Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 8, 1881, Page 9

reics= ©: om Ihe oo LITERATURE---ART-+- SCIENCE, A Quartet of Pootical Works— Another Sweet Singer of Michigan. ‘ GQuizot in Privato Life—Lifo of David » Livingstone—Egypt—Sunlight and Shadow Summer-Days Abroa—Aronnd the World— Ts Consulnplion Contagious }— + Medien) Heresies, \ Technical Education—Mortuary Customs ‘—Magazines—-Books Received-— ‘ Literary, Art, and Scien- tific Notes. LITERATURE. POETICAL WORKS. Che poots are very nich Ike the poor, who, according to Bibifeal authority, we are to have always with us. Aud they bear an- other marked resemblance tothe unfortunate members of the epmumnunity who are stricken with poverty, in that. they nre constantly op penling for charity and charitable treatment. Generally speaking, thoy are worthy and de- serving applicants, not that there ara not minny most excellent puots, many in whom the gift of song is inborn and to whom the Muses have been most kind, But tho weeds are rankest where the soll ts richest, and, when Polyhymnla or Euterpe set all souls -atire, then the poorest versifiers rise to the surface, and sccm to wear the richest clothes, With four or five exceptions, there have been ‘an umusttal number of pootteal works of 0 yery wedfocre order of merit issued during tho past three or four months, Tho mania for verse-writing, lika the tullpomania of Ulolland = years ago, is one vf those things which | no one ean exnetly explain, And since each recurrence brings some work of permanent value to the surface, perhaps they may bo regarded ns seasons especially intended by a kind Providehco to destroy or kill the nox- fous plants In order tlint the beautiful flowers miny gain new strength and lve. We havo somo thres or four books of poetry, leftover from tho hollduy season, of which three may bo said to be above the ayernge and tho other below. ‘The rule gen- erally has been the other way, Of tho three, the first, in order of merit, isn collection of “Ballads and Other Verses,” by James 'T, Fields, In thls collection of poems the culture and Intellectual ability of the author aremora marked perhaps than. tho poetic sensibility. They are not, however, deficient in tho latter quality, and many of thom have a ‘characteristic humor, o sharp, crisp quality, which made them welcome when they ‘first strayed into existence, and entitles them to tho honor of permanent preseryation in book-form, "Take “The Owl-Critle,” for Instance, with its story of the fault-finding critic in a barber’s shop, whiling away a fow Ieisuromoments with erit- {elsins deep and learned on tho faulty display of tho skill of the taxidermist os ovideuced by a huge white owl before him; - With some sawdust and bark Leould stuf in tho dark An ow! better than that. Tcauld innke an old bat Look tore like an owt Than that horrid fowl “ , Stuck up thoro so stiff, ike a ‘sido of coarsa leathor; In fact, nbout him thero’s not-ono natural Teathors.* Then comes tho moral and ‘tho applicatton in this last verse: ? Just then, with a wink and a sly normal lurch, Tho owl, very pravaly got down from his perch, Walked round and regarded bis foult-flnding critie : ; (Who thought , bo was stuffed) with a ginnco tie, And then falrly hooted, na 1f he should say: “Your learning's at fault thos time, any way; Don't wasto it nynin ou t tive bird, L pray, Tm an owls you're nunther. Slr Critic, good And the barbor kept on shaving. Here is another sample, in an entirely dlf- ferent vein. It 1s called * Youth's Song’?: ‘The pnic moon-crescent in the azure alent, And odorous ylolets mingled with our talk; Anon tha bells trum atl tho turrets swopt A tlood of muale down tho perfumed walk— Hurrstig the gotden hours— Tho tremulous, goldon hours— ‘Tho winged, passionate hours, ‘Then time began hls Jayous courso to run, Zoning the fragrant earth with grace supremo; lencefurth our beaven bus beld a liberal sun, Froighting our yoynge of love o'r life's clear stream— Louding the roldon hours— ‘Tho tremulous, golden hours— ‘Thy Heating, Hlecting hours, A single stanza from ns short poem. ad- dressed to ‘Thy White-Throated Sparrow,” shows Mr. Fleld’s muse speaking iu anothor rai: Up inyon tremulous mist whero morning wakes Unnuimbered shudows from thelr dark bodes, Or in tho woudland glade tumultuous grown, With all the murmurous language of tho troes, No biithor presence fills tho yoeal space. Tho wandering. rivulota dancing through the rags, athe gambols, low or loud, of inscot life, Tho cheurful cull of cattle In tho val Sweot natural sounds of the contented hours Allavom moro jublinut when thy song bogine,"” Mr, Fiolds fs at hls best, perhaps, In auch Pleces ng Cosas Quiot Linch with i. coro,” “Ballad of the Wieked Nephow,” The Musical Boy,’ “Jupiter and ‘Teu,” but he has also a genuine love of nature and tho abliity to deal with tho tender and the true without exazgeration, When he speaks Hey knows what he wants to say aud how to ‘ aeiblished in Boston by Houghton, Mimfin —Willinm Pitt Palmer has entitled his vol- ume of pacmns “Echoes of Ltalf ¢ Contin The verses have been gathered from tho pages of tho differont periodicals in which they first appeared. Mr. Palmer has a tend- ency to the use of obsolete wards, and BANG of his themes are commonplace, aud, In fact, hackneyed, ‘That is not to be wondered al inv volume containing collections covering 80 many yenrg, Mr, Palmer's verso rung along easily and tunerully, Ho hus not nt- tempted wild Iniginative flights, but treats pleasantly of ench of the aay subjects chosen, Moreover, he leaves tho Impression that he writes poetry because It ta for him tho most natural medtuin of expressing hls thoughts, and his thoughts are therefore Poetical and adapted to metrical Inngunge. aie ie third stanza of tho verses to * Light”: ‘When tho waves that burst o'or a world accursed, Thelr work of wrath bind spod : Aud tho Ark’s lone few, the tricd and true, Came torth among tho deal; ‘With the wondrous glenma of tay bratded beams, bade thoir terrors conse, As 1 wrote on the roll of the storm's dark seroll God's covenant of peaoc, ., Many of these poems wero written durin ‘War tuted, and are tull of senthinents whilelt Bound rather antiquated at-present. Here §ea little sonnet, as good ns any in the book; Ab, never, Indy, can we hove to stand Acquitted dubters for tha Kinaness dono By thee and thine to ovr beloved one, * When, lorn and fricndicad, In the allen land, he felt the wurm clasp of your geutie hut, heard fond words whosu music weomed tobo g's own dear echoca from beyond the Hut, Sweetur than gules from flowdty Bamorcand, Ob, that, for once, were ours tho TanMlE utty Ja deurth of hopeless Jygots of tha mule, To coin the pet nt Wishes Of the heart, And grace the vintage with thy face divine= What proglona stores our boaoins would sipartt: ‘Whit ao ess coifera, lady, thea ware thing! Thore tsa itty obscurity nbout that inst dine, and it mbit not unreasonubly bo doubted whether any teddy would prizo a gift of “sumicey coffers.” Mr, Palmer falls bee’ Jow Afr, Flelds in poetle rank, but ho Is uhead of many others wha have of late soughs to woo the muse, £ Publlshed in New York by @. P, Putman’s ~Tho author of “3fothi aa” bogs ¢ readens and critics iti a epoeet dettndoae uito of 3 poem which was written ag an ex- pression nov of individual but of universal Sxyerleuce, and “trom a desire to portray in CHICAGO TRIBUNE Ste purity and holiness tho most beawiful ine stinctof humanity.” ‘The subject 1p a tovel ona, treated thus In ite entirety. It isn sone, oF group of songs, striving to express all the hopes, and fenrs, and joys, and tender cares which precede and atiend upon motherhood, There are eighteen poems—nine expresse ing tho pleasures of antielpation, snd wing those of hopes reailzed. The feeling hers fs that the author continually seutizes and feels a depth and warmth of thought which she is unable to express, She falls short of adequately treatin: the solemnity of this most wonderfulof Nature's mysteries, ‘Lhe fninginative faculty f+ weak, but there fs an evident tenderness of thought and delicacy of expression running all through tho verses, ‘Take thess two verses from the “Ilyiin of Motherhoud enutlful new life within my os, innn‘day, en Y knowing ‘ New Ufo, lovesbern, more 1 tremblo in thy sueréd presence, What boly mirucio attends my way! My honrt fa hushed, [hear betweon its beating He angel of annunciation fy, * Hall, biessed among women!" whilo I pray. 0 ae Fave iby naar tnehon lexpin, ilacs to diviner bent, Whatuni Ir dunt thy thought of lito should blos- son In me, In ne thy tlde of Ife should beat? Bent gtroney within me Godetiae, In lieh pnaston, With aujekeniog spirit earth-born casenee reat Founitnin of life! flow through ine puro and sweet. And in the “Senth Angel” is the best. work of the book, rising. nearer to n correct expression of the grlef and resiznation we are made to seo underpeath the verse, Mf not expressed bY It: Bad angel of death, not yet! My baby is mine, You see He nesttes so close and will not fret Though his yearning eyes on aine are sot, ‘And he tosses weurtly, OGod! Ig it Lwho keep my pot When Thou enllest him unto Thee! Brenk, selfish heart of mino} It stall not held hint here, My precious one, to thoso arms Divine Gd freely, thy mother will resizn ‘Tho tronsure sho holds most dear, But, O Saviour of love, with healing sign ‘Yo my broken hieage appear, ‘The deficlency {3 tack of power and finagl- nation; but If 1s an elevated reflection of womanly feeling, pure in sentiment and graceful Jn expression, Published in Boston by Lee & Shepard. sit Is not difficult to understand why “The Poetical Works of Levi Bishon should have renebed w sixth edition, ‘The matter of surprise fs that [t should have reached a first. Uaving passed that Rubleon there seems to be no renson why, it should not go on to n sixtieth edition, Mr. Bishop Is # lawyer of Detroit, anc also in officu- holder. ‘Tn the sketeh of his life prefixed to lis volume of coll tL poems, it Is said of hin that he “was never an altice. steker, aud his always reeurded polliical ofice as of curse to any oman en feet in private business.” If hisfel- fow-citizens will persist in thrusting flee upon him, let him try the experiment of pre- senting every voter wilh acopy of Is paems. We shalt have to place hin poetiea works in the ‘same class to which Tho Teacher's Dream,” “Onti Ora?! Persephone,” © ‘Tha Muse,” “The Street Singer,” and other such collections, mlsealled poetry, Instead of rhyined prose, belong. Take the first two varses of the first neem, “Ste Heat’: Sir Bruin was 0 aliant Ind: The truth of tustory we relatos Ko friqht tho wame a inate we had, ‘Tho' gatne did raroly componsute, ‘Tho horda now hice them home to reat; Tho milkmaid sung her rural song; |, Tho Sur was bluzing In the west, Als evening beams he poured along. That may be poetry iin. Michtann, the land of the “Sweet stan but it bears a won derful family resembtance to slush, Not to be unjust, or hasty In formutating such wn opinion, take a few more extracts,—the Itul- jes being ours. From “Lhe Dignity of Labor’: Genius of toll! our verse indito, And blaze along cach ine? O, give it wing and give it might, Creative power divine! 4 Nut can this bumble theme, or ever dart Celestial tires, or move or warm the heart? Mr. Bishop is not content with mortally {n- janine the English language, so he brings his Murderous batteries to bear upon the unot fending ‘French tongue. * La Ville du De- troit ? is the caption of « poem Sn which he has tho following verse: . A now world apringing into ylow, Atonce tho high umbltton drow + De Lanits Quatorze—be Grand; Tijs missions far tuo wild explora, Conreurs des Bols from shore to shore, Hunt out the unknown land, Mr, Bishop's pronunelation of tho French Janguage must be modeled by some peeullar standard of his own .when ho makes the third and sixth lines rhyme, Je is vei of Detroit, for he has no hesitation in saving, and, like Mark Mfeddle, he “says It boldly?’ ‘Yo Paris and {mperial Rome, Lit prefer, for it is homo; Our hotng, it has a gpell: Trango tho world, and yet f find On my return, this home to bind Mo over here to dwell, Mr, Bishop js a married .man, yet seo how he ‘breaks loose” In-treating ofa “hop” at Saratoga. Is he jealous of Swinburne? ‘The coy advance of swatn,, sly oxlo mects: Young heart to benting nourt responsive beute— Loor not, ye roguish fooker-on— The lips discinim, while hearts botray tho algh; Cunsenting fathora tirn aside the cya; Avaunt, thou rivull Huste bogouel But seo that oye—that langutsh! That success In curlsand tints! Voluptuous fovellucss} ‘Artfully artlogs smilo—{nspired! Enthusiastlo sulters swarm bout hors Whlle envious rivals curl the Hid and flout hor; _ Low perilaus—to be admired ‘That isa peril the author of tho above Mnes ought to escape. . ‘There Issuch a thing ng poetic Neonse, but lt. wit) not do to strain it tou tar and falsify Sacred Mistory ip order to make two words thyme. Alun never roto no horse,—nt least, if ho did, history has omitted to mention It, It was an entirely ditferont animal that’ spoke to him. But what saya our poet? (p, 62) Yea, fot it fall, tke gad on Balnam’s Dlvorve a vingulo with attaianye a Mr, Bishop seals also in epigrams,—in short, sharp, und decislye one-verso sonnets, condengations of wit and wisdom, Horo ls onson Euchre”: Around tho table, under brilliant gus, We call tho trumns or tricks 12 earnest tono; If nll our curds are pour, wo qulet piss; If good, wo order up, and play alone, Here is nnother of these terse, moral sny- Ings expressed In inetrical form, ‘This ouv Is addressed to“ Webster 75 How asyweet. tfalls Anglo-Saxon sounds,’ With Shukspeare’s ction ull the sum et It rings your numo to farthest bounds, It gives your thoughts undying fume, Anil tho’ You sleep, you wise ndimontsh atin, Lhe your majestic shaft of Bunter Hill, We have only space for one more extract, It Js froma poem entitled * Tho Albuns? and tho poct says: Permit. me, too, to writo ny namo; ‘Hut whore? With Jonnte, or with Mattio? With Katia, Mlunte, or with Pollo? No matter whore, ‘tls all tho games Whethor with Nelife or with Hnttio; Thon put it here along with Mullic, The longest poem in the book fs entitled © Vouchsa Grondic,” aud {f covers 876 pies | frdirevta est vita.) ‘Tho mine fs that of an ndian villuge that ones stood where Detrolt now stands, ‘Phe poem fs learned, and shows a youd deal of pecete investigations but the pogtry Is no better than tho samples already voted, Michigan soll does net appear to ayor the development of poctry. : Published in Albany by Weed, Parsons & Uo, fone LIFE OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE, Dr, William G, Binikie hos written 9 Ifo of the zonlous wilssionary and Intrepid Af- tlean explorer, It ta questionablo whother. ho has added much to the knowledge of Liv- Sngstono’s charactor obtained from ils own -works, . As a. misslonary,. making. con- verts to tho Christian rellzton ainong tho tribes of savages in tho Interior of Africa, the subject of ‘this blographical work dues not appear to haye been especially successful, Not from Inck of Industry or fidelity on his vart,—Dr, Blaikie’s work was not necessary to toll us that—but rather from tho clasile nature of the people he fiad- to deal with. The materialon which he hadto work was of the most unylelding kind, That is go fur ag any permunent change appears to have beon effected. ° Lut Dr. Livingatono's intlu- ence ovey tho Africans was unbounded aud enabled Shim to carry out ‘his’ explorations witl success, and to obtain the assistance of- hostile tribes, where a manof a, diferent character would hayo required an army to ald linn, and have marked: his route with'a traf] of, blood. As -an oxplorer,’ Dr. Live. Aho greatest the World. has knoivn, and, devont,* Ingstotia “ranks - ‘desorvedly "with alucere, earnest Christian man that he was, he seems (ar more in his element as py oflicer of the’ British Government maklug discoy- erfes in the unknown {nterlor of tho dark Continent, than when 1) the gown of the priest he struggled ngalnst every concelva- blo hardslitp to found missions which ceased to exist In peace ant harmony whebthis hack was turned. When a inissionary, his restless aplritshowa iteelf tn that wondeurftd journey from fanyanty to Lonnda, ad fn his explora. tlova of the Enke Ngainl or bn his Ueqwariant Aiscaverles of the Zangn Wiver, Vietorls Falls, and Lake Tamanakle, Always full of zeal for the cause of Hln whom whom he served, and breathing tha purest relizio spirit In every fine he wrote, nevertheless he seems to us far more at home—in a ietd inuch better auited for bls pecuilar talenty— ns tt Cheistion explorer of unknown regions, than ag a tulssionary Inborer seeking to found achurch and form a congregation among the dusky {nhabltants of Mabotsa dr Kolobeng. The chef value of Dr. Blatkie's book dy in the fact thet from Dr. Livingstone'’s own le ters and Journals he has been able to furnish Information about the man himself which his own modesty prevert hin from incorpe- th his published accounts of his Iu his preface the author thus out. Hnes bis work? “The purpose of this work,” he says, “13 to make the world better ace guohited with thy character of Livingstone, Ils diseaverles aud researches finve been given to the guulle fn hls awn books, but his modesty led hint to say little in these of hile self, and those who knew Nim best feel that Iltue is known of the strength of nis alfee- tlons, the depth and purity of his devotion, or the Jatensity of his | aspirations ns oa) Christian tifestonnty, The grawth of his | character and the — provi- dential shaping of his career ara also inalters of remarkable tnterest, af which tot much has yet been made known... Muelt pains has been taken to show the unity and syninetry of lily charneter, AS a man, 0 Christian, a imisslonary, 0 philantiropist, and a selentist, Livingstone ranks with the Rrentest of aur race, and shows the wii. tum of Infirmity with tho maximum of goadness.?” Yel on reading Mr, Blaikie's book, the conviction that his hero-if we may s0 use tha term—was by nature better fitted for the anission of an explorer, to prepare tho way for others aml to investigate and report on the needs of those he inet, rather thar as 11 explorer to found anfssions and mituister to the spiritual wants of any community, civil fzetl or barbaruns. Others muy derive a dlf- ferent inpression from these pages, As it man and a Christian, David: Livingstone needs no apologist. From hls 2ist” year, when he first formed the | {nten- tion, of Decomlye a tmisslonary, to that Jagt hone in Lala, when was found dead on his knees, with hig head buried hn his hands upon the pillow,” he was consistent fe his purpose and aling. Ite carried out to the letter David Hage's death-bed advice to hin, on starting on his careers ow, tad, minke refighon the overy-day buslness of your life, and tot a thing of fits and starts; for, If you do, temptation and other things will get’ the better of ae But his genlus was the genius of the explorer. With Livingstone perseverance was bred In the bone; liauesty and truthfulness were n part of his being; he was sifted with won- derful powers af manngement, and had the rare faculty of belng uble to act as carpenter, builder, desizner, wavieator or scientist, with equal skit] and abiilty. Mis getlal ade dress, simple, and fearless manner, ane transparent. kindllness, formed a which rarely failed him nis sitempeio rule tho Afrleans. “ He had great faith Inthe power of humor, Ile was never afraidof a man who jad a hearty Iuugh. By a playful way of dealing with the peaple, ho. nude them feel at ease wlth ku, ‘and afterwards he could be solemn enough when the ocenston required, Often he would -eny that tho true road te inilucnee was pa- ‘tlent continunnes in well-doing.” Few blog- Hraphies afford so imneh profit: in the reading -as that of thissturdy, honest, dnintloss, ears nest Christin explorer, Dr. Dlalkie dents Inveely with the retizious side of his ehar- acter, us though fearful that It might be for- gotten that he was sent to Afrien by the Lon- dott Missionary Society many years before heheld a commission as a servant of her, Hajests"s Government. No fear ‘of that, for before hls first). trip home he had traversed over 11,000 miles of Afrlean ground, ‘Tho Por sonal Life of David Livingstone” is reads- ble and euloyable, aud in many respects does what Ils nuthor hoped it would do: help te make those who read it better acqualnted: srlth the noble character of the man it por- rays. * Published in New York by ‘Iarper & Bros, i GUIZOT IX PRIVATH: LIFE. OF tho ominent Frenchman and prolific writer, whose private life hls daughter Mine. de Witt has successfully placed beforg us, ‘M. de Tocquavilte ts reported. to have sald: ‘Guizot is always charming, Ho has an aplomb, an ense, a verve,—arisiig from his security that whatever he says will interest andanmuse, ie ts a perfect picture of an ox-statesman—homme de lottres et pire do famitlo—talling back on Itorature and tha doutestle affections.” - Whether M, Gulzot may be correetly sald to have “fallen back” upon that which ho- had never left—for It would be diMeult to find any period in his Ifo when he was not busily engaged with sumo Mterary work—is doubtful. M. Reénan, Ina eriticlsm of Gr izot's “Memoirs” in the Revue Francalac, used somo oxpres- sions which Irritated the author-statesman, Inq letter to his son he says: “Mf. Rténan’a articte on my “Memoirs” fs In the Renue of the first. It Is very clever, inn lofty, Nberal, aud Independent spirit, and very good Ina political sense; yery favorable ta me, but a little conventional; he makes me out to bo tha same stltf, tragical, solitary person phat will end by becom legendary, and as fniso as any othor Jegend? As n matter of fact, Guizot has nothing cony cntlonal or legendary about him, Ho 3 a yory distinct nnd hfeliie figure in French history, and fn, thoshbrt biography before us we get a good view of himasnman, where wo have hith- erto known him but as a polltician. ‘Tho writor, Mme, Henriette do Witt—an author. ess of considerabla reputation and daughter of Guizot by his second wife,—has wisely Perinitted M.. Guizot to spenk for himself as to his personal Ilfe, and tho volun fs largely composed of his own letters ta the different members of his family and to his friends, Aa his “MMeinoirs” are tho best history of hig public: life, viewed from his awn stand- point, and explaining the motlves of his po- litical course of action, so his letters give the best pictures of his domestic Hfe, and often expluin tho reasons for actos, and moye- ments nob understuod fron his publie acts, A batter judgment of Guizot is formed by this work supplementing and complementing the “SMomatts.” Ils ardent domestle nifec- tlons and his Interest indotallsln ttle things witlels most activa mon would relegate to. others, are ploasantly told. ‘Cho book covers the period freps 1787 fo 1874, and Includes little which did not personally concern AL Guizat, Guizot was fond of hone, foud of his books, fond of work, devoted to his frlands, calm and genial in all relationships, He was the descendant of an old Huguenot family, and durlag Wie Relgn of ‘Terror hls futher per ished on the seatfold, ills mother moved to Geneva, and thors he received hls early edu ention. Guizot was’ always fond of gludy, and would become so absorbed In his work that hig companions would In vain attempt to divert lis attention by all sorts of practien! jokes, ‘They would pull his bate or pinoh hts ‘anus, without eyer saccecding In maklag wlin rilag his-cyes, * Alore than once,” saya bls fatthtul prorrapher, “his coattails had re mnalngd In-tho hands of his persecutors.” ‘There was but ttle of Ruyaty in hia varly life, and the serlousnoss of ‘his charactor ly best evidenced by the tenucity of the deep religlous convictions which lasted with hii through life. Ho was eminently a Christian statesman, and but litte in syinpathy with the Intellectual and mori tone of Paris in 1805, Ho was tenaclaus and unylelding in his oplulons, and thus speaks of lls lectures os Professor of History at the Sorbonne: Tewas (he says) ut the same tine ‘Liberal and antl-revolutionary, devoted to the funda. mental principles of the new .French social aystarn, and aniiated by an affectlouate re sbeet for our own aneient reminiscences, 1 Was opposed to tho ideas whlch constituted the political falth of the greater portion of my auditors, f propounded othors wilels appeared susplelous to chp even while they seamed Just. ‘They cousldered (hem ug nade up of obscurities, sontraiiletiona, and pros: peetive Ylawa which astonished and made hem hesitate to follow me,’? He wis foud af bglitient Ife, for, as he Nuself expressed hifiself its “1 Nke power eeauge. t dike to pit forth my stroueth,” ie was an. active library nian. An extract ; frou a letter-to his mother, written wien he Wis 23 years Of uge, shows the extant of his lubary avemthen, “tte sayy: “* Thave buen and am still so overpowered with business: that Ecan scarcely Aud thune BATUKDAY, JANUARY fia), —no oblized to dellver the ASS ery aulckly, to say nothing of correcting the proofs, After this coines 'Gibban,” whtoly Mavadon 13 on hisside yery pressing, Pattach Importance to 3 ae e Atinust be well done, and the task [yn long one, all the mote that the nec pesnry innterinis Area nob all to he found fy France. The ‘Dictlomry of | Synonyms? is no Wess pressing. estes all this there {$ the | Mereure, whieh Twill not give tp. 14a Breton seemed en- ehanted with my tirst article, and asked for three or four more as, quickly as possible. +» + Adel to these 1 lar work for the newspapers, atl Taslly my daily tessons.!? ti n ne published lis. tir: work, “Nouvenn Dictionnaire des Synonymes Francais”? (8 vols.), whieh was followed by * Annales de VEdieation,” “Dos Etat des Benux Arts en France et du Salon de 1810," and by.an annotated translation of Gtbbou’s © Deelne and Jail of the: Roman Empire aml by a“ Vie des Poétes Fraucals du Siéclo de Louls X1V2? Tn 13814 he bexan Wlapalitic. al life ag Seeretary-General of the Interlor Departinent, and fn 1815 of the Department of Mistiee, Legal Adviser In 1816, and Goun- cllorof Statein 1817. Ho wrote and pub- lished many. polities! pamphlets: also a collection of hls historienl_lect- ures, Among tha most remarkable ‘of lis literary works at this time (1824) was an Introdttetton toa revised French transtation of Shakspenre, Jn 1837 he wrote a short Nts of Washington, whoin he enlled, “of all wront nen, the happlest and most virtuous,” While visiting at Fontainebleau, ha speaks of inceting a youn Sueretary of Legation who had inst arrived from ‘Texas. He adda: “Do you know what Texas fs, and where tt is? Yt isa now nation which {s rising up in Aerica, between Mexico and the United States. its Copital ts a town which as yet has no existence, on the borders of Colorades and its Preafdent, who is Ii King, set ot with bis Ministars a faw weeks axe, carrying hls tent, and provistoris, to live on the banks of the river, and bull tls awn houses A rent many years Ad way events Niust.pAss fiefore he will be ag well Jodged as the King of Franee nt, Fontainebleau This qwas 11 1853, 111 1810 he Was appointed Aine bassador to England, bemg the first Protest- ant Ambassador sent to that country sine Sully, Krom bere be wrote to his mother not to let the writer of the present work read Miehetet’s “]ifstory of the Roman Repub- Ne and he jnakes this general counnent; “It fs not fit for her Not one of M. Michelet’s works is fit for child: Tor very advanced chlldren— zards fiistruction ‘or morality, ‘The fact is these works are very innccusnte, and the de ductions they draw fre those of an Ubregn- lated {hough honest mind.” On another page hé tells of two adventures he hat at Vindsor, bne of which bins been published before. “I had two adventures at Whidsor,” he sayz. “The’ first was winting the gweepstnkes at Ascot. Eset one who Re- companies the Queen puts in a sovereign and draws 0 Ueket with the name of one of the horses that are going to ron. drew *Seutari? and *Scutars’ won toe principal race, ‘Twenty-three sovereigns for me, which will baianca the twenty ‘pounds I had to spend In fees to the ‘ants at Windsor Custle, | Here is my-second adventures it will make you Inugh, bat pray do not Jaugh at It before company, as it might fined its way Info some newspaper, whieh woulc annoy me, On Wednesday evening at Windsor the Queen retired at it o'clock; we stald be- hind, talking for half-an-hour. Atuidnight, T set out to findtmy own qpartivent, and 1 tose myself the galleries, saloons, and corridars. At Inst L slowly open a door, taktug it for mine, and J see a Indy begining to undress, attendéd by her mald, Lshutthe dooras fast as Lean, and begin again to seareh for my ownjroaim, 1 at Jast tid some one who slows me the way. igo to bed, The next day at difner the Queer sald to 6 laughingly, ‘Do you know that you entered my roont at infinight?? ‘llow, ma’ams was it your Majesty's doar that 1 halt opened? Cortalily’ And she began Iiuchtug again, and so did 1” Gisizot was for seven years Louls Philippe’s Minister of Forelgn Atfairs, and beesme Premier in 1817.) dle escaped from Paris during the Revolution of 1845 In the disguise of a valet ty M. dp Flelselunan, aid. never amin hehtafiice. jAfter the coup Mdtut he definitly gaye up public life to devote him. seit to those philosophical snd historlenl studies In which he took so -niuch delight, He dled in 1874. ‘Whree tings he considered thathe gave his qpuntry: «Public educa tion, the establishfhen’ of. a free goyern- ment, and the preservation of peace,” Of his last days Mure. de Witt sity: “Ho spoke Nttle, and seemed nbsorbed in Iils reflections, Hy often evoked tho memo: ry of those he had Jost, and, as tine disap- peared In the presence of aternity, he spoke of the son of whom he had been bereaved thirty-seven years provinusly, in the same way as of the daughter who had preceded. him to. her eternn! rest by only six months, More than once when bis’ chifdren were all egilected round hig bed In his tttle roonthe spronounecd the name of France—that dear country whose disasters hind struck the first fatal biow to bis robust old age, ‘We wust serve Frances it is o difiietlt country to seTve—shoritehted and flekles but we inust servo it well, It is 1 great country,’ ? ‘The yolume bas been issued tn aubstantiql anil attractive form by the publi Jald paper, in large ty; vortraits of Mf. Guizot. the bool, Published in Boston by Estes & Laurlat. EGYPT BY PROF, EBERS, We have recolyed from the publishers tho first sIx parts of an {mportant work: lately commenced by Prof, Evers. It Isa Complete history, descriptive, historical, and pletur- esque, of tho and of the Pharaohs, and hs been translated from tho German by Ciara Bell, and annotated by Dr. Samuel Birch, Keeper of Oriental antiquities at the British Musoum. Thore aro no inck of treatises on Egypt, but this work of Prof, Ebors will out- rank thom mill, not only because ifs author standsantong the tirstof living Egyptologists, but becauso !n this work ho has collected to- gether the fruits of lis yours of patient lubor and Investigation, and given them to the world In 0 most adnirahte and instructive inner. ‘The {lugtrations are abundant and carefully prepared, and the work: will form a magnitl cent volume when completed. As the pitbe lighters say, It will supply » want long felt by giving an account of ‘the country und the people at onve necurate, comprehensive, and popular, not only telling us of the Exypt of the past ages, but giving lifelike pictures of the country at various interesting epochs, and also describing It as it Is sven tony, There are to be some 800 Ilustrations, of whieh the prospectus says: “OF these illustrations it Is Impossible to convey nn adequate Iden Ina notice lka the resent, By means of thein the various ob- ects of interest for which the Payot of the past and of toviny Is so eulebrated will be rought before the eye, Monuments of an- Uquity,—tho pyramids sphinxes nnclent cities and palaces; portraits or groups of peasants, Arabs, fellahs, Oriental beauties, Abyssiniit slaves: secnes Hlnstrating the habits and customs of the people: Intertors of houses ricldy decorated, exhibiting the signa of Eastern luxury, together with the primitive dwellings of tho tflers of the soil; architect- ure, past and present; mosques and towers of remote antl uity, interspersed with views of the productlons of modern science and enterprise, which, though they cannot be snid to bear the charm of Orientalism or the beauty of the Laie hes ate nevorthe- Jess chardcterlaties of the fund of the Phara- obs #9 it is seon to-day. ‘Chesa are anong tho fentures whleh ore brought In review by this unlane and beautiful series of engray- Ings. ‘l'ho size of the Work ts » large follo, which allows full seops for the iMustrations; the type is large and Hundgsone, and the paper of the first quatity.” . Published in New York by Cassol!, Petter, Guipin & Co, Si BUNLIGNT AND BHADOW. Liko hfs lectures, Mr. Gough's work ts filted with anecdotes polnting the moral of the vice of intemperance. fe Ia as: earnest with his penas with bis tongue, -although appearing to better advantage on tho plit- form than as an author, His racollectiqns could not fall to be Intereating, however, and ho stunds at tho head of areatend workers {1 tho cause of temperince, Ag he fro says: “My book wilt be somewhat aun one thing leading on to another, -Aty- alm 18 to interest, borliaps amuse, and, above all, to help." Many of tho jokes and tales Here ven will be recognized as old aequatntunces, ut we uilss the author's juimiublo way of rH it sSnadow” pres uF res pletures or thodark slide of tess ey Tealistle that they are repulsive—ilke Dord's snakes. But thoy are worth ‘romembering, and the “Sunlight” makes -aniends by its shers, Om ‘pe. ANd contulngs two ‘There is no Index to brightness for the darkngsy of the Ar, Gough 1s the best and widest idnowatgs Awertean lecturers, and those wha know of hha will waut ta read these recollections of hls busy Jife, although It ls not in ‘any sense 1881—SLX' an autoblography, ‘The steel-plate portrait {nthe book is an admirable likeness of the yeleran, : BUMMER DAYS ABROAD. Having made 9 short tripte Eurone, Bishop Perry, of Iowa, has written s Jittle book en titled “Some Summer Days Abroad. Tho sketches therein contalied ‘have already been published in diferent papers, ‘The ites count they Include~of the Second Lambeth Conference of Bishops in communion with the Chureh of England—ts of Interest and of value to churchinen. And inother respects Bishop Perry's observations extended tomat- ters aud thhigs of which tha ordinary tray- eler would take but little notice. So that bis work differs from the uatial djaries of a trip abroad, and will be found both pleasant and profitable reading, ANOUND THE WORLD, John Russell Young having completed his history of “A ‘Trip Around the World with Gen, Grant, it has been issued in two Inrgo handsome volumes by his publishers, the American News Company, ‘Ihe book con- sists of n series of plensant pictures of tho different portions of Europe, Asta, and Africa yisited by the distinguished batty, of which Mr. Young way the Vistorian, ‘The volumes are fully Wlustrated and admirably written, afford — entertaluing and ine structive | reading, aul convey much useful -historienl Information. ‘The work fs dedicated to Mrs. Grant. There coufd hardly be a pleasntter occupation than to sit dow and quietly, without trouble or ex- baer visit lands and towns celebrated iistory, both stnclent and modern, under such favorable elreuniatitces as those under which Mr. Young made his trip—and which aro never Hkely to by repeated for tie bene- fttof an American citizen, His deseriplions are graphic and aetuiled, and the reports uf conversations and Miterviews have all been carefully revised and corrected, MEDICAL WORKS. Js Consumption Contagious?” ts the title of s volume from the press of Otis Clapp, Boston, Manas, Its author, Merbert C, Clanp, A.M. M.D. writes ke sian who had given the subject a good deal of thought, and one who Js familiar with the medical world’s dnost advanced and well-digested oplifons on the subject. Ils pages show tint great dlf- ferenees of oplnlon exist among medical men upon asubject of the first Importance. ‘The eases cited ag sustaining the view which the ‘author seems to entertain are forcibly presented and well calculated to tend toa more careful and earnest study of a diseaso whieh has swept away so many of the fairest and best of the liuman family. ‘To ascertain if it be possibte tho sources from which tho fatn) germs may have origi, and the avenues by which they enter in ant prove «destructive to the organism It must be admitted that the subject is one surrounded by many difficulties. So many that one is compelled to halt between two opintans, ‘The thoughtful vhysictan whose attention Is callcdto the subject sees niuch which Seems to confirm a suspicion which jins grown up with a lnrge experlence upon his own part, and which ts in accord with the observations recorded through all the centu- ries from IJfppocrates and Galen down tovur day. Nothing is moro common in pro- fessional experience thin some of tho cases relnted by the author, where the death of a Wusbandt or wife from this disease ts followed hy that of the survivor. In this we might tind Iittig to arrest Mio attention were the dis ese not ote tn whieh heredity pla: sv conspienaus 6 part. But when the nos! enrefl and rigid investization excludes alt suspicion of tnberited taint, it Is certainty subject ot “special wonder.” and when re- peated over and over within the experience ie observer, the questlon of cotnel- dence seems hardly subject fordebate. Those Who accept the germ theory of disease as ex- planatory rest here, believing that the germ, Hinding 2 favorable soil and conditions, takes root, springs up, and generates [ts like, But the noncantaglanists very pertl- nently ask why those who are cone stantly exposed “to the vitinted “alr nnd wraOnn contact with the disease as tt is found. iu hosplinis devoted .. exclusively to {ts treatment seldom fall yictlms to the matady. ‘To this itinay be replied, that it is not yecessary to the argument In favor of the praposttan that it shall be universal in its application, bit it becomes matter of Interest it it can be demonstrated that It holds tru hs asinall jereentare of the greuttotal, for then preventlye medleine steps fn and dues its work as it does with smatl-pox and kindred diseases. Inthe sixth chapter, the author dls- cusses the question whether tuberculosis may not bu transmitted through the food taken inte the hots for its growth and nonrishnent, The seventh and Jast 15 given up to neon slderation and study. of the experiments which have -been mado In segard to. the in- noculabllity of tubercle, These are chapters of greal interest in their bearing upon the question under discussion, and we lay the vol- me down fevling that the book ts a truly in- teresting one, —Tho question, “Want may Teat and what may Ldrink, doctor?” is well ongivered In a Iittle volume published by Macmillan & Co., tunder the name and tithe of Food for the Tnvalld, the Convalescent, the Dyspeptic, and tho Gouty,”? by Drs. J. Milner Fothergill and Horntto G. Wood. Grouped together are recipes which are suitable for the let of the Invalid nn those whose “inills grind slow~ jy?F and oO “grind exceeding sisal”? ‘Tey are varied and appetizing. ‘To be sure, sume belong to another Intitude than ows and could not be furnished by our inarkets, even {f ordered by tho physician; neverthe- Jess, the authors are mon of a large and yarled experteneo among the sick, and the reader will find much tn the book worthy of a place in his memory, -—"' Medienl Heresies” historically consid- ered, by Gonzalyo C. Smythe, A, AL, M.D. Isa very readablo and Interest book, ity] ““multuin in parvo,” In which the author brings beforo us the origin, development, and progress of the art ot niedleing, the shifting And conilicting opinions which have prevailed durbyr tha Inpse of the centuries, One-hnlft of the volume fs given up to what the author terms “a ‘special: sketch and Toview of homeopathy.” | ‘This is to us the least inter- estlng part of the volume, possibly because itpresunts {ttle that is new in matter or method of presentation to those old (n tho profession. It will, however, be new to he young, and ft fs on the whole a book worthy on piace in the Jibrary of student. or prace jonur. ~—In “ A Doctor's Suggestions to tho Com- munity,” by Dantel J. St. Jolin Roasa, M D., the author presents to thé pubile a series: of papers, In which his thoughts are unfolded upon a variety of subjects. “Part nro treated: fron tho standpotnt which in days gene by Jont auch a charm to Warren's “Diary of h Physielan," and part from that whieh this expression in the following -axtrict from 1 recent number of the Now York Trilune: “The Amortean {3 a spendthrift of faod, aut clothes, nndainonoy, because he lives Inv Diggor and*futler country thon any other; buthelsa spondthrift also of his bralns, which ara no bigger nor fuller than any other man’s. He-knows, too, tht the re sources of hikcountry are, linmanly speak- ing, overlasting; buthe has but one intid, and when it Is worn out that is the end of It andofhin, Mon take care of every other kind of enpital which they may nave, “Tho thrifty farmer suffers hfs fleld to Wo fallow onea fy four years; manures It at heavy ex- pense; does not begrudge it thine for the sn to shine and the rats to: fall on It, known that he will bo fully repaid by. te craps of. the yur tocome, “Lhe great Orderer of tho world, too, decreed that one-seventh part of tho Jitu of nan and beast should be spent fn idleness, Ono would suppose that n rational man would gain a usefnt hint from these facts concerning the treatment of lls mind; but how often and for how long in his life does s clover Amertean whe yes by lds braln suffer it to tio fallow 2” MM, O. UL, MAGAZINES, BMacmillan's Magazine for January has the following table of contents: "The Portrait of a Lady,” by Henry James, Or, chaps, -xv., xvill.;" A Study of an Old Varish Reglater,” by the Rev, W. Benham; *'the’ Mistletoe”; “ Subseription,” py the Dean of Westininster; “A Royal Zulu Progress Over Piahopatawot by Trances Ellen Colenso; “Christinas ‘and “Ancestor Worshlp dn the jack = Mfountaln,” by Arthur Jo Feng fopan’s ‘Tale’” poum, by E. Tl, Wlekuy; tr, ‘ennyson'a Now Volume,” by Sidney Colvin, : he January numbor of the Ameriea') Naburttliet tins, aitaug athers, articles on the following subjects: "T 1a, aAnclent Ginclers of the Ioeky Mountains,” by Arehl- bald Gelkles “The Discovery of fron Jmple- monty {nay Anclunt Sins um Kort el ina,” by Frederio W. Simonds; Fortiiization of Culamintha Nepota,” by ‘ ‘ ‘ William Trelense Neurolo- "by 8. V. Cleven } ue) the prado Desert? by Eat Lee Greene; “The Method of Diatingotafing Species ot Vopulus and Juplans by the Young Naked Branches,” by W. Beats “An Adilress to the Foxsil Bones ina Private Museum,” by dames 8, Lippincott, —We hava recelved the twenty-first natt of Selence for Alt, w work affording to ab i 4 of renders att easy Introduction to the principles of natntal science. It ts also dee sizued to cover the entire ground of natural gclence with highly popular and orlgnal treatises on ench part{cular branelt. LA Worle designed, ns this ls, to popularize selence, minst eschew techifenlitles, must treat of the familiar objects and phenomena of everyday life, and must be written ti an attractive Ht erry style, ‘Phis the editor jis accom- plished In an entirely satisfactory manner, The engravings haya heen prepared, ex- ptessly fur this work; ‘they are exceuted In the Dest style of art, and are employed wher- ever a pleture or dingrim could serve to mmake elearer the explanutions given in the text. "To each part Is prefixed (a beautiful tnted lithograph or colored plate engraving, M3 is publisied by Cusgelt, Vetter, Galpin bo. : v7 TIVENARY NOTES. Paul Perret has published a novel en- titled “ The Cost of Love.” — Prof. Masson Is rewriting tho recond volume of his * Life of Milton.” —A. entatog of the Mbrary of the Baron James Rothschild Is soon to uppear. —It is reported that the Belgravia Annual {a being edited by Mr, dutian awthorne. —Mrs. Helen Hunt dnckson’s A Century’ of Dishonor” will be published in London, — Prof. Huxley is to contribute the volume on “ Berkeley” to the ‘English Men of Let- ters.” t 7 ~—Anthony Trollope’s “Cicero,” In two yoluines, will be published by the dMarpers on the 2th, —"' Paris 074 years Ago’ is tho title of a fouilleton story which a Parisian newspaper Is publishing, —"Don Jolin” fs the titloof the next ' No Name.” Itlssnidt to bo from the pen ofa well-known atl popular author —Mr, Whittier has in preparations new volume of povins, Which Houghton, AM & Co, will publish early next year, —A son of Gen, “ Sain’? Houston Is writ- ing the biography of the ‘Texan heru, and has the fainlly papers in his possession, —Vast-Ricounrd has just published a romance Mn Paris entitled "The Old Guard.” ‘This is nut the “Olt Guard” that was with Napoleon at Waterluo. —Mr, Swinburne will contribute an articio to the Fortnightly Revere, entitied * Tenny- son and Musset,’" in which ho takes up the gauntlet thrown down by M, Taine. —Trtibuer & Co. liave in press “Mormon: ism: Its Itise, Growth, and Purposes,” hy J. Ay Macknight, a nephew of the late Brigham Young, and a native of Salt Lake City, —Mivs Mulock(Mrs, Craik) isabout to pub- Ish a new book of poents, which will appear In this country as an nddition to her volume now published by Houghton, Mitilin & Co. —George WW. Cable, cf New Orleans, is Anishiug anew story for Seribner’a Monthly ealed “Mine. Delphine.” Like The Grandissimes,” the scene Is fail in Louisiana, —A selection from the Jdyls for Children of the Finland author, Tupelii, has been translated by Alberg, und will shortly be published under the ue of “ Whisperings in the Wood.? —Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, whose home is tn Washington, has been In yery’ poor health, but is new convalescent. Tho hovel she is: now writing §s sald to deal with Washington life, A now edition of Victor Hugo's *‘Totlers, of the Sen” Is In preparation, In whieh all the Vigorous sketches with widelt the wuthor iNustrated the marzing of his MS. will be reproduced in fae-shinite. ‘ A coming volun of ‘the ‘Transatlantic Series, “'Che Lost Casket,” by F. de Uols- gubey, is sald to be win exciting story, con: tainting somo. capital detective work, and tovlahing upon Russian Nibllisin, —D. Appleton & Co. have in preparation sort of aAmerican Endymion,” in a: neve by Jol. J. W. Forney, called **Oury New No- billty.”) Like the English book, tt presents promlnent people wider thin disguises. —T. & J. W. Johnson & Co, are now print. Ing, and will have ready soon, an edition of Viander’s “Lives and Times’ of the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of the United ata awork which has long been dut or prin ° The life of Delane, tho Inte editor of the London Zimes, will suon be rendy by Mice milan & Co, In London. ‘The Anierican publisher Is not decided Nyon yet. if thls bovk Is as Interesting ng it wilyglit be it will be as readable as the Metternich memoirs, —W. EF. Draper, of Andover, wil! publish “ The Jlereatter of Stu,” by the Nev, J. W. fintey, sithor of that very useful bos Jeged" Discrepancies of ‘the Bible.” Lt will discuss future retribution—the demand for it, nature of it, and gttestions and objections, —It fg said that no less than 3,000 livres were given by Hiehellen to the poet Achil- ling_for the iatter’s sonnet on the taking of Jia Rochelle, aud that the still larger sum of 80,000 livres was presented by Henry LV, to. Philippe Desportes fur the sonnet ot“ Dinne and Liippulyte.” —Kong KIi.Chin, of the Chinese eduea- tlonal headquarters at Turtford, Ct, Is wrlt- ing a book tn which English tdloms and slam phyuses are compnred with Chinese modes of expressing the same ideas, Lt slso will Include considerable tinportant Information about China and Chinese literature, —Ben Perley Poore ts writing his recollec-, tions of Washington Iife for thy last halt century. Anuther worker fu the gnine field, 1s Capt. Isaac Bassett, Assistant Déorkeeper of the Senate, who was first appointed a page In that bouy Di vebster, Iu has 0 book iu press culled “Kifty Years In tho United States Senate,’ —Iu uv forthcoming work by Mr. Charles Marvin, entitled. “Mery, tha Queen of the World, and the Scourge of the Man-Stealing ‘Turkomans,” we are to have an embodiment of all that has been written nbout the ‘Turko- mans, elther by Englishmen or Itussians, With naps, glossaries, and muels related mat+ ter of importance to tho subject. —Field-Marshal Von Moltke hos com- pleted the oficial history of the Franco-Ger- man War, on which he has been enmged for the past eight years. ‘The elghteenth and concluding number of this valuable work, which has not yet beengtransiated from the Gorman, was received u few days sinea by Gen, Wilson, of New York, to whom the Count hus presented the compteto work. —Houghton, Miflin & Co. have In prepara: tlon, und will issue carly next nionth, “New inuineas What I Did’ and What 1 Saw ‘There? by L, ML. D'Albertio, tha book ap- pearing, shiittaneously here and In Enuginnd, 1s in two oetuvo voliunes, and 1s Nustrated with colored plates. ‘Tho “ Lify Corresponds ence of Sir Anthony Pantzz,” the lite libra- rian of the Britis Museum, will also appeur: AL the saine tle. i —A writer in the last nuuber of the Lon- don Notes anid Querica given some curious facts concerning the orluln of the ward “snob,” “Lhe word once meant cobbler,” (lone’s * Every-Day Book, UH. 837). About the your 183i Tt began to be used at Cam bridge, Eng. to designate & townsrian ay opposed toa University nan, In No, bot the Gownsman (the. tte puper which, tt will bo remembered, Thackeray helped, to edit at Cambridge) the word “snob?” ts ‘do- fingd as not a gawnsinan; therefore a low, yulgar fellow." ‘The writer tn Notes and Querics continues as follows; “1 should aturibute to ‘Chackeray's own genius the wider appllewtion of the opprabrious torm, mut to the popularity of his * Snob Papers," which appeared originally in Punch a dozen yan or sy later, the general adoption of it. tappeurs that ‘in some American calleges the Word was stil used ag lately, as 1856 destiqyace & towsmun as opposed to a stu- adh —Dr. J, @. Holland, editer of Serthner's Monthy, has sold to Roswell Siith. who has always been the business nignuger of the, firm of Seribnor & Cv., most of Tis shares ty the Company, which Iya joint stack concoru, Wola Dr, Holland retains a portlon of hia Interest in the copartiiership. ag Wall nd hy pen ug conductor of Scribners Monthly, hy virtually retires frou ownership in favor of Mr, Moswell Suith, Mir. dt. W. Gilder (as scclate editor), Air, A. W, Drake (managor of the urt dupartinunt), and othoys af tho younger men whe have been active In build Ing up tho bushiess, Mr: Roswell Sinith, who now holds a controliing Interest In tho concern, was, with Dr, Holland and tha late Charles Scribner, Sr., one of the founders, ju 1870, of the joint stuck company of Scribe uor & Co., which ts au entirely separate con- gern from that of Charles Scribner's Sons, The latter firm of publishers and booksellers still holds Its minority Interest tn the com- pany before named.—New York Times. ~Two books of decided interest to atn- dents of conteinporary forelgn history lave, just been issued from German presses. Ono a tho sperehes and published dispatches of Bismarck, the Intervicwa he lns grated for particniar reasons, tho “inspired? articles that have hopeared jo hts orans, and the decunents relating to Eastern alfalrs and the Congress of Berlin, It oirendy comes clown to 1870, and Is to be continned, its valac may be hnagined, though it docs not, of course, contain the precious secret letters In which the fates of states and aove- telgns have been decided, nor are we likely” everto have any authentle account of tao gonferances hetweer Bismurek and Gortachne kotl, or Andrassy, or Boust, at which tnder- standings were atrived nf and agreements nade, io register of which appears on any Hlecument or register of the clinncelleries, he other work a by “Gregor Samnroif,”— Privy Councillor Meding, wha in these : “* Momoirs” gives us the inside history of the overthrow and absorption of Mnnoyer In 18, asubject already denlt with partially by Hansen, Ino lits * Behind the Diploniatic Sceucs.”—slmerican. 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Translated by Ciheu Rell, | Follo, ‘Parts 16, “New York: Cassalls Potter & Galpin. Vrico 7% ceuts ouch ART. ART NOTES, ‘ ‘The artist Frank Millet is lecturing In Bos- ton on “Costume? —albrecht Direr’s print, “The Virgin and © the Monkey,’ Jately sold in London for £56. —-Madrnzo ja to get 30,000 franes for his portralt of Gambetta, which goes to the Saion. —Carolis Duran has been painting “ Ma- tino Falleso, La Jeunesse d’un Doge” anda , “Burlal of Christ.” —Works sent in competition for the Prang Christuins card prizes must be delivered ot the American Art Gallery to R. E. Mvore before the 14th of February. The exhibition opens on the 2ist, and the deelsion of the {ude will be made on the 24th’ of that Wont. —Canadn fs to haven statue in bronze of an otiicer who commanded at the engage ment of Chateaugay on the 2th of October, 1813, Lient.-Col, Charles de Salaberry. ‘The inode, of herole size, has been finished from un engraving and from the present Lieut Col. de Sutabarrs, whos suid to bear a strike Ing Itkeness to the herd of the Canadian Vol- Hgeurs. The statue will be cast at Herard’s foundry, in Montreal, ‘The sculptor Is Mr. L, P. Herbei —The twenty-third general exhlbition of the Boston Art Club will open by a reception on the evening of Friday, the woth Inst, and Jast until Febo1¥, Works will bo received. from the'13th to the 20th inst, Only three works by any one artist will bo admitted In, any one of the departments of painting. sculpture, or drawing, Of a jury of adinise ‘sion, of eloven persons, five will be elected, artists from the Clad niembers and six-will be chosen by the inane agement. C. C. Perktus is President and Witt F, Maschett Seeretary of the Club, ~The “Flight of Night," painted by the Inte Willan Morris ifunt, in the’ Gapitol at Albany, had been put on paperas ISi. Lhe goddess Auahita wag first. drawn shieuting her eyes from thecoming ight with heryused- arm. She was looking torward, wns differently seated, and her chariot was winged, For the completed and altered com postion in tho arched space of wall, tho heads of the horses, thelr legs atl feet were palnted anew from the life, although he had modeled the horses tn clay several years bo- fore, Anulilta was freslily painted from model, ng were also “Sleep aud the Child." es SCIENCE. TECHNICAL EDUCATION, Tho advance of technical ednention throughout the United States is one of the remarkable features of the popular diffusion | and adaptation of industrial science anon the masses, The Importance ot Industrial drawing to every branch of manufacture ts 80 inarked as to need little comment. The goad draughtsman gets a large salary. Ho has open to him all branches of industry. There are designs for patterns to be muds for wall paper, eatieo, seroll work; decora- tlons of building and otherwise; drawings to bo made of fnnumernble and. fn- tricute parts of machinery, specimens of natural history, and thougands of tnyen- dons and objects, With sucha field before every young man and woman ‘strageling for an honorable existence, it 1a a wonder that frev schuols of drawing aro not crowded with bury people, and that all classes do not demand of Jocal governments au Incrense of steh Institutions. What books will most ald. ino? fs the tirst question of the beginner, Prof. 5.2. Warren, C. E., late of the Massuchusetts Institute of ‘Technology, has but Just com> pleted a notable series of tectinieaf publica- ton on the principles and practice of indus+ trktl engineering, and instrumental drawing. They expla fully the futricncies of the sub- jeet. with abundant examples for Iflustration which will give tho pupil better insight {nto the subject and tho necessary power to solve tha vroblums. ‘Tho works gre pub-. shed by John Wiley & Sons, New York, and are ‘nilapted tu the use of schools, col- leges, and private individuals. "They are en- titled: “Elementary Linear Perspective,” relating both to forms and shadows; “Gen- , eral Problems of Shades and Shadows"; ©The Elewents of Dexeriptive Shadows an Verspeetive;_ “Elements of Machine and Construction Drawing" Plane Problems fh Elomentary Geomelry; “Proo-Hand Geonetried Drawing”; “DDeatting Instrus ments and Operauons.” WL ‘MORTUARY CUSTOMS. “Introduction to the Study of Mortuary Customs Among tho North American In- dians,” by Dr. 1. C. Yarrow, Acting Asslst- unt Surgeon U, 8. A. Published by the Snilthsanian Institute, Bureau of Ethnology, inn work of 114 quarto puges, [tls dealgneit ag un lutroduction to tho suthor’=larger work now jn preparation, . ‘Thy dosign in publishing this lttle volume In Its present fornis to stimulate research which will ald the author In compiling tho larger work. ‘The descriptions ot. the Indian burlals and funeral services are varied and Interest- Ing. Thore Is ono custom which seeims to havo beon almost universally practiced, ‘That ts tho custom of plincing In or upon the graves the weapons, blankets, lnplewents and ornaments of the deceased, toxuther with food for his journey to the “happy tiynttgy grout aid often, Indeed, sacrifving hls favorit horse upon ‘the tomb, ‘The varlous modes of burial are concisely statud by the . author ny follows; 1, By“ Inhiuuiae ton sin pits, graves, holes in the ground, yioinds, cists, und caves. 4, By cremation, generally on the surtuce of the carth, occasionally beneath, the resul Ing bones or ashes belng p! at in pita tn. the groutid, In boxes placed on scuffolas or trees, in urns, somotines scattered, J, By enbalment or & process of nui nitying, me remains being afterwards placod tn the earth, + caves, mounds, or churie-houses, 4 By uerlal supulture, the bodies belng depuslted on scuifolds ar trees, In boxes or canoes, tio latter receptacles supported on seatfulus or posts, or on the ground, Occasionally bas kets fave been used to contain the remains of children, these belng hung W trees 5, By uquatts burial, beneath the water, oF Yu -canuex, which wero turned -aurift. - ‘The wourving observances aud expressivme .: