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tintin THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, ULY 3, 1880—TWELVE PAGISS. v NEW PUBLICATIONS. ‘A FAMOUS VICTORY “ in Mvety diniogne and wilty Cena ite neenoe nnd descriptions which show exceltent observation and rare power ofexpreasion. Its cleverness and brightne: ond ite drendfnt trath, have given It 9 quict fates!*—Charles Dudley Wacnor in the Hartford Courant. Conran «A Wonderfully Fascinating Volumne."---Boston Home Jousnal, y 2d Edition Now Ready. ‘PRE-ADAMITES; Or, A Demonstration ofthe Extstence of Afen Hefore Adam. Ipy ALEXANDER WINCHELL, LL. D., Professor of geology and Palwontology In tho University of ‘Michigan, author of “Sketches of Creation.” Eto. Ete. 1 volunia, octavo, of avor 60 pages, with Kthno- graphid Maps and Nnmorous Mustratlons. rico, Bw. © Ne. Winchall’s argument [s very atrong-”—Appla- ‘tons’ Journal. “No work recently published upon tho rubject can tomparo with thle in Importanco.”—Now York Evon+ Ind Post . “By far tho most exhaustive and scholarly on prim- itive man which bas evor appostod."—Hoston Trar- aler. x styte, clear 10 oxposition, and e¢ml- nontitasitecttvalnitsmubloct matter, Thlse waluani exposition of ethnaloxicn) sclonce, treating qabticdvolye wide range of questions in Folation to Thebrixine distribution, charactoriatics, nid patural history of the haman race! opuler Science stonthly. facts and opinions upon all pos- sine eRe oe cesta d wich, tho arin nnd carly history o! mankind, both ‘on its. aciontiic and and on fia tueblogical aldo.” —Loaton Courlor. ho laborious resoarches of 8 reverent cocttahesinagie se ordamitos will doustiess rove & highly {interesting and uroful volute ton A ‘einen of randarn. whe collection ot phyaiofonieat Fr aa Ore oning. atc ive of the kind a OxDM eve rowan topotiie ho Vreabytorian Journal, Philadephia. . UI Bold by all Booksollers. Will be sent propald ‘on recelpt of prico by the Publishors, s. Cc. GrRICCS & CO., 25 Wanhlagtonsst.s Chicago, ‘4 FAMOUS VICTORY The Hook 1s a hit.""—Chicago Times. “Altogether It lea strong, vigorous book,” Inter Ocean, * . It teanpertor to ‘Democracy’ with which tt naturally Invites compariaon.’’—Chicago Tribune. “Jt In likely to be n famous novel in connece tion with the Presidential enmpaign of 1880."'—Chicago Journal. CAMPAIGN CLUBS: WILL FIND ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDER Tho Bost-Parliamontary Manual, GENATOR EDMUNDS rays It io“ A very lucid, compact, and conventions work.” GOVERNOR COBH, of Alnbama: “A decided v Improvemont on formor works,” KK, ROGERS, Private Secretory to Pres w. iene dagen, sayes Ait ts unquosmonably tho : tent of New York EX-APEAKER IKUST: Btn ‘gonoral uso I regard ED, . State Legielature t “ For; {t tho best book extant.” WIAREISON, of Chicago: “Thavo aed eine Hates ince’ hrosided over the ty Council... . 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It te briliinnt and capti- vatlogton degree that would attract atten+ ton to the hook If the story It tells were fur teas Interesting than it 1s,.''—Dotroit ¥roe Proas, rt COVERED WITH THE BLUE. oy are trying to covor it wp Again— THEY cover tho Gra! ‘with tho luo; To steal tho roins of Government From tho loyal, bravo, and trun, joy havo bolted about from hush to brake, THEY dud some trick tout would wing : But always, when the finish was roached, ‘They wore sure to never come In. “04 thoy loyally (7, crawled mo th ont of Pathe Mao's ‘Phoy wore ali tho best of Union mon *"But they necded moro votes at thelr back, ‘In ‘68 thoy mot us fal, Ang fought in At “ pelts ut thoy nee votes, Wile thoi party could not yield, | In ‘72 "twas anything To beat the Bilont Man; Bo they sneaked behind the atatesman form ‘Of him who bad been tholr ban. , Tn ‘78, with thor barrel of wealth, ‘And ritlo oluba and euch, 'Thoy thought to gain tho White-House chair; But ight was ono too much. Bo now, in ‘80, thoy'ro back again As they wore in "64, And ghoakingly crawl beneath tho folds Of the loyal Blue once more. ‘Thojr sins aro too many and misorable ‘0 be covered with the Blu; ir, whorovor there's a bullot-balo, ‘The Gray comos pushing through, A voto for the Blue to got tho Gray Ts what thoy want of us; ‘, But we'll vote for the one that’s Blue clear : rough, And save another fuss, ‘We'll vote for the Boldier-Statesman, Show up our strongest hand, Sadie the Gray-couts sco ugala at the Loyal rute tho land. . " Wannren Dorr, oo : THE GAIN, Last night whon I beard tho verdict, + And faced tho terrible truth * That all alone to the Great Unknown * [must journoy out in wy youth, Twent like a chfid in sorrow, And trobled your wolght of wor Buta clearer dght I aa ined In the night, And now Iam glad to go. * For now you will keop alway Sheltered and warm In your heart, And things unseen cannot come botween, jo trou! le, Paln, Bt part “Bivi were but a woman, With a intature of faults and wortht Dea, J shall soem to your baloud droam + Like the very salt of tho earth, Living, es would remarber ‘Thut Y had many a Haw; Dead, your mind will only find . | The salnt whom the world n - Liylog, my bloom would porial ‘And | would be fair no moro; Dead, my face will gainagrace =, On Earth it never wore. + Bo whother we find a Heaven * Or be at rest for aya, . There is certain gain in tho parting pain ‘To tha one who gues away. For the world is cruel at kindest, And full of troublod ways; + But whon we aru doad, and all is sald, moud of praia, . ELLA WiaeEcxn, ‘or caw. ‘We are sure of our a The people have vonfidence In tho Shakers’ aris because 8 genuine Shaker med Eine propated by the Canterbury Bakers, ‘hak ie Village, Be 1, as LITERATURE AND SCIENCE. William Cowper—-The Roman Empire—Two Great Artists. The Ballet-Dancer’s Husband—Life of Hancock—The Encyclopedia Britannica, Thoologleal Works—Taylor’s Essays— Magazines—Tooks Kecelved—Lit+ crary aud Sclentific Notes, LITERATURE. WILLIAM COWPER, Gokiwin Bmith considers Cowper “tho most Important Rnglish poet of tho period between Vopo and the Illustrious group headed by Wordsworth, Byron, and Shelley." Reviewing tho, clreumstancestof his life, [tis almost muar- Volous that be should have attained rank of apy kind ns upoct, He wasn prey to alckness ond to bodily intirmity; he was poor fn this world’s guods; his religious enthusiasm almost drove him crazy; his morbid feelings led him on more than ono ocenslon to attempt suicide, and, yet he holds his pluco in English Mterature by virtue of hfs pright fancy, play- fulness of feeling, and finish + of thought. Southey had alrendy mado us famillar with Cowper's lite before Mr. Smith undertook tho task, nnd, in fact, the lutter has borrowed liber- ally from tho former, We were already familiar with the poct’s “long retirement, bis simple hubits, bis favorit spanicl, bls tama hares, bia devotion to Mra. Unwin, and bis intervals of melancholla.” Mr. Smith has repested and clnborated all that was proviously known about the author of tho * Task" Ina pleasant and wrace- fulmannor, Thore!s something very striking in tha contrast between the poot’s primitive sad-colorcd tastes and monotonous life and the grace und playfulness of his atyle which, In the uplnion of the Spectator, “hag nover been sur- Pussed in English literature.” Mr, Smith's catimate of Cowper is summed up in the following passage, with which he closes his essay: “Any one whose lot It is to write upon tho life and works of Cowper must fecl that thore Js an immonse difference hetween tho interest whieh attaches to him and that which attaches to any oue ainong the far greater poets of the succeeding ayo. Still, thore ts sumething: about him so attractive, his voice bas such a sll+ yer tone, horetains, even in his ashes, sucha faculty of winning frionds, that ble biographer and critlo may bo enslly begulted into giving him too bigha plice. He belongs toa purticu- lar religlous movement, with tha vitality of which tho interest of a grent part of bis is departing, more emphatically and in a still moro important sensedocs he belong to Christianity. {i no natural etrigle for existence would be have been the surviver, by nonatiral process of selection would he ever have been pieked ou n vessel of honor. If the shiotd which for eight- een centurics Christ by Mis teaching and Tis death hus spreml over the weak things of this world shouki full, and might should iain bo- come the title to existence and the measure of worth Cowher w Ibe cast side ns a specimen of eee REN and all who have said anything in hia praise will be treated with the anne seori.” With this estimate wo do not bolleve the ma- jority of Cowper's’ readers will agree, Even wranting tho strong religious fevllog that per- vades tho poat’a works: oven adinitting that his whole life was clouded by his mistaken orover-morbid views of religion even tracing the intitenco of religious zeal, acting On @ Buper-sonsitive tomperamont, and colori his thoughts and fancles,—neverthoicss thore {6 acharm about his poctry entirely indepondent of ita religious tone, and ho diaplays a shrowd- nessof judginent and a capacity for sharp Bi~ tirtenl writing entirely forelyn to the devotional clement. As another writer bus said: * He osscssed R CONSUIINAtTS Urt As A Writers hossid, it the quietest voice, the essential thing, cast into form that exactly clothed it, and in conso- ticnce his best pusénges aro as churming now os thoy wore contury ago.” Tuke these two il- Justrations of Cowper's playtulness, or wit;—al- though tho torm hus bocn so nbused as to amount often to a misnomor,—and tho juaticoot tho strictures passed on Mr. Snilth’s estimate wil be apparent: “Some men employ their health—nn ugly trick— In making known how oft thoy have been sick, Ant give us In recitals of disease, ‘A doctor's trouble, but without tho feess Ttetute how many weeks thoy kept thoir bed, How an emetic or cathurtlo sped; Nothing fs slightly touched, much less forgot, Nosa, curs, and oyes scem present on tho poe Now the distemper, spite of draughtor pill, ‘Victorlous seemed, and now tho doctor's skill; And now—alns! for unforeseon mishaps !— Thoy put on a damp night-cup, and relapses Thoy thought thoy must have dlod, thoy wereso bad; 2 ‘Thelr peovish henrors almost wish thoy bad.” Or, nguin, bis tines agalust too inuch famiUarl- ty in friendship: “It is not timber, lead, and stono: An architect requires alone ‘To finish a great building; Tho pulace wore but half completo, Could he by any chance forget * ‘Tho carvlug and tho gilding. ‘The man who halls you Tom’? or' Inck,” And provea by thuinping on your back ils gongo of your great merit, Is such a friend that one bud necd Be very much his friend, Indeed, ‘To pardon or to bear it." These do not sound like the productions of man who Is “ to bo enst usido as a despicable in- Alrmity ” under any coutingency, - Io his poetry Cowper wus u reformer, “calling it back from conyontionality to nature.” He 1s tho first of English lctter-writers, shuriug the place with no one unless it may bo Byron. Mr. Smith agrees with Southey in this catimate of hia rank nga letter-welter, Its to bo regretted that he could not flud spuce for moro xpeelmens of his skill in this line, On the whole, Mr. Sniith hog given in very fale blography of tho poot sotting forth the leading facts Int his uneventful lifo with clearness und dolug justice to those whinrities to whieh from inck of wyinpathy ho would huve boen most tkely to be unjust. Jil eriticul eathnate of Cowper's work {4 not il- ways equally unprejudieed, ~The writer of “John Gitplin” and wk” has more elaims: ton grateful remembrance and a oleurer title to runk with tho great poots than his present Dlographer ts willing to admit. Nor in Mr. Smith always consistent. In one place ho gasigns Cowper rink asa rellglous poot and treats of him as tho exponent of a partleular Fellglous novomont, wa n writer who without nis Chriathanity would " be ciat aside us nh desplo- able futlrinity,” Shut speaking of © Tho Tusk" (p, B), bo says: Tho praise of retirement and of country Ufo, as inost friendly to. plot, and virtue, ja tho perpetual rofraln of *The Task,’ if not its dotinit theme, From this tinmediately: flow tha bestand the most populur passaged: those which please apart from anything peeuttar to abreligtnus schuol; those which keep the puen alive: those which have'fuund thelr way inte te heart uf the natton, and intensified the taste for rural and domestic happiness. to which thoy moat wine ningly appedl." Milton was the great muster from ‘whom Cowper drow hiv inspiration, ‘Cho life of tha latter was commonplice enough. It contains few attrictive clemonts. Mr. Sith has mado its details interesting and rentable, and has condensed into six scare ur more of ages ubout all the goner! reador will caro to Knew or take the tine ta rend. (Willlum Cowper. By Goldwin Smith. Eagtish Men of Letters Series. Now York: Hurper & Bros, Price T5cents.) THE ROMAN UMPIRE. Niobubr asserted that Gibbon's Ilatory of tho Devlino and Fall of tha Roman Emplro was tho greatest historical production whethor in anoleator modern Hternture, and that his work would nover bo oxcolied. Dean Milman added that ft was tho sole undisputed authority and Ine dispemmble tothe student of history, This work, pralsed by such high authority, baa vow boot ixauod by Harpor ros, In a form similar to tho new and popular ibrury editions of Mune and Macaulay, Itls printed from now cloctra- typo plates, on fine paper, uticut edges, and appropriate binding, and will be an omament as well as 8 Ticenasity toany brary. Tho presont edition is reprinted from tho lust quarto edition correetod by tho author, and contains notes which summarize the udvunoes mado In bistorival knowledge sinco the work yas fret published by Dean Sinan, Me Guizot, and Dr, Willlum Sinlth, ‘Tho superiority of thig edition is claimed to vonstat na correct text, verification of the references fo anelont writers, and corrvctive und supplementary notes," and it fa further stated thut this Is tho fieat th the references have been veriMed, An autobiography of Gibbon has beet prefixed and & coplous Index udded. The enterprising pube Hishors bf these popular editiong of standard works aro eiititiod to credit and thinks for the manner in whieh they have brought handsune editions within tha reach of the tussce, ‘The works arc cheap only in price. Material and workmanship aru at tho beat. ‘This edition Of Gibbon completes tho serles of standard bla sorles yo far ws planned, but if tholr auecosa by at all commengurata with their deserts It augue toand probably will be oxtonded. Hume, Mas caulay, and Gibbon constitute a notable trio of great names, As histortuns thoy ure justly Claased in the bigbest rank, A poor odidon of & fine work is an auomuly and false economy, oycR {fealled cheap, but a fine edition of an author who fenn wuthority natn low prico Ia something tulways welcome and nlwaya to bo commented. TWO GREAT AITISTS, Anew volume in Seribner & Welfont’s serics of biographies of Famous Artista fs ‘Horace Vernet and Paul Delnrovhe," by J. He Hees, From the preface we foarn (hat with te excep- tton of brief notices in contemporary reviews, no Rngiish blograpby of these two most popu Ine of modern Froneh nctiats. has appenred. Wartn and Intimate friends, closely conuccted by marringe, thoy were ns oppaalt. In character ng they worn united In thelr love of art." Vere Met, it Bis military pletures, qloritted the suce teases of France, and “appealed. to the patriotic anatigct Of Frenehmen, Delaroed by his sensitive appreeintion of the motive which away human ietion, and his ideal trant. inent’ OF “historic atbjects ret nt pathes: which toneics the bear: Hy hls works, Mr, Reet conatder that It 1s patter of the ' Hamfeyete’ that hy will be bes Hown to fame,” and among the Husteations in this voltime there fs ong oponing Ike, a long map which represents this" Temleyelo. ft. Keer tusconferred a favor upon art lovers In bringing together tho blograpiitenl nnd crit~ Jeal materiatewhieh oxtst aeith rrapect to Vernet fd Dehiroche, and the stories of tholr Hives and stholr successes fern an oxecedingly Foturust eur volume, [tia falrly Mlustrated with prints ol the best known works of theso urtlats. THE BALLELT“DANCEHS IFUSBAND. Compared with some of the French transin- tlons of tho past yenr this book Is elern and wholesome, Yet It possesses hardly a pleasing or attractive feature from beginning toend, 1b hns certain elements whieh would render ft pale atable to tho tastes of tho Froneli readers, for whom It wus written, yet it fa not eo bid ne tg exclude It from tho decont society whore 4 Naw" and atiniinr works ought to be regard. ed us peat-hoilses. Ite vory pints allusions to the temptations of, he coulisses: would be expected in a book having ite tity and dealing with Its theme, ‘Cho nuthor des serves credit, however, for mod use of fA Ieense which was pertin eboson. And this is att the more evident from tho faut that Brneat Almd Feydeau nequired ail tho notoriety he over posseased by tho publica Yon of 1 nore than questionable book ontitied “Fanny,” iis other worka of fiction have never attatnod popularity, and his plays wero dumned before thelr production, “Of all his writings, bis *Skotches of Aigerinn Life” are the ouly ones likely to be even remembered with plensure, What especial eliitn stich n welter had on ofther translator or trausatiantio publisher is somewhat obscure.” And the ob- security is not greatly Myhtened after a falthtul, aithotigh somewhat wearisome, perusal of the bovk in question. Without attempting to, eyen outline tho lot of “The Hallet Dancer's Husband,” tt muy: fo sald that Barberine’s botter-bnlf is about as contemptible n apectinen ‘of humunity ns ever, gven in tetion, lind the right to bo called a Count. Mer affection for him under all elreums stunces Is about the only tondor and touching fenture of the work. Her character 1s well au strongly drawn. Morni: sie is not, nor docs she uffect n virtue sho does not possess; but, when bor lover becomes ber hustund, she is a faithful and devoted wife. Tho transformations aro mipit both of charnater and of scence, We have fost, Papers compromising certain consptr- mora, and wo travel from Paris to. Poland and roturn,with a trip to America thrown 0. ‘Thero fre many exciting seonca quite sktlirnlly painted, “but ft is impossible to consider the book an aequlaltion to the light Mterature | of tho day or eyon aR one that will give pleasure in the reading. At _ tho saiue time there fs much loss objectionable matter than might have been expcoted. ‘Tho transintion is, of course, well done, Ballet-Dancors Husband. Transiatod from tho Freno of Ernest Foyideau by Mary Neat Sherwood. Chicago: Honry A. Sum- nor & Co.) THE LIFE OF GEN. HANCOCK, I. A, Sumner & Co. aro ontjtled to tho credit of belng the firstin the ficll with a campaign biography ot the Democratic candidate for the Prestdeney. As Gon: Hancock's life has been purely milltary, and not especially remarkable, the book fs neecssarily briof. As it will ecll In Jarge quantities, if at all, and mainly for free distribution, it 18 appropriately cheap, The portrait is very poor, and is not ovon a fair tke- neas of tho gallant soldior -It. professes to represent. “Wo notice one innaccurnte stute- ment on pagy UW. “Gen, Hancock was not 0 samnte of Gen. Grint's at West Point. Fora eampiign document it fs rather singular that. no allusion oven is mado to Iuticock’s serve or Jees ns a Department Commander in Loulstana, nporiod of his tlfe generally dwelt upon toa very considernble oxtent by thous whom this book Is {utonded tonkt. ‘ho book duals entirely with Hancock the Suldior, .3t has not been gen- erally supposed: that Gen. Hancock was tt-rich man, ‘This‘biographical work convoys n ditfer- ent opinion. The writer suys: Hancock Ja famed for bis fospitality, fo entortalns in princely atite a bablt Nita ample fortune permits him to/indulgo in to his heart's content. He may almost be sald to keep open house at his headquarters on Governor’s Islund.” Mr, Freed better reviso his work, or ho wilt be convicted of giving “ald nnd comfort to tho cnemy,” some- thing Gen. Hancock would certaloly ever tol- emto, The proof-reading bas been carelcsly douc, “duito and Berviecs of Gen. Winfield Scott Han- cok By A.'T, Freed. Chicago: H. A. Sumuer ENCLYCLOP/EDLA BRITANNICA, Volumo XI, of this, the most elaborate and most perfect encyolopredias, and which carrics tho work as far as“ Hippooratos" has been re- colved, Prof, W. Robertson Smith fs the prin- olpul writer of tho Biblical articles {n this num- ber, Mr. Freemnn, the historinn of the Norman Conquest, writes on Harold, Tho sketch of Hur- neo Grecley, whioh was Iinited by tho editor to A page and a hulf, is by Mr. Whitolaw liold. Tho Nov, Mark Pattison, nuthor of the “ Milton’ Inthe English Men of Letters Sorica, writes on Grotius, and Mr, R. H. Stoddard on Hawthorno, Thore {3 nothii to ondd or subtract has been _ written praize | gnd. commendation of this work. Tho articles aro in tho nature of essays by experts, and, while we mnay not always accept the theories ndvanced by them as our own, hovortholess they appear to havo fairly aum med up both alles of disputed question, We bave cutled attention to tho shortcominys of purticu- Jar articles bofore. tn this yoltume, so fac as tts gontents have been exninined, thero fg but Uttle fuult to be forma, ‘Tho work Ix belie vrought to completion as rapldly ue possible, When finished: it wit be not only a valuable addition to. ovory library; notonly an invaluable book of | refers ences nog only 8 monument of pationt tnvor und fuvedtlyation,—but It will qtsa bo w contribution, to the litentture of the warld of which tha nine- teonth century may well be proud, and it collec- tlon of volumes containing a compendium of the world’s knowlodge tnuaually neearte and completo, Sovoral of tho articles In thla num ber are copyrighted. We are indebted to Little, Brown & Co,, of Hoston, for the yolunie. already’ MISCELLANEOUS WORKS. The volume of * Easaya and Literary Notes,” by the lute Bayard ‘Tuylor, which hus recently beon Issued by the Putuams, conststs of articics collected from ditferent periodicals to which Mr. Taylor contributed, and also u republication of some of his book-notters in the New York Tribe une, Intho preface those essuys ure sald to formn 8 sequel to the “ Studios fm German Lit- erature" by tho Aatne author, “inasmuch a6 they show what tho author uccomplished in tho way of briefer Mterary and analytical oritl- clin.” Without this explanation tho use of tho word “sequol” might bo misiouding. Many of thoso urticles seem tke old fumillar frivuda clad tu new and fitting dress, Nawspaper work 18 neccessarily ophemeral; oven more 6o thin inagazino work. 1b is oimlnently propor that tho efforts of ony so distinguished for sobolarship, oxporlonce, orlticul nvaimen, and literary ability should be placed before tho Mit in somo substantial and enduring form. fr. ‘Taylor never slurred over anything, io atrengiti at bia great nitned to white lertook toavcomplish, and thorefare ‘on big nowspaper work wus done with unusual care ind faithful uttention, Ho loved Ilterature, and bis curnest desire ws to seo it. rive to pree eminence tn thtacountry, The book will well rupuy reading, and tho many admirers and lies ot Pas yied Paylor wu windy Syulpotnn Fils additional collection of his writings to u plac pn tholr library sbelves. ~ rap ieee follduy Rambles” fs 0 collection of letters ixiuully publiahed in tho Spectator, Why thoy ghould have been republished In b8ak form 18 not particularly clear. They ure well written, fae HC, jolurostlug Rovountaot travel through WiTurent portions pues with which utmost gyery Intolllgont roudor t somowhut familiar, wu full tio af the book te * Ifollday Humblos iit Ordintry Plucos by 4 Wife with flor ftusband.s ebey nilght huve waod more of novelty wud Srekd hoy been written by “ n wife With: out her husbun As It is, we have a promo narrative of suropean Journoytngs by a Indy keenly allye to tho many’ attractions vauttlea of econery encountered fa hor nested Alphonse Daudot ts called the "French Dick- ens" ae wellor in a recent number af tho Vie- tortan Leview, Un bis lust book, “The Prodiyious Adventures of Partarin of Turasau ho up: pears rather to bave adopted tho atyte of Cur vantos, An interviewer recently asked bint whetbor he had read inuny Nagin works, He ‘the hidden burb at ouce, andreptied promp It has been said that T have finituted Diu! ut Thiave already dented that, Ehave hudu Dickensesque turn of mind—tom: yore of course, by ndash of the Boutherar, y firat novel, Fa Potit Chose,” has much of Dlokons* style, but it ourtainly was not imituted, The Doginning of *Le Potit Chose" ts tho story of iny eurly Hie. Dickens read tho book and wrow a most Hattering notice of It fu which ho hulled me, it secins wi kladred spirit, Tknew nothing of it Ui Dickens di Tadecd, I nover Anew be had so much os heard of mo til Twas told so by Paul Koval.” Duudet belongy to the inodorn realistic school of which Flaubert, De Goncourt, and Zaly are, or wore, tho leading ux- ponenta, Bat in this book he stinply gives an exnurgerated bogeaphy af wquactenery ‘elated to bo rtill umony the Iving. | ft ls broad cari+ enture rather than a tevgl, The hero ian hunts. man ny mlighty: Yirnrod, and, fired with bis awn belief In hls a Aeris wt aiion-killer, His a TUL fudicrond, and the book deeldedly an addition to humorous Nterattire Crom ao ene tlrely unexpected source, but pone theo leas wele same, ‘fhe tmaisiation fa poorly done, or pers Ininore jurt to Mr. Minot to any cire- -Among tho many novels which tho summer acuson impels the publlabers te send forth toan expectant public the majority are hustly-irlt- ton and of deeldedly Inferior merit, Uceasion+ ally on. old fuvorit inekes ite arppearanee Ina cheap form; sumettn the heat of a siainer Hatches out a ebicken dedtined to tive and iS at attain {4 growth; once Inn while a tirateclasa novel fg bora Inta the world to triumph over Ha short-lived brothers. butas ao rule summer lite oratire $a chenp, trashy, merely of temporary: vate, and read only to be thrown away, Un- lucky the man whoin sad, celentlesd fais eon piste wade Uuronely Myo tau looking for tha » rh Iden trensures, sometimes: birled too attract the uttention: of the hurried tra Our table gronns beneath tho weight ol books which a novel-rending public are ox- pected to purchase. But tew of thom dtesorveuven tho few hours’ attention required for tholr perusal. “Daphne: lott tn this general statoment, It fa Interesting, readas Die, and not too exelting for the hot wether, It Is thos Unt he (usteument ta witness to many scenes not Uncommon in everyday life but told Pienmmntly, smouthis. and naturally: Th tacit In not natural and the sentiment is at times sa. exnggernted as to lose tts faree and effect, Hut Cis youd Ught renin, requires ny offort'to keep interested, nnd In this respect ut Teast deserves moro thin a mere passing glince. —Tho History of the City of Denver, Arnpu- hoe County, and Colorado: Containing a Tiistory: of the State of Coloritdo from Its Eurliest Settle ment to the Present ‘I mbricing ts Geological, Physteal, Cine Features, [ts Agricultural, Railroad, nnd Siining Interests, eles Condensed Sketeh of Arapahoo County: a History of tho City of Denver,—Giving nit Ac- count of Ite Harly Settlement and Growit, Its Improvements, Bussin and Industries, Churches, Schools, ete.; Blograptical Sketches; Portraits of Some of the Barly Settlers and Prominent Men; Views of Sublle Buildings, Private Residences, Business Houses ty Ct, Illustrated, Chlengo: 0, L, Bask! Is n copy of the modest and unpre pave, vf the ponders xiit-edyed volte whieh fs “suld only by subseription.” Lak Burnum's great: show, It_containa everything that fv advertised, and a great deal more hostdes, The book is handsomely gotten up by tho pub- Hehérs, but we should Imagine that any ono seeking Jnformation about elthor Denver or Colorado would prefer jt In more vomprct form. ere can be no question as to its sumpleteness, and, Quite tho blographical portion, which vonstitutes about two-thinls of tho book, {t might be a valuable book of refer- enea, every one whose tifa 1s sketched It ft buys n copy, it wold require a tremendons cdftion to autiaty tholr wants, xo that its success would be ussurred at the oteet. Those greatly Interested In Denver nud Colorado will undoubt- odly find itl questions suswered within [ty cavers, lis value to the general reading public (8 In- finitestmal. Its alze and bulk render ft unwieldy. ‘The subjects treated hardly warrant such allo- pathic doses. Tho books which Mr. Rand hns already pub- Mshed have given bln a prominent place mong nuthors of Fuvento Utoratura dn the country. ‘Thoy are bright, healthful, and breezy, with no foreed Incidents and sensuttonnl ‘situntions, “The Bark Cabin" fs the story of a retired Beu- cantuin, who, with his family, spends the sum- ner vacation in n cabin bullt for the purpoye on the side of that must picturesque of New En- gland mountains, Kearsnge. Mingled with the adventures of tho party ure realistic descriptions of the scunery of the region, so that renders got unuactual idea of what the place is: Iike, We cominent tho book to boys, who will find it full of out-door feeling, and thoroughly enjoyable. —"Ontlying Europe” ts a collectton of Ictters from various parts -of Europe and the Orlent which were originny published in the Phln- dolphia Hvening Bulctin, Tho letters have been somewhat elaboruted and renrranged go a8 to make i continious narrative, but there Is very littio particularly novel or oriwinul in thom, Thoy are better than the inajorlty of correspond ents’ lotters, beeause more’ carefully prepared, ‘They furnish much useful and interesting Ine formation about tho places visited which an ine tending touriat would undoubtedly find prollt- able and Plcasant reading. Hut there fs just so much and no mora.to be anid shout European eltios, and ail that fg of importance has becn re- Peated with varintions by hundreds of writers, The jotturs from Norway, Sweden, and Denmark hire, therefore, by far the most interestius, us well as tho freshest reading. ‘Tho writer wis a. keen observer of men and things, and wields a gracoful pen. ‘n bis work ontitled Tho Agricultural Ant of Texas" Sr. McCook hus furnished a kuy to the habits of the! whole family of ants, His bvok showa patient study and Investigation, and Js well ilueteetodGy. carefully-cxevittod plates, itis sulssteuuliy printed and clearly written. It Ja too high-priced aud elaborate a work to be of Practical use to tho farmers of ‘Texas or any other region, Entomologists will, however, wel- comme it ug an assistant lia well-nigh ‘unexplored field, Whothor tho field deserves tho umount of Inbor bestowed upon tt by Mr, MeCook or not {5 and Rtock-Growing, + ‘hut ending Litlho= A question on which Natirullsts may dlifor. —Col. Allun bas written a history of Stonowall Juckson's cainpaign in the Shenindoak Valley of Virginin, The story of this campaign will always be interesting to tho actors init ou both aides, tind not merely to thoi oO to students of military art {t affords an adinirable example ofan aggressive-defensive campalyn, and one of tho instances In modern times whero still and Saring almost noutralized anporiority. of wum- bora and resources, This work hing been com- piled from olticinl sources, and If expinined by excellent topographical maps. — It will bo found Ayatuablo addition to the nillitary history of tha ae. THEOLOGICAL WORKS. A now work, ontificd “ History of tho He- brows’ Second Commonwealth,” has Iately been published In Cincinunth Tho nuthor ls Isane M, Wiso, President of tho Hebrow Union College, It fa tho purpose of thls volume to furniah “a compact narrative of Hebrow history from his bofore to 70 after the Christian ora, divided Into pertods and chaptors, and subdivided Into para- graphs.” ‘This {3.4 continuation of the ututhor's history of the Hobrows, which ho brought down fn a former volume to the destruction of deru- salom by Nebuebudnezzar, Tho styte is concise, and tho’ history 16 forthe most part relluble. ‘The wuthor seems to be tinged with German ta~ donalism, He does not assign to several books of tho Hebrew cunon the plice usually conceded to thom by Christian scholurs, His statements In regard ta tho origin of Christiautty ard mide, of coun, from i dewlsh standpofit, and contain Inthinations not new, which Christians doem san derous, against Jesus Christ, ‘The volume con- alsts of sd octovo jnuges, and ts worthy of 4 cires Bu rendtag: by overy Curistiun,as well ux Juwish, avholur, —Ainong tho educators of tho West a bigh Place ouabe to bo aadiuned to the late Caleb Hila, Kineritis Professor of Greek In Wabi College, Indhinn, Slice bis deity, which oe enrred [n October, IN, t small treutise by film, consisting of fifty ey. hia beott published undor the title of "Ni partures fn Collegt- ate Control and (1 The topics dlxcuesed kro: # Opportur nd Overgights "st Lugpe jon by ‘Trustees vision of Chisses Modern Lungunages Longth of the College College Lext-Huok." urged a closer “College Optionnts Yeur” *'The Wible: A Heot Mitls ournustly oversight of our colleges on the part of ‘'Pristees, He contonds that Professors ought devote mor than two hours a day to teaching, and that the chisses showld be much further subdivided thin thoy usually are, sous to give ty eneh student better opportunity for persound recitation and vontuot with tho instenctor. Hou mukes a sepsi- blo plea for the anetent clisales, also for moro thorungh dludy of tho English Mnguage. Wa dre in full sympathy with his gbjections to “op. tlonul Att "ns they are commonly perniuttod to inexperience und eupricious students, Mls views onthe valuo of tie Bible aa a colle; text-book, we aldo heartily Indore, ‘Thid treat. favot Prof, Mills deserves a curntul readiug by every teacher, und ospeelally every instructor In our callegns, “ —foinv objectors havestrangely tn! the fut that the flea defties of tho called wods in the Bible thut they are ad roal Le! ‘Hut how often are the! wo be * yuulty and a tie"? Polythoistn ts I rofurrod to wi fact, Dut Hot ws w true syster, Tho alluaion ty the fubulons yods of tho anetent heathen that ary found in Seripture consist usually of the barust mention at the names by wie they wore known, inane thele worship: ers. Thus, Gud, the ‘Ternphlin, Maul-Zephon, Bual-Peor, Dayon, fanl-Zebub, Nisrovk, and Rimmon are spoken of in tho briefest munner, wad with nlitost no Indicutiong of thuir sup: posed uttributes. Many of the passages in which these false divinities are referred to ure thore- fore obser and peed elucidation, For this rengon it hes Anportaut tolourn. if poasille, trom other sources the finagined provinces and powers of those gods of the Kiyptluns, the Assyrians, the Cunainites, the siontuns, tho Syrinns, the Anmonites, und other Pagans with whom the go opie of Isract came Inte con- tact, and by wh wy wero sometimes enticed intu'ldolatry, Very tow writers buve watered fur dnte this Beld ot liquiry. To the learned Juba Belden, of England, born in 14, belonge the honor of baying written tho most elabornte and retluble treatise on this subject that Las yet ip. beured, Hut this work, Which the distinguished Author deunted tho xruatost work oF his lite, wud whieh cost him twouty yours of Liborluns rus eurch, bug lain compuritively unknown In thy Latin tan: ne foe satay (Bin sul yeurd. chit ra ds hat uresvakeu of it. t bas now found a trans~ by whom it hus been rendered Into. good nn the Old ‘Lestumunt. lator, Engle, for the bunallt of thage readers who oithor Lave not tho original work wt oulnmund or do not understand the Latta language, ‘the translitor js W. A. Hauser, of our own country. Ho bu done a gumt service to English readors, who will detivofrom tblsold, but to ost Aton: gana really now, work, much valuable Inforiag: ton to which they could not othorwizo Baye bid, ry of n viola” of a Btradlyarius vlo- | anal, duodecine voluine of £ —A yoo wark da belong done by Dr. Marcus Doda and the Rev, Atexander White, who Hite volumes entitied * Handbooks for Tthte= Chases nce appenriag from Hine to. Ure front tho prostate ke Guurk, OF Hadlabttrit. Beat Jand, and are imported: inte our countey by ner & Welford, uf New York. | ‘These are ¥ paired by thorough Bibleat and although very brief may generally t the reaulta of careful 1 edving at ientions. hes are therefore tar waemt of the Suntayesehoot cums We have before uy the notes of Murphy, of Belfast, on? ‘The oveupying It duodecine Ja well known Ag n fino nd regards the ofd opliton thit Bart was thy weiter aa profiably correct. He adinits that tho etosting chapter, ox well ad tome explanatory: elindes and paraiaphs In the Peutateuch, may 5 not, of ing that this late annotator wis fhe. notes ire conservatty c not inapired, polnted, ana for tho moat part highly aatlefactory. —Philosophicad terms tone in use change thelr menning more or less In the progress of din- enssion from. period to period, and new tering are introduced ty express new phases of thought. ‘To apprehend preefsely the Impurt of such fermi Is to take in hinportant step in the knowledge of philosaphy. Ht sa stil further step to learn tho history of the chief Px pre Tons thal a ‘Aistorfenlly. ex terms vinployed by philosophe Prepared. nuist. pases ywreat ¥ 3 of studenta in philosophy. The fret systenintic attempt in thia direction, with whieh we are nc- quatiited, has be recently made by Hedalph ki 1. Ph, D.of the University of Jona, Ger- Ths work—"*Fundainental Concepts of Mod Philosophie Thought "—bas Just been franshited In this country: by M. Btusitt Phelps, Ph. D,, Professor in Smith Colleve, Thenceuracy and thoroughness of this (rentise are sutticlentty vouched for by President Noah Porter, who, b3 1 hort Introduction, strongly commends it. ‘The treatise fs mot exhaustive, but it considers the more Important terms that are in. philosophic ‘use, stich ng Subjective and Objective, Expert - ence, Monisin-Duuiien, Law, Development, Tol cology, ete, In the course of his criticiain the author ably exposes the fallitcies of modern mn torkiigm and pantholam, and furnishes bases fo the refitatiog of other errors such o# the #kep: tleat theory of Development and Iderlism. itis not possible tnt brief uotice ty convey n more detinit idea of the contents of this little” veluine than Js afforded by the description which we have thus briefly given, Philosophical renders will ave at once the general parpose of the author and the fleld of disousalon | which ie open be- fore him, The work must be carefully read and studied to be fully apprecin tod, it ought to, have a place in all our colleges and theological seminaries. (History of tho Hebrews’ Second Common- wealth, By Isaac M. Wise, President of the He- brow Union College. “Cinclunath, Price $2.) (New Departures in, Collegiate Control and Culture. Hy tho Kev, Caleb Mills, A.8. Darnes & Cor New York aud Chicago.) (Tho Fabulous Gots Denounced In tho Bible. ‘Trnnslated trom Helden's * Syrian Deltics.” By W. ah. Haan Philadelphia: J. 8, Lippincott & Co, Price & (The Books of Chronleles. By Jawes G. Mur- By LL.D... 0. Edinburg: T. & T. Clark, Price W cents.) «Tho Fundamental Concopts of Sfodern Phito- sophie ‘Thought Critically and Historically Con~ aidored. Hy adel Eucken, Ph, Dy Profess sorinJena. Iranslutea by M. Stuart Phelps, Vh,0, New York: D. Appicton & Co, Price $1.70.) RW. B, MAGAZINES. Tho'contentsof the July number of the Amert- can Naturalist are unusually vari ‘Tho Karly Use of Manures by Primitive Man" {6 discussed by Mr. Guode, of thu Untted States Fish Com- mission; Dr. Minot, of Boston, explains “The Embryology of Sponges," and Mr. Jonson de- serlbes “Tho Ornithology of tho, Wiluinctto Valley of Orevon"; Dr. Packard, of Brown Unt- vorsity, clucidntes tho obscure subject of “Tho Eyes of Trilobites;" and Mr. Kingsley, of Will- jams Collego, gives an necount of * The Progress of tho Science of Crabs, Lobsters, ete., during Iss," Thero sre numerous book-reviews, and reports of the progress [nu most of the depart. menta of Natural Science, There are speeint notes hy Messrs. Cox, Cope, Ballon, Yurnall, Gatachett, and othors, The historicul articles in the Juno number of tho Magazine of American History nro two in number, entitle respectively, “Tho If River and its Barly Names, with a May and “ Sullivan's Expedition Against the Six Nations, 177." ‘The biographieal article 18 on Col. Sam~ uol Blatebley Webb," with an original ctehed it, The transintod urticles are ulso two in 2, 14% Diary of 2 Froneh Olltcer, Ald to Nochambean,” Purt LY., and * Freneh EF gincer's donrnal of the Biege of York.” ‘The “ Notes, Queries, and Keplics" nro full and ine teresting? and umony the Literary Notices" fare reviows of “ Sewnll’s Diary" by B. FP. De Costa and W. Cary Smith. —The articles in tho July number of tho Princeton Review are us follows: “'Pho Position of Biuglund in the Bust," by Canon George Raw- Hnson, of the University of Oxford; “Tho Tho- ory and Practice of Elections," by Prof. William G. Sumner, Yale College; * Genesis of Sin,” by George Dina Boardman, D. D,, Philadelphia; flgaie Perlod of’ Man,”' by Alexundor MacWhorter: “ Principlea of Taxation,” by Francis A, Walker, Ph. D., Washington; * The Philosophy of Educatton," by Prof. 8, 8. Laurie, University of “Edinburg: “Development and Growthot Conscience,” by President McCosh of Princoton College. : LITERARY NOTES. M, E. Fraser-Tytler bas a now novel {n preas. —A now jouronl of ttorature, called tho Pen, has beou started in England, —The final and most interesting part of Prince Motternich's “Memoirs” will appoar in tho au- tum. —"Oliver Cromwoll" will bo ono of the carly volumes pow arranged for Iu G. P. Putnam's Sons’ new Plutarch serics, ‘ —The final yolume of Greon’s “ History of tho English Peoplo,” bringing tho story down to tho year of Waterloo, Js Just out Ju London, —A London odition of the Iide Awake maga- zing Is lo be brought out by James Clarke & Co. Publishers of the London Christian World, i =A London publisber has managed to bring. out the New ‘Testament, with maps and Mlustras Hons, $0 us to make money at two couts a copy. —Geurge Rt, Lockwood has published a popus Jnr edition of “Just Ono Day," brought out anonymously est year, lta author fs Jolin Habe ‘berton, —Miss Yonge's “Three Iirides” Ia the newand eleventh volume In Mavmillun & Co.'s new We trated edition of the novels and tales ut this author, —Tho twelfth annual session of the American Philolugleal Association will be held at Phila- delphingin the rooms of the Atuerican: Pallo- sophluti Society, on Tuesday, July + —Canon Farrar’é new voluine of sermons under the titlaaf * Ephphathu; or, Tho Amolio- nition of the World,” will bo iastiud by Muctntllan & Co. [ti an Auioricun reprint next wook, —Dr. Kdward Everett Hale will publish, through itoberta Hrothors, in duly, uniforin with Ita * Man Without a Countryy 6 new volume of hetian ontitled "Crusoe ia New York and Other tories.” —Mr, 8. ‘W, Pennypacker's “Bettlomont of Germantown," a procurable pamphlet, containg tho frat public protest ever mide on thla conti~ nont nguinst the holding of slaves. Its dute is Fob 4 1638, ° —Tho soventconth volume of tho “Amorl- can Devlslous ts juat out, giving decisions from fourteen yoluines of reports, and cover= Ing the yours 185 to 16%, A, L, Hahcroft & Co., publhiners, San Francisco, tho Political Comedy of Ettrope,* by 1), Johuson, fssued by Bampsun, Low & Co, London, and Ke Plon & Co,, Purls, has boon suppressed in (ermany by the futleg aulhoritios, undor tho wet passed Oct, 21, 878,» aguinat tha’ dangerous practiova of Sooiattsta,)* —Tho old strife us to tho historical value of Dr, Behlicniann’s discoveries haa broken out sgn; wud this tline the tusslan Stephin, and with him the itustan arehwologints gonetully, devlare that Dr, Schiiemunn's discoveries belong to ap age 2,000 years more moter thun he assurta, —Of “Songs of tho Bpringtides" the Suture day Review wuya: © JU seums seureely possible to us that Mir, Swinburne's book will’ prove any thing wore than pouticut caviar, Like cavinru, It hus a sale seu tastes it savors of what Plato culls "tho bitter, brackish element; und it can only be much rellabed, wo feur,by professlonul tasiors of poetry.” —The "Now Plutarch" gerics is growing in smportanc rranqementa have been, made for tub iasne of Paul's “Ollver Cromwell"; Mr, Waller Pollock id engaged upon a “Life of Sir Franela Drake"; Croft, Palmer's“ Haroun al Ttaaehid " and Mr, Rdward Dicey’s Victor Eme manuel" aru in the press; aud Blessrs. Besaut and Hico are engaged upon * Whittington, Lord Mayor of London. —According to tha Athenwtwn tho first edition of the revised trausiation af the Now Pestament ‘bo ospecied in the aututin, Tho Athenwum udds; it ta with regret thatwo hear it anid that tho form in which ull Mug iishinon, know, und most of them use, the Lonl's Prayer ty 10 Tonger to be the form whieh Ia to pass current, We shall rejuice if tho reps ty whien 6 widely elreutated, proves tncorreat, —Tho attempt tu translate the best novels of all foreiyn countrica toto English bas been put fato the hands of Mf. earl Van Laun, the trans. Jator of Tulne’s "Ku ruture,”” wad oO: Molfére’s dramatic worl py a London publish Ing bouse, M, Van Laut’ will be neelstod by Suto Of tho moyt experienced of tho translutors of tho present duy, and euch novel will bo pub- llsbod, not only with the sanction of the au- thor, but, if posible, elmultaucqualy with tho Et original work. The Rival Doctors,” from tho Fronch of A. Lapointe, beging tho tho recand volume will Be Rerthet’s “erg Leynay,” transtated hy Gilbort Venabili ~The fifth volume of Judge Hradwell's "A! petinte. Court Reporta’ fa just out, gotten up in bis usted nent style. and conttining ai the ree opinions ef the First Distelct te 1880; nil the remaining opinions District up to the June term, be the remaining opinion f the Third Distri ip to the May term, 1880; aud a partor tho opinions OF ane Fourth District of the Febrinry term, pet In the hin contri me —Moscow Intely lost a self-taught partanot teat Surakott, | Since Pai butions to the Russie by 1877 no than thee eal poms had appeared. They popular, and gained bia wide reputation. nowing that pootry seldom pays peeuntarty, Surnkort wisely atuck to bta trade, and imfeht De aeon working in his shop in one of the murkets of Mosvow, with n sheet or two of piper near him for Jotting down a verse or two which might vomne Into bis head a4 he soldered a kettle, Mr. Gindstone has addremed n letter to Mr. Qeorge M, Towle, of Bostun, in acknowledgment of nnattlole Mr, ‘Tawte wrote about hin for the series called" Cortuin M Mark," whieh ap- peured from Mr. Towle’s pen in a recent number Uf Good Company, a Springtield, Sisk. perionice al, After thanking Mra‘Towle for rending him neopy of tho puporignd saying that the pralye “is far too liberal.” he nits only one of tho items eet down tn the othoralde dol taka any exception. 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Translate y Dr, Ke Prantl. ‘fwo hundred und keventy: iustritions, Philadelphia: J.B, Lippincott & Co, SCIENCE, SCIENTIFIC WORKS. ‘The geological survey of Alabama presenta the spectacle of a herole struggle in behalf of science, Prof, Eugene A, Smith, of the Univer- sity of Alubuma, iy at present the Geologist In charge.’ Without pay for hia the, with an ap propriation of but €600 4 year from the State to provide forthe expepse of tho publication of Teports and for tho nctuul outlay Incurred in ‘various ways, he hg succeeded.in producing a work which will compare favurably with that done In any State in the Unton, To htm fs lnrguly due the credit for the devol- opment of tho — great. iron inter ests of Alubamit since the decline of tho cotton and sugar industries, Thus tho In- significant expenditure by the General Assem- Diy haa more than repald tho people for in merely nominal increase of taxutton, The first systemitia fexumiuntion into the gente Tent structury of the State was begun In 1817 by Michael Tomes, then Professor of Mineralogy, et, in. tho Mtate University. He-spent four months In the feld. At that time reports were uinde to the Hoard of Trustecs nd occasional oxtracts published in tho Tuscaloosa press, In AH8 the Professor wus appolnted Stato Gevtogist Tho expenses of the {nvestiitions were then borne by tho Unlyersity, and tho cost of the flrat publication, in 1860, by tho State. in 185+ agenerit agrienttural and geulogicnl survey was 1 with ih appropriation of $10,000, exclusive of the salary of the State Geologist. Aioong those connected with the survey at thactine was Dr. John W, Malle now of tho University of Virginia, who, on tl decouse of Prof. ‘Youmcey in 187. became Supers Intendent. ‘The War soon after interfered with operations. It waq not until dune, 1861, that tho survey was resnmed with rot, Eugene A. Smith agitshead. Kuch report contains an Interest- ing series of papers, t hand ane gualreports for tha i inclualve, Tho urticles incorporated bear the iwarks of caret an palnsiuking = work, Aalde from the general reporta are two special pudllentions, one an ontline of the geology of tho Btute, with an exeqilent map, which shows, that the voul mensures poyer one-fourth of tho’ Stute,and the other ay the iron-ores of fn he bait, extructed from” the Procecdinga o| American Awuclation for te Advancement a chee. Were tho resources of the Stute, ue indica! td by these publleations, fully developed, Aln- bama would specdily” m6 one of the first Stutes In the Union, ¥ —Drazil 1s tho paradise of the naturalist, Per- haps no country of the earth {s moro prolife in biglogleal representatives of tho most interest- ing and inysterious churactey, Whatever comes from there through competent persons ia eagerly porused. Brazil, the Amazons and tho Const,” by Mr, iL H, Sinith, ta especially Inters esting from the connection which Prof. @. I’, Hartt, of tho Braziilun Geologie Commission, had with It, Besides: pein a work of general interest on account of its descriptions of Brazil. Jan life, it fs espectally rich In it# discussions of untural history topics and tho: geology anil phyateal ography oof the | Amnzoninn valleys, ‘Thue’ inairations’ of, the work are superb and necurate, Amon other things In ite cleh table of gontents are sketches of the P Atunzon, the Pura (fort) the rivereplatn, Sune tarem, American farmersan tho <Amuzon, tho favests, zoltogical gleautugs, the ‘Topalos, tha North shure, the Curna, an tndiin ville, down: tho coual, social life at Rio, the story al coffer, ote, One of the inost entertaining of the gen eral features of the work fs the chapter on the hg and folk-lore of the Ammuzontan Indias. ‘Thoro are upwirds of 200 Hitatrationand mapa. —Tho Quarterly Luictin of tho Nutail Orni- thotogical Club deserves especial cromt for tho ood serviee it bas done for the xclence in which, tis interested, It has entered its elxth feat ot existence, and, as will be econ by the following table of contents of the list two: mirmbers, tt supported by the most eminent orntthologicul Vyhte of thoage, For January: “Notes on the Thitadelpfa Vireo,” by Wiliam Beonstery "It marks on the Nieltalony of tho Rod Crodsblll by Kugenel, Mickel; * Minncsote Ornithology by Musura. Roberts and Henuers Nosting of Avadiin and Yralls Flycatehe-s in Missonrl,”* by Dr. Elilott | Coues; a Six Species ot irda Now to lillunis, by Robart Ridzownys Additions! Cases of Albluism and Moianism ot Birds.” by Ruthoven Deane; An Afturioon in tho Vicinity of St, Michel's, Aluxkn,” by Bd- ward" Nokon? “On Current Objectionable Names of North American Ornithology,” Aside from this aro aunotavons on thirty-Nve speoles, made in all’ quarters at the country, In the April number are the following Interesting pu- pane + List of Ocuurronces of North American Birds in Burape,” by J. Dulgiivh; * Noted on tho Winter-Phiumago, of thy Hopburn's Finehes,"" bs i. . Notesou Aweriean Vultures," by Robort Kidgeway; "On Kecout Additions to tha Or- nithotogieal Fauna of the Untted States,” by J. Altea tier and, Queries Conerrning the Nomonclature of Nurth American Wirds," by Dr, Elllott Cones, U, 8. A. Phila number hay notes on some twenty-five spevics of wi ies ,, SCIENTIFIO NOTES, During 1881 no; loss than Ave exhibitions wilt be held at Frankfort-on-the-Ruin—viz,s avatont exhibition, a hortivultural, a balnvologicsl, att industrial, and 4 tanuors' and furrlora’ uxhlbi- ton, —Tho French Guyergment hus taken an {im- portant atop inthe cduaation of tho people; A course of teaching In ugrioulturo haa beon or- dered to be introduced foto every primary school in the country, —Tho Parle Academy of Belonces has uwantod the Monthyon prize to B., Camillo Flammarion for bia now work entitled “Astronomia Popu- latre." 1¢ faa turyo 4to volume, with maguiile cont ongeavings, which was sold in 100 penny purta, tthe wade {a tay frst year of publivation Teuctied 40,000 copies, é - —Tho best quality of allve-oll, according to tho Hulletin @Truduatrie, i volined by propuring large, shallow thy boxes, with bolea plerced in the bottou, and which [a then vovered with 1 thin wheut of wadding, | Faury tlVo, or tory of thudw boxes ure plucod on trues aie above the other; and the oll, poli Snoured in at the tap box, souks throuyh the wudkllng and drops to tha: hext box, and thud on the last, when it fs allowed to run off into tanks, ‘Tho effect of wadding in thls arrangement bs to abverd wll tho thick paxtl- cles contained In tha olf when it comes from the ne and to leave (t perfeetly clenr and taate- uaa, —A block of coppor nhout eight Inches lone, and welghing six to elght pounds, was found Tat week, about three and n half feet below thoatr- Taco wut Geneva Lake, Wis. while exeavating for weellar, on the land af Capt, Wiley Mt. Esra, Its irregular ahupe precludes tho fdea that It was fashloned ag an implement, = Mr. tt. Jack, the Governinent Geoloaist Queensland, hus been carrying: HRN eee Operations under difficulties mninimwn to hone geologists, “White he and hls party were puirat= ing thelr exploritions fy thé north of York. Po niisula they were attacked by nband of natives, Mr, luck reviving a apenr tn the ueek. which had to bu cut out. Fortunately the wound, though troublesome, 1s not Ikely to be uttonded with any serionts or permanent resitits. ~—Tho expansion of glass by hent may bo don- onstratedas follows: “\aflaga tubo, 6f. magroy bore and about elzhteen inches tong ts heal round In the shape of horseshoe, so. that the free ends are within a millimetre of one anathor. Between these ends avoin may bo held.’betr nipped between tho ends of the rod and held there by the grasp duc to the elasticity of tha wins. If now tho outer portion of the curved pares snrmnod, the ends open stlabtiy nae tho 8 Ot. is experiniont is niga die the Ingenulty of Mr. Iedont. is Mr. W. P. Johnson gives an account in the Phtosophieal Magazine of 1 new use ot the telr~ phone, It{s sometimes necessary to grapple and lift a faulty cable, and if ft Hes tu the water along with other cables of similar exterior maka it has hitherto been itiposaible to deelde, with out cutting it apart, on tho Identity of the 4 pled portion, ‘To avold the obvious tne to cut and eplice the cable unnecesaarily, It 1s How sugested to employ the telephone onan auxiliary parallel wire in which the inditetion miny bo guilielently strong to enable the clee- tricinns In churge to read the aluonla which may be sent into tho cable, and no identify It. —Tho Stewart lamp ts.one of tho Jatest nov- eltles In cleotrie ght regulators, A carbon rod of considerable length descends — vertically through the centre of a metat tube formed into the Atnpe of a ring, a piece of insulated carbon inced ath the enrbon rod preventing tho iter froin futling., The electeio ure Is formed between the Inside edge of the ring electroto and the lower end of the carbon rod. ‘There is now of water through the motal tube: to keep tho ntier eool Tho jue 43 Mghted by an electro-magnet bringing the metal electrode momentarily into coutnet with the exrbon rod, ‘This lamp is gold to burn a long time without any attention. Iced tox Inn nico as well ns a fashionabte drink for summer meals, Mut it ia not so. gen= erally wmderatool that tho best iced ten Is not steepel In hot water, Just try “steeping” It forafew hours in colt water, using a Uttle more tex than for the hot Heverage, and having it strong chough to be wénkoned "with Jeo water when it is served. The vor (and effect are much better the hot-water method, And, by tho way, the same plan is coming to be recognized ns tho best for tho preparation of many of tho herb tens used for meaieinnl purposes, eapecl- ally such ns thoroughwort (boneset) and othors, which, steeped in hot water, prodies an une pleasant and undesirable nausea. ‘This effect is obviated by steeping in cold water, and tha tea ean be made much stronger, ond used to better advantage. HE DOES’T RATIFY. Ex-District Attorne: Lathrop, of Springfeld, Mans, Walks Out of tho Democratic Party. SPRINGFIELD, Mass. Juno 25, 1880.—The Hon. Jonas H, French, Chatrman Democratic State Cen- tral Committce—My Dear Stitt: Thereby resign my. membership of the Democratic Stato Central Cummittec. ‘My reasons nro, that I am not in accord with the results of tho Inte National Convention. In saying this I ect up no egotistical individual opinion agalnst the collected wisdom of the Con- yenuon, but L am only reserving the right to myself of the exercisy of private judgment ag a xuide to ny political action, and of legitimate criticism of party performance; for I believe that, when a. party or person ceases self-critl- claim, progression stopR. While thore Js ttle deference in the two Bret parties as illustrated by thelr declarations of priuciples, and_clther Kood enough to de. serve success, the Democratic party, instead of rving it by commenduble action before the cop has chosen to fritter away its energy und ability in factions fighting within ita own dines in several States, to the end that a few “men night * boss" the grert mass and majority: of loyal and honest citizens who are tho power and should be tho pride of the pcre 1 believe that the great walking rinks of both parties honestly desire clean luws and fewer of them, pure elections and uncorruptible candidates in poth Staty aud Nation; und [do not betlove tnt, at ygrent convention fs yet reduced of necessity Oe search for tocre avallability or for money alone. Luccord in heartiness, applause and great de- serving to tho great und goad soldier upon whom the Convention bas placed the badges of Loner and of lendership; but I cannot forget, or evan to regret ng yet, that with men In the party, aud represented “in' tha Convention, of approved stafesmunship and ability and unuasnilable in- tegrity, ripe in civic Judgment and attvian and foremost in tho wifections of the peapt they were pussed by for one whose kuown ely quntitics aro mostly"negntfons, snd whose career is bluzuned only ‘by tho red’ Nght of inilitary achievements, ‘One of the chief fundamental tonota of Dem- ocratic faith, and tho bad.o of real Democracy, Ja the ancient rightof the majority tonne, It reaalned for a Demoerntio National Conven- don In 1880, by Its necredited Committee, to gon- trovert thls doctrine, ‘The representatives of 00,000 Massachusotta Democrats were cone fronted at tho Convention by u few men clulm- ing to bo * regular” rather Chan right, who pre- sented ng tholr credentints for recognltion tha wreek of tho “ Ark," und tho remunnt of tha autocratic netion of tha repudiated Sint Ci teat Comuilt of 1878; and thi who for two years In Massuchuse under tho adopted pirutical minx! ruln,” preferring the purty defeuted rather thin tho attalnment of auecess the frilte of whlet they wlone might not measure, were recognized as thoftrue Democracy of Massnchusetts. ly the courtesy (?) of these representative men, the uceredited delegates of tho working 100,000 were adinitted to the distinction of seats tn the Convention, aud to the broken fraginents of HICH, votes. For myaclf I accept no grace from thls source, When joxalts, 1 tho party Involves tho accept ance of conditions like these, thon am I disloynt, i prefer wilogiance tw my own honest, self-re= speeting Judyiient, and tho right of polltical netion Indiented by it, With reat reganl for’ yourself and for tho klndly gentlemen aayocinted with you as com= mittee, Lam yours respectfully, DWARD HH, LATHROP, TWICKENHAM. CAMP, At Twickenham Camp, on n inidsummer day, "Neath the cake that stand gunryt over Colifday’s isny, How the hours like a bilthe bird wont singing away, ‘Too happy to etay—far too happy to stuy. Wo'l row to tho Catiish for Ililey that float Like the white hands of nymphs stretching up to the boa And Isten tho ocatugy told In tho note That frills, Fou tho Btarling’s full, rapturous roa: ‘We'd row to the spring, and, with pails brimming ou ‘Turn buick, to the musio of Nght-plashing on ‘Vo the tittle red pler Jotting out from the shar O shall we return thore no mure—nevermure? Wo'd go for the mitl, whon tha first dowy shade Had softened tho auntight atong tho green glade, To the little hill furinhouse, A youth and & matld— ‘ How sweetly wo Ingorod—how long wo delayed! And thon, when tho shudows had dvopened to huh When the woodlands looked black and the water slopt white, We'd sit by tho camp-tiro, and in tho red light Our volces in laughtor und sluging unite, Then the catnp-firo burned dimly, the flames, folli ne Ws Until nothing was loft but the coals’ ruday Owes And tho pate, Aimy ashes, Wke now drifting HOW, + Hale hid tHo rod embers that Itugerod bolow, And wo parted, stil gluging. Tho stars xlime mered throug! ‘The bunhs of the ovk-trees; tho light simmers dow Tont blu to tho alr; and the last soft adlou Hrought sleep that was aweot as when Eden was NOW. : JULY 4, 1880, Cuantes Nouty Gnkoory, “CIRCUMSTANCE, In vain thon strivest—thou canut not bo free, Poor wantin, whotn tho dreury bonds of Fate, Closing in narrower folds, Incareerate Within the prigon-house of Dustiny: Fate of thy puronts’ bloo |, too etrong for theo, Fate of thing nets, repented of too late, Fate born of Joy and priek, und love and hate, Doomed Jong ugo to this catastrophe. O Fatul wo weave thee round our piteous tives ‘Wile our ownbands—our foulien bunds aud ita Not aroatntog that thy webs are fron gyyes, Forged to u'oreruah ug In our hearts” despite: Tnovory murinur at ouch new mischance, Js heard the tiretess teureb of Cireumstance, ~We kb. Courtney du Londen Spectator, Baia selon eta Bismarck and Gladstone. Bismarck bas lately boon spouking bis wind pith churuoturistio, cundor 1 referetice tu Mrs distouv. Hs oplulon of tho British Prime Mins [ator 1s nolther tinttoring tu that statesinua noe nasuriog to tho nation whose interests he bys intrust. But it fa well known thore fa nd loves Jost betwoon tho mau of blvod and frum and hig rival of the ax and pen, Mr, Gladstone ts Jitst as. uruserved In his viows of Priuco Manure) Prince Uimarck fs iu his views of Mr. Glu stone, aud the groat feature of thelr mutual | opinion jy that Jf cxuroaies ayrousd uutiyattys ”