Evening Star Newspaper, November 22, 1890, Page 9

eet THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTO THE NATIONAL GUARD. Gen, Ordway Replies to Criticisms of the Organization. ‘fue PLAN THAT HAS BEEN FOLLOWED—1NsTRUC- TIONS TO OFFICERS—IMPROVEMENTS INTRO- DUCED IN THE DISTRICT—THE THANKSGIVING DAY RIFLE MATCHES AND OTHER MATTERS. As was anticipated, the communication the National Guard column of last Saturda} Stax stirred up any quantity of comment To print one-half of the remarks made by guards- men would take up every column of a sixteen- page Stan. Up to the present time but one of- ficer has put his views in shape for publication, and, of course, that officer is Gon. Ordway. To ‘Tux Stan reporter the general said: “I read the remarks of your correspondent with much interest. The more of such crit- icism and suggestions we can have the better. They do good by exciting discussion and I hope to see more of them from all sources, I Judge that your correspondent is # man of military experience or education. Also that be is or has been an officer of the regular army and that he has given considerable attention and thought to the Na- tional Guard movement, realizing that it is the only reserve military force we have. I should | further judge that while he bas given thought to the subject he has never had to deal with the problems practically. Ican see from tho tenor of his remarks that in active service our Views on most matters would probably be in accord. THE SI2R OF THEGUARD. “His first statement—that the force seems too larze in proportion to the population drawn upon—is a point for the application of fact and not for argument or for comparison with other | cities. Asa matter of fact the force hus varied | Yery little in three years; the number of en- | listments equals the number of discharges, with a tendency to exceed them, which shows that the number of the force is prop- erly, proportioned to the population. I think, however, he intended to apply his argu- ment to the number of companies into which | the force is divided rather than the number of the force. This is purely a question of mil- itary organization and policy and one which | confronted me in the original organization and | has given me cause for thought many times since. Froma purely military point of view, | your correspondent is entirely right, and in | service he and I would fully’ agree. | One regiment of 1,200 men would be! more efficient and ‘desirable than two | Tegiments of 600 men—one company of 100 men than a battalion of four companies of 25 meueach. But in carrying out the purposes for which the National Guard is maintained I have conciuded thata different policy is ad- visable and I cannot agree with your corre- Spondent that it is better to conxolide twelve- eompany-three-battalion regiments into eight- company-two-battalion regiments in order that the companies may be kept up tothe maxi- mum strength, A SCHOOL OF INSTRUCTION. “TI believo that the most important use of the National Guard is in being a school of instruc- tion. To make it an efficient school of in- struction there must be @ complete organiza- tion. You cannot instruct in the school of the brigade unless you have at least two regi- ments. You cannot instruct in the school of the regiment under the three-battalion system unless you thre: battalions in the regi- ment and four companies in each battalion. As a school of instruction it makes no differ- ence whether there are twenty men or one hundred men in each company. Being given therefore more than enough men to make one | regiment, I would for the purpose of instruc- | tion unhesltatingly divide them into compa- nies of sufficient size make them the skele- ton of two complete regiments rather than into one full regimentand the fraction of another or into two fractional regiments, A SKELETON BRIGADE. “Beyond the purpose of instruction there is still stronger reason why I think my policy the best one. The National Guard changes its membership constantly, so that in every com- munity there are always a large number of men who have once belonged to it and who inemer- gencies would immediately temporarily rejoin their old commands, If the militia should be called out for temporary service the skeleton brigade that I advocate as the proper organization would in twenty-four hours be filled to ite maximum number with at least partially trained men and without any | isarrangement of the machinery of organiza- | tion. In case of anemergency under your cor- respondent's policy of making two-battalion regiments an entirely new baitalion would be required ineach. I¢ 1s almost a military axiom that a given number of men put inio an exist- | ing organization are more quickly available | and can render more efficient service than | double the number of men formed into wholly new organizations; therefore, while agreeing to the theory of re"r correspondent and to its practicability so far as actual service is con- cerned. I believe tha: my policy is the correct one as a school of instcnction. REGIMENTAZ. PRIDE, “I agree fully with your correspondent’s re- marks that battelion and regimental pride shouid be encouraged to replace company feel- ing, and am glad to say that considering the fact that the brigade started by bring- ing together wholly independent com- panies wonderful progress has been made in the direction he indicates, The point, however, should not be ried so | far as to wholly obliterate company feeling or to repress a proper rivalry between companies, The company is the basis of the whole organi- zation and on its efficiency in company mat- ters depends the efficiency of the whole. COMPETITIVE DRILLS, “In regard to competitive drills, which your correspondent so emphatically condemns, I must agree that they are not entitled to much favor from thoughtful military men. Machine- like movements and clock-like precision are no longer considered the highest proof of effi- ciency. Nevertheless, as one who has | quently veterai carefully watched the subject, I must admit ‘that competitive drills have been of indirect benefit to the modern National Guard movement. I regard them as some- thing like the diseases of childhood—inevit- able and often making the aduls stronger. ‘They are generally incident to new and grow- ing organizations and have no place in the old militia of the eastern states. They originated im the south and west at a time when thore was but little if any interest taken im maintaining a regular organized militia, ‘They are entitled to the credit of having started tho military spiritand made possible the spien- did organizations now existing in the west and south. They attract a large number of young men to devote a vast amount of time to Sttain perfection in matters of compara- tively slight importance, but out of these young men at least 25 per cent become suffi- ciently imbued with the military spirit to take up the higher and more important branches of military education. For the sake of obtaining that 25 per cent competitive drills are to be endured even though they may not be en- couraged.” OLD AND NEW METHODS, “Tam going to take decided exceptions to one sentence in the unknown critic's criticism. He says: ‘The fact is evident that many meth- ods have been adopted which have been dis- carded as unwise and impracticable elsewhere in the light of long experience.” This statement is contrary to the facts in the case. The Dis- trict National Guard in many things have adopted entirely new and original methods, many of which have been copied by older or- ganizations and some of them by the new tac- tical board of the United States army. Its blank forms and methods of conducting business are entirely original and have received the high. est commendation from army officers who hay examined them. Militia authorities in several of the older states have sent for copies of our blanks and have adopted them because of their superiority. THE INSTRUCTION OF OFFICERS “In making bis final suggestion as to a sys- tematic cocrse of instruction for officers our critic is evidently ignorant of the fact that more has been done in this brigade in that direc- tion than in any other command in the country and that one winter was devoted to a course of instruction in street riot duty which invoived all the principles concerned in that duty. Prob- lems as to the defense of the public buildings end railroad property ia the District were also taken up and a definite plan for such defense was drawn up; that plan w in the War De- nt ready, for use any moment An extended course of lectures was also given on the actual operations of war; another course first care of wounded in the in every battalion, a reg- ular school for the instruction of non-coni- missioned officers. The result of this instruc- ~ tion is scea in the fact that over twenty en- listed men in the command bave already passed the brigade board of examination and have sessivel cortifiestes and medals showing that they are qualified to be commissioned officers, I pA not believe it is necessary or hold schools of officers for instruct details of the drill book; that they acquire practically, and by means of tho brigade board of examination their qualifications im that par- ticular are constantly inquired into. ‘THE WINTER'S PROGRAM. “I agree with your correspondent that the instruction of officers is essential. I have done what has been indicated in that direction and have already outlined s course of instruction for the coming winter which 1 propose shall be thoroughly practical. The assumption will be that the President has called the brigade out for service and we shall theoretically take the duties of officers from the time when receive the order them out, thro: period of ninety days, until they might be sup d to be mustered out of the service. Such a course of instruction would involve every practical duty of a soldier in the field, and I hope to obtain the assistance of many of the officers of the army stationed here in tak- ing up such specialties as thoy may be most this betes ing “This brigade is going to keep on improving; itknows no limit but perfection, and to that we shall continually strive. Fair criticisms, tho result of honest motives, will always be welcome. and t warnings, if sound, will never fail to receive careful attention.” THANKSGIVING DAY RIFLE MATCHES. Interest in the rifle matches which are to next continues to in- ies are that there will be at least as many entries in the Sunday Heraldand ‘appan” matches as there were in Tax Evex- ING Stan competition. If the day is a fine one there will be quite « large number of specta- tors, a goodly proportion of them members of the guard, but as yet non-combatants in the matter of riflo matches. Gen, Ordway and several members of his staff will be on the ground and the general will present the prizes to the vic- tors at the conclusion of each match. Intending competitors should remember that entries close at 5 p.m, on Tuesday next, und they should also bear in mind the conditions imposed. No one will be allowed to participate who bas not qualified as s marksman, or better, on the range. ‘The Sunday Herald match is open to all com- | missioned officers and enlisted men of the Dis- trict of Columbia National Guard who have made ascore of not less than sixty-five out of or full score in the regular range p! ice of this year and who have never won a medal, badge or other individual emblem in any rifle match. Distances, 200, 300, 500 and 600 yards; seven shots at each distance, The prize isa gold medal presented by the proprietors of the ‘Sunday Heraid, The Tappan match is open to all commis- sioned officers and enlisted men of the District of Columbia National Guard who have made a score of not less than sixty-five out of one full score in the regular range practice of the year and who have not won any local prize for rifle firing within the present year. Distances, 200 and 500 yards; fivo shots atcach distance. The prize is a revolver, presented by Mr. M. A. Tappan. ‘Tho Sunday Heraid match will be shot at 9:30 o'clock a.m.,and the Tappan match imme- diately after its conclusion, BRIGADE STAFF CHANGES. ‘There have been several changes on the gen- eral staff recently and within a few days that body will be complete and ready for the duties of next season. Some time ago Quartermaster General Cranford resigned and it was supposed that Capt. Parmenter, quartermaster of the second regiment, would succeed him. Capt. Parmenter, however, preferred to stay where he was, much to the gratification of the second. Gen. Ordway moved slowly in filling the vacancies and the result shows very cloarly the general's belief in the promotion idea. Capt. Frank Aldrich, one of the hard workers, is quartermaster general. Capt. D. L. M. Peix- otto, another “hustler.” is chief of ordnance. Surgeon Henderson of the second regiment has accepted the position of surgeon general, while Lieut. Singleton, inspector of ritle prac- tice, first battalion, is ‘to be captain and aid, Capts. Aldrich and Peixotto have been aids for some time and have earned majors’ shoul- der straps, Surgeon Henderson is very popular in his regiment and will doubtless achieve as much popularity in his more exalted position, Two other officers in the line have been prof- fered positiuns on tho staff as captains and aids, but they have not yet decided, NOTES, Quite » number of the folks who went to see the fourth battalion competitive drill on Thurs- day evening were disappointed at the absence of Sergt. C. J. Harlow, wno won the medal last year. Owing to some expressions of dissatis- faction the sergeant, who is probably the best all-round drill expert in the country, did not participate, but he is willing to meet any com- petitor anywhere or at any time. He holds both interstate and District championships, the for- mer won in New York last April. ‘There was nothing more gorgeous at the Ordway trophy presentation on Wednesday night than the uniforms of Staff Sergeant Cor- vazier and Staff Quartermaster Sergeant Riggs. ‘They were more generally admired than any of the numerous other attractions present, Saks & Co. have contributed the sum of €50 toward the fund, out of which willbe purchased the medals for the brigade team of 1590. This generous donation helps things along wonder- fully, and it is probable that the fund will be closed within a few days. Gen. Ordway has requested Maj. Campbell, commanding the fourth battalion, to recon- sider bis resignation. Maj. Campbell's services have been very valuable and he has proven himself to be one of the best officers in the brigade. His experience as a soldier and his ability to instruct combine to make him most desirable. The general's request, made in letter, was a strong one, and it is more thi probable that Maj. Campbell will gratify his commanding officer and the guard generaliy by consenting to continue in commission. Company B, Washington Light Infantry Corps, will give its first informal hop for the season of 1890-91 on Tuesday evening. If it falls short of being a thoroughly pleasant a! fair it will be the first time any such thing has ever happened in the history of the organiza- tion. Brigade headquarters were opened last Mon- day night for the first time this ecason. A large number of officers called to pay their re- spects and the occasion was a pleasant one. Capt. Barbour has ordered troop A out fora mounted drill on Thanksgiving day. Privates William Scott and Bernard Waters of company A, third battalion, and conse- of the late war, have been ap- pointed corporals, First Lieut. W. B. Johnstone, company A, fifth battalion, has resigned his commission. — AMUSEMENTS. Avpavon'’s—“Tae Rep Hvzzan."—The Red Huzzar Comic Opera Company, which will make its first appearance in Washington at Albaugh’s next week in “The Red Huzzar,” will introduce Miss Marie ‘Tempest, who is described as a most captivating artist, pos- sessing a fresh and piquant personality. a bright and expressive face and a lovely voice, with a superior dramatic ability. She was the original Dorothy in the opera of that name, and is a general favorite in London, In the cast are John Mackay, so well known to all theater goers; Herndon Morsell of Washington, Misses Hilda Hollins, Maud Hollins, Fanny cdwards, Bernice Clayton, Bobby Akers aud others. meluding Miss Birdie Irving, the new English skirt dancer, who bas made a decided bit in her dancing. The chorus contains sixty people. The opera is of the daintier kind, and the notices it hus received from the press are of the most complimentary sort, touching not only upon its music, but upon the grace, bright- ness and cleanness of its dialogue. A grand pm ee matinee will be given on Thurs- “Esther, the Beautiful Queen,” a cantata, will be presented at Music Hall next Tuesday evening by tho Capital Choral Society, with eighty voices in the chorus and the following cast: Esther, Miss Flora B. Holden; Ahasuerus, Mr. Jas. Taylor; Haman, George E. Terry; Zeresh, Miss Jennie Dodson; Mordecai, Mr. ‘Ben. F. Taylor; Mor- decai's" Sister, "Miss Marie Macnicholl; Prophetess, Miss Barbara Maier; High Priest, Mr. Charles F. Roberts; Hegai, r. Tickets, 50 and 75 cents, at de MeCaniey. Ellis’ musie store, Season tickets are now on sale at Ellis’ music store for the series of Bischoff concerts, t! first of which occurs evening of December 3 at —— Church, No tickets sold after Ith. Hannis'—“Herp pr tae Evemy. long-established dramatic success, * 9 the Euemy,” will be the attraction at Harri Bijou Theater next week. It tells the the story of the love of Col. Prescott, a north- ern officer, for Rachel McCreery, a southern girl She is engaged to be married to her cousin, a confederate officer, whom esteems but does not love, while she does love Col, Prescott. The complications arising from this state of affairs constitute a plot of pro- found interest and of tragic conclusion, although love conquers at last. In the cast are Mr. Chas. Stokes, Mr. John |, Mise Etbyline Friend, Miss Georgie Cody and others, Kexnan's—-Sam Devenez’s Owx.—Sam Devere' own company of selected vaudeville stars of America and Ei THE SECRET OF THE TELEPHONE Dr. Woodman Explains Its Science— How Sound is Transmitted. At the Catholic University yesterday after- noon Rev, Clarence E. Woodman, A.M., Ph.D., delivered the second lecture of his course on “Electricity in Modern Life.” His subject was “The Telephone.” After explain- ing the electrical principles involved in the theory of the telephone he went on to speak of tho acoustic ones, SOUND AND SOUND WAVES, Sound is caused by air vibrations affecting the nerves of the ear. These move with a cer- tain velocity, which has been accurately m ured and found to be 1,093 feet per second at a temperature of 30° Fahrenheit and 1,125 feet per second at 60°. In water this speed is in- creased four fold, in steel etxteon fold and so on, according to the substance employed. One who stands near a cannon while it is being fired will notice four things: First, the flash; second, the cloud of emoke rushing from the cannon's mouth; third, the trembling of the ground on which he stands, and fourth, a strong rush of air reaching the ear at the samo time with the sound. This puff of air is the sound wave. The air in front of the cannon is violentiy compressed and this center of com- mn begins to move outward in every di- rection like the mpples formed by a stone thrown into still water. Each compression is followed by its accompanying rarefaction, just as the little wave circles in water have their in- mediate valleys. If a definite number of such condensations and rarefactions occur in agiven time the result is what we calla tone, For in- stance, a tuning fork giving the middie © vibratos 256 milos per secondexactly. At theend of one second a wave started by this tuning fork traveled about 1,100 feet; there must then have been 256 sound waves, euch about 43 feet long. If the fork gave 3 of the thir octave each wave would be one foot long. Sound has three characteristics, That by which itis high or low wealled pitch. This depends entirely upon the number of vibrations per second. If one note has twice as many vibrations per second as another, the first will be exactly an octave higher than the second, The intervals into which an octave is divided stand on procise mathomatical relations to each other. The second characteristic is that by virtue of which sounds are loud or soft. This is called intensity and depends entirely upon the ampli- tude. height or sizeof the sound waves, with- out regard to their length or their number. ‘the third characteristicof sounds is tha’ most important one by which thesound pro- duced by one instrument is different from thas produced by another, by which, for example, we distinguis! piano forte from a violin note or recognize @ friend's voice, This is called quality or timbre, REPRODUCING VIBRATIONS. It is ovident, the speaker said, that if by any means we cen produce vibrations whose curves correspond to those of a given tone or a given number of tones the same impression will bo produced upon theear as would have been produced by the original tone, whother simple or composite. The first experiments in the production of musical sounds at a distance were made in 1861 by Philip Friedrichsdorff, Germany, The principle of his apparatus was as follows: Imagine an aperature mado in the side of tant ordinary instrument of torture, a boy's toy drum. ‘Ifa piece of metal about ihe size of a ten-cent pieco is glued to the center of one of the drum heads and a light spring is fastened to the edgo so that its point will just rest upon the center piece it is evident that if amusical note be sung into the aperture tho vibration of the membrane of the drum head will set upa vigorous hopping of the spring point. If mid- dle C is sounded the spring will hop up and down upon thy center piece 256 times per sec- ond. If the spring ae vane piece be con- nected with a powerful battery anda long electro magnet it will be found (as was first dis- covered by Prof. Page of Salem, Mass,,in 1837,) that every time the current is’ broken thero will be a faint click in the iron core of the magnet, owing to its sudden change of length under magnetic influence. When C is sung into the drum the clicks will be heard in the magnet 256 times per second, thus reproducing the original note. This form of telephone can only produce one of the characteristics of sound, the pitch. Hence this form of telephone can only produce musical sounds and is cailed “the singing telephone.” TRANSMITTING SPEECH. It remained for Mr. Alexander Graham Bell to discover a method by which the intensity as well as the pitch of tones could be electrically transmitted, end thus the problem of trans- mitting audible speech was solved. ‘The well known reactions of magnets upon electric cur- rents gave the clue. If the coil of this first magnet be connected with a similar coil ona second identical magnet, situated at any rea- sonable distance, the currents generated by the vibrating armature in the first instance will traverse the second coil, and there give rise to undulations of magnetic strength in the second magnet, under the influence of which its arma- ture will be more or less attracted, according tothe number and amplitude of the undula- tion: ‘This system of working the telephone, in which the same instrument is used both for transmitter and receiver, is a system of in- duced currents, By-and-by the minds of tho ingenious and scientifically inclined began to think of increasing the efficiency of the tele- phone by using somo other more powerful source of these induced currents than the tele- phone itself. The “inductorinm” or “induc- tion coil” was already a familiar piece of cvx- perimental apparatus and derived currents of the most amazing strength had been produced by it. The problem was to find some substance whose electrical conductivity can be varied in some way without being altogether broken by Such a substance the action of sound waves, of all substances, that which is seen in a smoky lamp chimney, on the bottom of a fry- ing pan, on the burnt end of a match—the sub- stance variously known in its various forms as carbon, charcoal, soot and lamp biack. A piece of carbon, which is a semi-conductor, forming part of an electric circuit, varies its uormal re- sistance to a surprising degree under pressure. As the variation of pressure can be given an undulatory character by attaching the carbon toa diapbragm acting under the influence of sonorous vibrations, the corresponding varia- tions of the intensity of the battery current, of which the carbon forms a part, will be undula- tory also, The lecturer described a simple form of telephone which anybody can make out of two ordinary six-inch horse-shoc mag- nets, a wood screw and some fine No. 26 insu- lated wire. on Badly Hurt by a Picce of Putty. William A. Glency, a fifteen-year-old boy, was brought to the Hahneman Hospital, in Philadelphia, on Wednesday in an unconscious condition, When he had been restored to con- sciousness he said that some one had thrown a Piece of putty at him, striking him in the head, Mathias Wooley and William Sicbering, two boys who worked in the shop with Giency, were arrested, Sieberling stated that he saw Wooley throw a large piece of putty at Glenc By their diagnosis the hospital physicians e: uot tell whether Glency 1s suffering from cou- cussion of the brain or a fracture of the inuer lining of the skull, ——-__-_ A Locomotive Falls Forty Feet. A Baltimore and Ohio consolidated engine, with a tender and a baggage car, containing 8,000 pounds of miscellaneous baggage, went through the floor of the Wheeling passenger station into Wheeling creek yesterday. En- gineer Thos. Trice and Fireman Jno. Carothers of Glenwood, near Pittsburg, were in the ‘cab and went down with the engine, a distance of 40 feet into 17 feet of water, but miraculously escaped death, as did Engineer George #. Fair- banks of Santa Fe, N. M., who was walking through the passenger station at the time. The joss to the company will probably be ten or fifteen thousand dollars, ———— eee Meeting of Kings’ Daughters, The order of Kings’ Daughters and Kings’ Sons, embracing 160,000 working Christians.aie holding their meetingsin New York city. Yes- terday afternoon there was a public meeting in the Madison Avenue Baptist Church, and in the at which interesting addresses were read, -‘The order was founded in 1886 by ten ladies, This number has increased to 160,000 in five years, the in- crease during the past year being more than in any preceding year in the history of the organ- ization, Already twenty-four stutes have com- pleted state organizations, and there are five ial organizations in Canada. Witbin t! fast tow daye the national organization of Eng en recognized, wi jenr! Somerset as the honorary secretary ‘end Hannah Whitall Smith as gencral treasurer. The he: quarters are located in London. The organiza- PR Ree R i 8" fin, 1A SOME ELECTION STORIES. A Triangular Talk in Chicago—Humor- ous Incidents of the Campaign, Carter of Montana, one of the defeated, tells this story at the expense of McKinley: Mo- Kinley and Carter were ats hotel at Chicago just after the election, neither of them feeling very happy, buteach keeping as far as possible from the matter which was occupying his mind, While they were standing together talking about the weather and such other topics as had no relation to their recent grief Can- non of Illinois came in. “Why, hello, Mac; how are you, Carter?” he said, seizing « hand of each, They replied that they had never felt better in their lives, “Well, what do you think of it?” asked the Illinosian. “Of what?” asked McKinley, with firm coun- tenance. Cannon suggested that there had pees an election and it was that he had on his min “Oh, yes," said McKinley, “I am quite well satisfied, I cut the democratic majority of 2,000 down to almost nothing, I am quite con- tent not to be in the next House, demo- crats will have an overwhelming majority; it will be a very noisy and disagreeable Congress, and Iam well pleased to stay home for the time.” . Cannon looked at him a long time and steadily to judge if he was in earnest. There could be no doubt abont it, he meant to be believed. “Seo here, Mac,” said Cannon, after a pause, “that’s exactly what I told my people down in Danville, I was satisfied, I was glad of it. But see hore, there igno use of our lying among our three selves here.” ONE BAREFOOTED MAN DID IT. Arepublican member was twitting Springer the other day about the way McKinley had re- duced the democratic majority in the sixteenth Ohio district, “That is all right,” replied Springer, “but do you know a man in his bare feet came out of a mud house down in Nebraska a little while before the election and overcame a majority of 11,000, defeating your candidate for Congress, who was a millionaire?” SILK STOCKINGS DEFEATED. Springer tells another story illustrative of the sentiment which prevailed in the west during the campaign, Inone of the Kansas districts where he spoke the republicans wero running a man who had high- social standing, was rich and had the reputation of being one of the most cloquent speakers as well as one of the most fastidious men in the state. The district was strongly republican and a poor Farmers’ Alliance candidate was running against him. The republican made many great speeches during the campaign, but did not taik tariff, Ho was always eloquent over! war history. ‘The alliance candidate was no talker. He wore homespun clothes, which had long service. His trousers were above his shoe tops and his shoes wero heavy and rough. He always followed behind his opposing candi- date. ‘Lhe republican would make an eloquent speech about the war and then pass on to the next place for speaking. ‘The alliance candidate would get up before the samo audicuce. “I kain't speak as he kain,” ho would begin, referring to his op- ponent. “I don’ know much abont the tariff. I guess he knows a lot more about it than I do, That’s why he never says anything about it, But this Ido know,"—then he would put out one foot and tug up at his trousers—“‘Ho wears silk stockin’s, I ain't got on any socks at all, nor drawers nuther. That's what tho tariff has done forme, That's what it is a doing fur all of you.” The alliance man was elected to Congress by a good majority. BOOKS OF THE WEEK. THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN MILTON. With a Life of the Poet, and Notes on his Works, by THOMAS NewTox, Bishop of Bristol. Illustrated with 50 Photogravures from Designs by Great, Artists. In ‘Iwo Vol- umes, (india Proof Elition.) Philadelphia: Barrie & Co. SA: Tho Ancient Capital of the Kings of Persia, A Narrative of Travel through W est- ern Persia, and Excavations made at the site of the Lost City of the Lilies. By Madame JANE DIEULAFOY, —Ilustrated with 121 kn- gravings and a Map, & Co. THE NATURALIST IN SILURIA (Herefordshire, Radnorshire, Brecknockshire, and Glamorgan- shire). By Captain MAYNE'KEID, author of “The Scalp Lunters,” “The Death Shot,” ete. Philadelphia: Gebbie & Co. 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