuons.” Th frontispiece Huxtrates a strri i Hevojutionnry Wart youn Ellaabe Saving a Fort” garrisoned by af against FO) Tndians under a Tory leade: in a pletire of the hervie deed of a young drigoon—one of Pil Kearney's famous Twenty i the Mesteun War. The career of the brave and noble Montgomery—one of the Generals of thea Revolutionis told by George J, Varney, who writes of hin and * The Cunndian Patriots of Mury Wager Fisher's stary of “Ton Antl-Fird-Cracker | Leayite" "pu gests on” plensnnt way for lve bors and iris to celebrite =the“ Glorlous. Fourth” appropriately, without fire-crackers, There a n short Kory of life In w Southorn State, by Frank It, Stockton; another of life in Australia, with in picture of a lad's nurrow es- cape fromthe fury of the bluek natives: anda story of n sinall but lively Htue New Engtand chatter-box, ontitied *Duive Durden and Little Mr. Hobe,”’ and itustrated by Poi, Latngre Number LV, of “The Major's {sig-Talk Stories tells of “A Seesaw in nn Elephant-Pit, nnd hag two pictures by. Mee Vicknr, Of the two serials, both illustrated, “Jnek and JiL" by Loulsi’ M, Alentt, bins this month an inatillment of strong and tonder in- terest; and “The Fulrport Nine” hoss.of Nowh Brooks organize a militia eo anes tive @ ban- ner presented to thom by * tho kudles of Fi port,” and have an exelting the among thon solves while building a “guinp" in the woods. LITERARY NOTES, Mr. Julian Hnwthornoe hus thoughts of going to Japan next nutumn, —Mr, B.A. Freoman, the historical writer, haa been nominated for Rector of St. Andrew's University. Mrs. Jane G.Austia 1s credited with tho au- thorship of the lntest * No Name” novel,“ Birs, Beauchamp Brown.” —The publication of Probie’s “ History of the United States Flug” bas been postponed until Septeimber, when aubseribers muy expect thetr copies. Hurst & Diackott have In press “ Monsicur Guizot In Private Life,” translated from. tho French of his daughter, Mme, De Witt, by Mrs. Sknypson. —A copyright cago in Cauada has been de- elder to tho effect that the Atneriean reprint of the “ Bnoyelopistia Britantiea" can legally bo sold in the Doutinion, Inemitan & Co, publish n eecond and vai improved edition of Archbishop Treneh's wy on the Life and Ganlus of Cald- erun,” frat issued In 18, —Dr. Schliemann 's now superintending at Lelpzig tho publication of bisgreat work " ills.” ‘Tho work fs toappear next wutumn tn English, itt Lontton and Now York. —Prof. Sayed Js prepuring a book on the his. tory.uf the decipburnient of the, cuneiforin seriptions, which will be published by the Dele- wutes of the Chirundun Pryas. e. number of tho “Tumbbldt Lt- brary of Sel vo hus been receiver It con- tains Belfour Stewart's ciminentl; popular work, * The Couservation of Energy," with all the original Nustrations, . —Hammnersly & Co, of Philadelphia, will nub- sh. wbout Sept. 143 Naviel Eneyclopiedlay” in an imperil octave volume of ucurty 1,000 pages, No work of this kind has evur been known be- fore in this or nny other country, —G. P, Putnam's Sons have in preparation gtit] qotlieg” edition of Irvine works, to bo culled ©The Spuyten Devil Eaton.” making twalve yoliunus, und selling nt $12 the lowest price at which this author bias yet been provided. ~Mosars.Slinpkin, Marshall & Co., London, are about to pitblish a book on arent mimo xhooting anid the hunting folds of tho world, by Mr. Rows land Ward, F. 2.8, ‘Tho work treats also of all Hetulls of preserving trophies of nutural hls ‘ory, ~The ge -—Mr, A. Lang's “DBnilades on Blue Chinn,” whieh are annonnced for iinmediate pudlica- Hon, are inn variety of ald Frenet: forms, and tho toples range trom roulette to the choice of f aepulebre. There uro two “ballades"™ in Beotch, ~A volumo of poems with the title, Echoes from the Orlent.” by Sir. Rdwand King, an Atnerioan Journalist, whose works, * The Souths ern States" and “French Politleal Leaders," have recefved favorable notice, fs aunouneed fn Landon. ~—Dr. Kencaly, Intoly decensed in England, bee quenthed his private [lbrary, one of tho lirgest nnd richest fn the country, to the Britieh Mus eeum and St. John’s College. Dublin, with pare cular directlons us to its division between tho ‘two inatitntions, Tho flrat and second “tomes have appeared in Varta of tho *uvees Comploteg do Victor Hugo,” a thant" edition, to Le comprised in tore Wy great quurty volumes, M. Pau the bibliographical editor, and he has made his text from the original MSS. Ibis stated that when M. Ronan hus finished the volume on Marcus Auroljus, which ta to cons olde bis kerics of the “Origin of Chriatinnity,” nte himaell to writing n history af tho Jowa, and hopes to bring the work within the compuss of three volumes, —Thore are throw new volimes In Max Miil- Jer’s colosanl work on *'Dhy Snered Rooks of tho Bost" (Mnemilian & one of which invludes the “Ingitutes of Vishnu.” In one of the ourller volumes tho “Teuehings of Cuuthana,” fates aie Arnold based bls * Light of Asia,” was printed, ? —Among tho Jatcat purchasca for the Eyerton Library of Manus ies in tho Heitish Museum fen rare copy of the “Divina Commedia” of Dante, small folio, on paper, written in tho year 1a, formerly in the possession of Sir Anthony Pantaat. Tho vole bus boen coplously une Tate by various banda and at diferent poriod —A nearly complete set of Turnor's “Liber Studiorum'? ia thought to bo of sutllefent line Portince jn Bngtand to require a special advers tacineut of ttwarte, At store fin Now York there fs 8 sot entiely complore, contalning seve enty-one plites ih soven large follos, the” prive of which 16 $1,200, This set waa made up for Sr, Russell Sturgis by Prof, Charles Uitot Norton, of Harvard College, and is tn tine condition. —Tho National Temperanco Boclety has Just published, in pamphlet form, an address Intel, dotiverca ft Congress by tho Hon, Charles i. Joyee, of Vermont, a membor of the House of Iteprosontatives. Tt tat plea in favor of a Com- mbdafon of inquiry, and isa very thorough dis- emalon of tho alcobulle tiquor-tramle, (ta vtteuts up tho business Interests of tho country, Upon the genural weltnre of the people, and the duty of Congress In retation to It. —There 18 4 yood story told of Douglas Jerrold, who wus ¢ ited by Mr, Bentley, the publist- or, as to the thie of a periodical which he cons templated, and which was afterward well known. *f think of calling it The Wits Mis- eciany,” Bald the publishor. Jurcold demurred: on tho score of madeaty, to whieh Mr, Hontloy Replica. “Woll, suppase wo cul} it Bentley's Aflacelainy?" “'Thoro,” retorted Jerrold, “you neodn't wo totho other oxtreme."" —ltobert Clarke & Co,, Cluolunatt, 0. have in propurntion and will shortly-publiah a prose volume by John James Piatt, culitled "Pon elled Fly-Leayes,”" consliting of a varity of Gasys and skotches on attractive subjects, “The volume will cloac with a longer paper, *tlow tho Histop Bullé [ls College tn tho Woods," presenting a komowbut detailod sketch of the foundation of ; Kenyon College by Philander Chase, the curlivst placopal op of Ohio, =r, Laurenco Ollphant Is engaged upon a book ta be entitled “The Land of Gilead,” in which bo will give an account of bis travels and dincoveries fn Rastern Paleutine, Col, Warren hus tn the press o work culled “Tho Tomple or tho Tomb," Mo gives tho history of tho Church of the ifoly Sepulebre, und proves that tho cburch bus always stood upon its present git und that tho ‘Templo was whero tradition an the ununtinous cousent of Jows. 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The eifect Is good, and the variutions of shadow arvadinirably managed. Itisnotn remarkable work, but {s well done, and the subject is well chosen for picturesque- noss, “King's College,” in the Cambridge series, { the next ctebing. The view of the y. menthevil chapel i#an excellentone. It Is matter of regret thatthe architect hos never scertuined. “The Lion tu Ancient art" is nn article well Mustrated to explain its sub- §ect. The Art Chronicle fs full ond interesting, ‘A year's subscription to the Portfoile would be a very handaome gift for n friend, Tt ls so well edited as to be of uniform excellence. ANT NOTES. Mr. Fredrick Wedmore bas published a vole ume entitled, “Tho Masters of Genre Paint- ing.'* 7 —A subscription Net bas been opencd to placa alife-size stutuo of Mr. Ruskin in tho Oxford Drawing-Schoal. —Puratiing bas been tried as iw eubstitute for white wax in the positive process of etching with good reaults, —Prof, Curtius bas returned to Berlin from Greeee, Tho objects found at Olympia are to be proserved in 4 museum. Str. Hunt's paper in the Ninceenth Century on“ Modern English Landeeupe- Tinting “ia at- trcting considerable attention. —Theo second competition for the great statuc of the Republic to be crected ut Purls bas re- sulted in the sctection of the figure destymed by M. Morice. ~The British Howat Aca Paynter's “A Visit to Orchardson’s * On 1 Mr, HH, W. 1, Davis and Mr. Brett's seu-pie The following named exhibitors at the Paris Saton have optatned medals of the that and sec- ond chives: First cliss: | M. Dagnau Bouveret, for w picture entitled *An Accident,” and M, Lorolle, for his * In the Country.” Second clus: M, Cazin, for his “{ahmael” and “Toby "3M. Dantan, for his "Corner of a Studio” and a por- trait; M. Debuin Bourgeots, fora portru a Jullen Je Rant, for ny military pictures M. Bes- nant, for’ Attar the Defeat,” an episode of an fnynsion in teh century, and “Dante and Virgil in 1 tenout, far “Tho Widow; A Beene in Brittany M. Kozier, for a portralt; M. Vernier, for a denside scene; MM. Vely an Ahermitte, for portraits; M. Mouyel, for “Tho Lesson for Sunday"; and MM, Guillon and Kongeron, The medal of honor for painting was, na already aunounocl by cable, awarded to Amié Nicholus Morot, that for sculpture to Gabriol Jules Thomas, and tho Prix du Salon to Auguste Suchetet, For the medats of bonor the pantera had proposed MM, Bustle Morot, and Cormon; the eeutptors, MM, ‘Thomas, Hecquet, and Lanasony tho engravers, At. Wal- toner; and the architects, M. Loviot. SCIENCE. SCIENTIFIC NOTES, It {8 announced that Mr. Darwin has nearly, or quite, ready for pubifeation a work on tho “Circummnutation of Plants," —On tho French Fastern Ratlway Achard olectrio brakes aro. being trict, aud are sad to work satisfnetorily, The electricity is not sup- pled by ordinury cells, but by Pinnté'a necumu- Jating buttery. * —The reports of tho Ming Surveyors and Reg istrars of Victoria for tho quartor ending Do- tate the quintity of alluvint gold obtained to buve bean TW38 'oz, and that ob- tained by quartz mining 120,078 u2, —The berburfum of Dr.C.C. Parry, tho’ dis- tinguished botanist of many Government and other expeditions, bas been presented to. the Davenport Academy of Selonees, 1t contained 15,000 named spoclys, Tho annual Wmeoting Chub of the American Assneintion for tho Ad- Vaneement of Selonce will be held at the museum of the Boston Soclety of Nuturat lilstory, corner of Berkley aiid Doylston sircots, Bouton, commencing utd p. thy Aug, Ay 1880, ~About half tho skeleton of a Camameauni, obtained by Prof. Cope, fist summer, bas been shipped to Palla » The bones nro wel cleared of rock, and tlifewenty-flve boxes, which welgi eh) pots, ‘Tho completo skeleton would weigh about ax tons, ‘The bones aro to te depoalted In the Permanent Exhibition Build- ur —The report for 1870 of Mr, W. A. Conklin, Director of tho Ceutral Park menagerie, Now York, statos Lhat the total numbor of aniinals exhibited was 1206, A goodly number of maine inals and binds were bred [n tho inenagerio. ‘Lhe most viduals antinaly on oxhibition were two bisek leopards, four polur bours, a two-horned, rhinocuri, and a sea-tlon and out, =A Helglun physiclin te reported to have as certained, during a Journey of observation and of the Rntomologient Inquiry muite at the request of the Belylan Gov- ermnent, Uhut the very general and oxcenlye ‘use of tobacco Is tho mln cause of color-blinds eas, nn aifcetion which bia oecagionod vory considerable unxlery, both ia Bellu aud Gore tnany, Ceo its intlucnce upen ruliway and othor Bette jonts, wd alao from the military polucof viow, hy tho last aununl report of tho Zodloyical Bocluty of Philudeiphin, we loarn thut tho wvore ‘aye number of viailors dally, lust year, was 1, ‘tho ree pts conthite to morg thin pay the uxe Ppensed, und the Buvioty bas rreelved from the oxeeutors of the will of J. W. Milter tho sum of S400, A goodly number of animuts were re~ oolved, A number of bous died during the wine ter of 1 disensa showing 8 dipbthoritic condi- don of the nlimentury cunal, probably conus gious in ita nature, Tho number of uufmads in The nlet Ww M2, of which W2 are matainals and nis. —A bill baa been Introduced into tho local Tayislature of Moutreal to incorporate a come Dany to vonatruct a tunnel hetwoen the north and south bnoks of thy Bt, Lawrence nt that elty, ‘he tunnel iv ta by used by provineht and Americun Fall wa wall ua by vebieles and pedoste! is B50 Five nun taal Years will be required Tor she completion of to Work, If Mtisever begun, Tho Grand ‘Trunk is offering vigorous upposition in the Interest of Victoria belies ‘of whle It hus a monopoly, and charges such bigh tolls thut othyr moans of oul- Tet from the olty ape absolutely necessary. ~Dr, PV. Haydon has recently been electod auhouorary molberof thy Yorkshire Pbilo- sopbicul Solely, York, Engiund; the Hallun Gcoyraphical Society, Rome, Ituly; the Beleutitioa Society of Styria, Graz, Austria; tho Soolety Lor tho Adyancoment of Naturnt Science, Marbury; Pruasia, and Verein fir ErdkOnde,* Deesde Alsocorresponding member of tho foclétédes Sol- enees Pbyaiqueset Naturelles, Bardentx, France, and foral associate. af tho Suclété dAnthros Pologla de Parts. Vho Souiets do Topogravhics of Parla, bos also awarded hima medal of tho Dest class drat class for his goolngical and geoxenphical ~Tho Rev, Dr. Haughton, of Trinity College, Dubtin, has complated an exhaustive discussion, of the Inw that regulates fatizuein men and an imats, when fatigue ensues as a rusutt of work, He conelides that at the tima whon fatizue stops tho work, the product of the total work, done, tito the rate at which the work fs por- formed, Is a constant tuuantity. Inothor yords, the result af inusculnr exertion Is inversoly Proportional tothe rite at which It is nccome Hees qpantity: of work done varies of the time occu; forming ite piel pare Sawdust enn be converted Inte a ‘tquid wood, and, afterwards, Into a. solid, Hoxi ble, and almost Indestructible tans, which, when Incor porated with: anknal matter, rviled and dricad, ean be used for tho most dollcate impressions, as woll 14 for the formation of solid and durabla articles, in the following tanner: Uninersy the dust of any kind of wood in dilute aulphurte acid, aullelently strong to affect tho fibres, for Botte day the finer parts aro then pas through 4 sieve, well atirred, and nllowerl to set Ue, | Vrain the tquld from tho sediment, aud mix the Intter with a proportionate quantity of antinal offal, aimitar to that used for glue. “Roll thy mass, pack it in motds, and nilow it to dry. —Two new preservative wnipping-papers haye been recently brought out, one designed for frult and ono for. furs, cloths, ute. ‘Tho first is nde by pine sort, tlague-paper in st butit of sulyciiie acid and haoging itinthouirto dry. Tho bath should be made from on strong nleoholle solution of salyoliic acts, diluted with as much water ns It will bear without: precipication. The apples, orauges, or other frult mny be wrapped in tho paper before packing, and when the [ruit reaches {t4 market the puper enn. be removed and used sunin. A. manila wrapping- paper may be prepared for resisting moths and mildow by dipping it jaa prepared maith, squeezing it and drying it over hut rotters. ‘This bath is made by mixing seventy paris of tho oll renaved by tho distitintion of cout tar naphtha, five parta of erude carbolie acid containing nt lenst 60 por cent ot Qhonola, twenty parts of thin coal tar at 160 deg. Fuhr.,aud five parts of refined petroleum. A TALK WITIL GEN. LOGAN. Why Ho Is In New York at Presont— Garfield Will Carry MMnoiss New York Tritnune, June 23, “Certainiy tho Grint men will support Gar fleld," satd Senator Logan, emphatically, yostor= duy afternoon. “ The party hos never falled to support uny candidate yet, Perbaps we aro not pleased that Grant did not secure the nominu- tion, but that will not provent us supporting tho man who dia." “Do you think Garfield will be ablo to carry Tilinojs?"” naked the reporter, a8 ho took a scat ae the Senator’a room at tho Fifth Avenue tol. “Certainly,” was the rendy reply, ‘Any ono of the gentlemen before the Convennion would have carried Ullnols. Thore 1s not the allghtest doubt about that.” nei you Intend totake the stump for Gar “Certainly. I nlways stump for the Republio- an candidute, Where, 1 cannot tell, That will have to be arranged by: the Exeoutive of the Natlomal Itepublican Committe," I notice that Senntor Conkling and other Repubilcans aro hore to-day; hus thore beon any formal meeting?" “No; the incoting here was purely unox= pee . 3 enue over here to spend tho time between now and tha mocting of the Nationnl Comimittes on the lstof July, It was 5carce! worth while going home, having to come bac! ogaln, and £ thought that L might us well spend the time bere ns anywhere else, Ob! no; our meeting here was entirely unexpected How about the election of Chnirinan and the Sceretary of the National Committes?’ “Tho inutter really stands in this way, that Marshall Jewell Is ‘Temporary Chairman, Tho day aftor tho Chicuyo Convention wo had a meoting, aud Marshall Jowell was elected Chair- mun without opposition. Then the name of Mr. Piatt was propused ng Secrotury, and this seemed: tome both just and proper, us a good part of the fighting will by made fa New York in tho rat place, and, In the second, Mr. Piatt 1s a very ablo mau and bas occupied 9 similar nosition befor, The propesition was: unanimously agreed to, Mr. Platt, however, declined, and ‘that waa allt of It.” ro Was © Thon Mr, Jewell a Chairman?" “No; the whole Committeo {8 in a chaotio stato at present, und there {s no orgunization at all, Mr, Jewell has merely power to call the members togothor on July J, when thoy will or gonize, When Mr. Piatt deatined somebody suggested that the wholo matter would bettor be left over in order that Garileld’s wishes might hs sunmulled in tho matter, and this was accord+ gly don ‘Auer who will be the Chatrman?” “ Lhnyo no iden.” “Whut do you think of Tilden’s letter?” *Edou't think anything of {t. I don’t bother mysulf with matters belonging to tho othor sido, atall [nim satistied with attending to tiny own party. Let them nominate whom they will, 1am gull confident of a Republican victory. Our whe. party is thoroughly harmonized and unitud. “Was Gon. Arthur's namo mentioned bofora Garticld received the nominition 2” “No; there was no mention made of Vicc- Presidents. Aftor Garilold was nominated wo understood that New York. wighed to give tho nomination to Gen. Arthur, and it was accepted without queation. ——————_$—- THE SPRINGFIELD POST-OFFICE. ‘Trick to Cheat the Widow of D. Ms Phillips Out of It. Ty the Editor of The Chteago Tribune. BSrntNorienD, Ul. June 21.—Obsorving in yose terdny's Sangamo Monitor (Dem) a paragraph relating to ‘Tue Cricsgo Trung and tho appointment to tho Springfleld Post. Ollice, which did you Injustice, and which It fg also known was procured to ba printed in tho Mfunitor by Mr.Bolby’ himself (tho editor of * tho Monitor, Mr. Kidd being absent at Cincin- nati), Mr, Phillips’ frionds thought it highly proper that the Munifor should correct tho mia- take which thoy had been led into through Paul Selby’s mlsrepresontation of the facts. ‘The following is Selby’s statement in tho Afon~ itor (Dem): YY HICAGO TIMMONG bas something to a: indecent haste, ole. in the mattor of Senator application fuk ie Springtield Pos-Omieo Yuu Belby, of the Journal, In Justice to Bir. by life friends, and fs ni ott In bis prowant alitade Col, Fatty that he ¢ uA for Mr. Selby 15 ‘thu fy fm ela Fonuust mindy in writing by dunt and yo benator Logan, his suiccesnur whon tho Jiiliiips Toraxaw months 9 tue condition of his healt nd gentlomunly instincts ‘aru thoughtot anything ky indecunoy on his part. Tho orticle in tho Muntfor of to-duy—tho Sth Is true in all purtioutars. ss Au application for tho apointmont of dirs, Phillips for tho romalnder of her husband's term of olllce hus been mnde to President Hayes, and bus been aligned by Cook Irwin, Mayor of the clty, and by Samuel Shant, Sheriff of the county, and also by Louls Tieknor, County Cleri,—all Republican: nd by tho lending ‘merchants, bankers, professional and business men of the ties With the citzens gonernily almost @ umle in favor of the appointment of the widow of D. J, Philips for the unoxpirod term of her bus- band to enable her to poy off an Indebtedness on. the homestead and thus have a home tor bersctt: mid children, {t does seem that tho appltcation will be approved by the President, otherwisu wo must understand wut no mutter bow many yours’ service a good and loyal wad atic Repub. ican gives to his purty and country tbat when: dead his momory and spec isa for his gervices yanish from the minds of politicians,—bis widow and her ehitdron: are to he brushed out af the way by public men who aro lovklng’ for five mon whom thoy hope eat run a primacy elvetion and help thom on to a’ new oflicc, Youra, - ? OLp Guakn, Please insert tho following from the Aumitor of Satay Sickert arte Pal. Ds La PI ate Postmaster sprimenatges ute uioinba conta aay Boat eee ae tr, Fuallipa. doxired. to boquoath th 4 : 7 i backore jucal FusteOnico ts ind Reutiornal, wid find pHOE tO, Uige Howrliee a fettor ie me resident and to Honator Seo pati mboe te wna pemtrtt ry muueuwent to alee pare inant papor, hu was promised ti Fust-Onice Uy natn Gran puuan und Cullou, or in aiber words, Mr, Kinudter bout forGenut uniues a proinisa to that ots Jove was nisde, und Lt ordor to yut Mr, Phillips ous of y Way saualucturily ho was to be wiven a forekD ap~ eat tg tatearsweiio, oa ing part oF Pbilips rt fae “foundation stn. foot sand. the oncocted to create tho iinprossion thus, sue itu inducont tinate. liad boon imade Dy Bolby, when any on thy ong hind snd 1, any Cullom, and Bo Uthor, 1 was before Mr, Puiliips Pai! nnd thut the change should unul tho explrauen or the ternt for wi ad Dove appolniad.. This belly dr perons Interested ta that the upexplred torus should be givea, be: restiua, vo Bre, Uhitiive, loay ind BF. rulea thelr rake vided he ls tepublican, which ts extrumely doubts Portis ly. Bulby realises that the chauced aro nuulnstwuch al Administration, Wherefore bis hursiud , ensures ta Ket bis books iu Uut bo may improve ‘the te (bat reuunina, ' <<< Killing Himsolf for a Girl of Thirtcen, BAN AnTOsIO, Tox., Juno 16.—Geronimo Grun« adu,a Mexican boy of 15, becume enumored of & girl of 1,and sought her band tu mar riage. Hor parents objeoted on account of -tho age of both parties, and the clroumstances of Grenada. ‘Thy lutter grew Pesperate, an Friday moruing lald down on hls bed, pluced the muzzle of a gun near bis beuct, and 6. tho weapon with bisleft fout. Tho ball went through tho heart, pnaducing lustunt death. Ho feft a unte assigning the cuuse to Lo disappoint | nent, ‘I'he romance of this sulelde ly Wiloul & paruliel in thla section. me Uso Papillon for itching skirts r i

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