The Express.
London, England, 1857-03-14 00:00:00

NEIL' BOOKS.

ComarEsT or PERU ANII
Spanish roayseat, both of l'eru sod Itlexito, was one of
those Emil • to tho conquered, of wlrch tie shock
runs through national and social life, gaining the spine
cord of it people, and leaving them in • deathlike pandysis.
The me. in • nation so subdued are u helpless and
bewildered no sainals would be who had lost they
Matinct. All that the nation has ancomplialwil in
art, through science, or in architecture, to submit-
tlcly elided to the elements; and no man lilts Lip
to protect or enure any work of hi. on or
of kis forefathers, which be had formerly delighted in. It
is not en earthquake which lisa shaken thew miserable men.
but a new formation of their world tiro hoe overwhelmed

them. All the old eiviliaation—the record often of eo uork
toil and blood sad sorrow—is crushed for ever into a eon-
hued Deep of rude materials, the simpket waning of ',Lich
It will hereafter require great study to decipher; and the na-
tion, if it survives in mune, in but a robe, a warning, and •
sign—like some burnt-out star, drifting along, hideous and
purpnselees, amidst the full and shiniug, orb. whieh still
remain to adorn tad vivify the universe.— TA, Spanish Coe-
vest irt.elaerice. By Arthur Helps. Vol. 111.

EDIBLE BIRDS'-!tEnTS 11tNTING.—At last We
reached the edge of the clitf, which Mood about 200 feet /
above the sea, Laving loony drop (mutes in IN fore and re-
rend raves at it. lane. After sitting down to to at for a
short time, the Malays went to work. Each man drove his
'mike very carefully in the ground, ensured hie rope to it,
alnmtt his bag and torch across hie bark, and, after re-
peating a Mahonnetan Paternoster, lowered hammed down
the cliff by mesna of hie rope, and proceeded
to search the, races and crannies for Lirds'-nests.
Arta towed though .1 was, as a tailor, to see
peat
ri. activity and much risk run, still it fell far
in my estimation, of that undergone by three
Malays in POOlO places they had to vibrate in the sir like I
=Mullen, to gather surd ient momentum to swing in
some overhanging portion of the t liff, the wretched
rope by which the man was suspeeded • hundred feet above
the e 6 sea and rocks below, rutting against
the sharp edge of the cliff, to We a nautical simile,
.hlee a rope yarn over a nail." Here and there the
man picked up a nest or two, bat at last ono of
than who had lowered himself down within ten or twelve
feet of the water, shouted out that he had dincovered a cave
tbieldy tenanted with the birds, of which we had an ocular
dlogiestnition by the 'mob." that dew out when they
hated his voice. Leaving Jambe° to help me, should I fail in
elirablwap ae the Malays did, I slid down to the
newlyrovered cave of nests. Tha nest-seekere
shad ai may curiosity, end pointed into a rave
with • minew entrance, out of which n smell was
issuing which partook neither of frankincense nor
myrrh, and atom inky derknes• which the keenest eye could
not penetrate. There was • narrow ledge of ruck which led
into the cave, and as this we advanced until out of the wind
and daylight: the Kiley now struck • light end lit his
torch, and his drag an was the signal for the most
infernal din model saes win emu pained with ; the tiny
chirp of the swallows being tams up and multiplied
• thmeembbld by the beautiful whom of the cave,
whilst hugs bats Bitted mud ua, and thessimsd not only to
put our light eel, but to knock to of the 'arrow ledge nu
which ws deed, by a re an the head, into tier bin,* cleft
below, which seemed to (eased to the veep ilmsadat ions of the
cliffs. Sokilag both bomb to m gm, I oohed the M slay tn
shoo or the mob : be waved his loch goat, and panto'
uneofthom sot to spoloombool, ohm it appeared as if only
apsmeaamidhave pilleired thews ; the poor Malay, however,
Implied is me Bat he ratio upend cat eoma saplings and
lemiches ls pees a loblor by wYeh be could reach those
=illwastemilie role, &Nth BM, I could will me,
semidwshis risk. Babied with what I loot men. I
returned be the top of the Mitt, sided =sway by the kinky,
who, like agent, fraud footing white gulls could only 1111,0
meted, it joining Janakos, we returned slime through the
forest to my little craft.—Qtredet. By Captain Sherard
Osborne, R. N.

THE MODEL MAN OF Bcsistss.—A man, to he
excellent in this way, must not only be variously ctoc.l, hot
his gifts ehould be nicely proportioned to one another. Ile
least haw in • high degree that virtue which men hove
always found the lout *smug of virtues—prudence. Ilia
prudence, however, will not be merely of • cautious and qui-
eecent order, but that which, being ever actively
engaged, is more fitly called discretion than pru-
dence. Such • man must have au shunt ignonlini-
atm lons of details, blended (and this is a rare combina-
tion) with • high power of iinsginetheo, enabling him to
look along extended lines of pesible action, lad put these
details in their right plaice. Ile require. a greet knowleilgo
of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly
th=tmomant when to ace rapidity
A discreet antet
p this isrennents of his thought and action. Ito
art be igen* hoe from 'minty, ma to generally found
to be r smtleasissi, who has the art to amoral his coffin-
TAsSpartialOmegerest is America. By Arthuillelps.
Vol. 111.
TOE MOSPIIIII MESHED At.t.—Like the gener-
ality of moaqnsOlint of Meshed All (in the town of Medici)
is arranged in as km of a rectangle. The mausoleum
steads nearly in the tante of a large court, the walls of
whir, as well soder ,d the principal building, ore adorned
tram lap to be. with square encaustic tiles. The design on
am is a sweeiseisa et *crofts, leaves, and doves, wrought into
the met Inane littera The colours., though bright, are
so anibansonionsly blended and softened down by
Ines of wWei lint Ike ~,face appears like a rich Mosaic
set in silver. FA& wen Is divided by two time of blind
archer, amissasstal throughout in similar tnonner, above each
at risk are texts from the Koran written in letters of gold.
Tar bighly-decorated gateways, deeply set in lofty flat
painda, ger admission to the great court of the mosque, and
ilf.olll ram the otherwise monotonous aspect of the en-
eileasea The immit of the mausoleum walls is likewise
imenfirlei by pewee be. the Koran. At three corners
we alma twe d whelk hi heat tie covered throughout
with Oil tits, odd have mot two tomsns (It stealing) each
=neither with magnificent dome of the some mealy
give I. the leaf ensemble • par. 01.14 appearance.
rows to the dream, with the sun shining upon it, the dome
of Meshed AH =Light be mistaken fur a mound of gold rising
Dam the level deserts. Before the door of antra-Me stands en
=tfountainatbssn bright and paVisiss ths dome itself.
ear at die ammeable be se tormimly and
ameil, we my parr meal at accounts
alles=riiiires awl manewww. Ingo el the purest
gal are sad to pm the hair d lite metuary, rend uten-
sils lesummalie awl el 'Maws whit—the gifts of the
per—le bete the liar. If be Me which Oriental
to aria we en alba ea to barn that a mint of
amid wean Sr amoeba is the mite below.— Treads
end letwerdwe in Craw By W. K. Loftus, F.G.S.

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