The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-08-05

Impressions obai ned by ocular demonstrations Of the
dongs in the Crimea II Is entitled "A Visit to the
Camp Before Sebasopol" and Is illuststed by seve-
raj sketches and very Ineligible maps, with also
lithognph Of Miss Florence Nightingale. The work
In unpretentous in STYLE but il the more interesting
on that account.
The first paper in Harper's Magazine for August
is No. 3 of"Virginia Illustrated" We did not Pc
rse this with one half the pleasure we derived from
reading the first Of the SERIES several months since,
though il is still perhapsthe best in the whole number
"reminiscences Of the Mexican War are continued in
the paper entitled Scotts Battles in Mexico" This
subject win hardly ever fail in interest in this com
munity; but sti there is too much sameness Of ex
preston and style in these papers to give them any
literary merit That concentrated essence of gen.
teel stupidity still meets the readers passing gaze
under the caption Of the "Newsomes" Is its va
pidty never to die out? A paper apparitons and
visions comes in appropriately when 80 many people
are being frightened out of their propriety by super
natural sights ana sounds "Thistle Figs seems to
be weak imitation Of the Newcomes. The illustra
tions of "Mr. Sims Aquatic Experience" at Coney
Island are very good.
No. Of "Harpers' Story Books will please the
fancies of juveniles
Blackwood's Edinburg Magazine, reprinted by
Leonard Scott Il CO., contains well written papers
on the imperial policy Of Russia, modern light litera
ture administrative reform, &C.; sketchily written
notes on Canada and the Northwest States Of Ameri
ca. romantic tale. delightfully."- told in blank
verse entitled Vemier, is a sweet piece of story tell
ing.
Braithwaite's Retrospect of Practical Medicine
end Surgery-part the thirty-frst-i out by String
er & Townsend.
A beautiful steel engraving Of Mdlle. Rachel is
on sale by Jollie.
Miller, Orton & Mulligan have brought out new
edition of Youatt on the structure and diseases Of
the horse continued by Mr.. w. G. Spooner, and to
which is prefxed an account of the breeds in the
United States, compiled by Henry S. Randall 1t is
work whose great utility is sufficient assurance
of its large sale.
"The Duty of Americans to Preserve Civil and
Religious Liberty is the title of an grafton deliver
ed at Washington's Headquarters, at Newburg, the
last Fourth of July, which has been sent to by its
author, Mr. W. L. Learned. The orator draws by
no means exaggerated sketch of the corrupt barter
ing, trucking h,pocritica and ultrs-speculative
manners Of the day; but he fails to PROFOUND any
thing like true remedy for the evil In fact most
rant and needy instead Of to the genteel and ,thy
portions of the community. Non tall auriiio, &c.
We have received from the author pamphlet on
the Physical Characters Of Lightning Bolts, and Of
their Affinity with the Spherodal Condition of Mat
ter" 1t consists of extracts from a memoir pre-
sented to the Academic des Sciences, Of Paris, on
the 2sth of May last, by Mr. Andrew Poey, OF Ha-
vana. AS these balls Of fire resemble rather an ag-
glomeration Of ponderable substances strongly i'm
pregnated with the matter of the thunderbot and as
the other hand they have the greatest connections
with the spherodal condition Of matter he proposes
to give them the designation OF spherodal thunder
bolt
| We have also received another pamphlet, by the
| same author, on the Frequency Of Hail Storms in
the Island of cuba"-of those which have taken
place between 1854 and 1854, and of the minima
temperatures Of ice and hail observed in the island
Another pamphlet, containing chronological table
of earthquakes felt in Cuba from 1851 to ls55-over
three centuries-and still another on thunder storms
and the number of victims annually made by light
ming in the United States and the island of Cuba
July seems to be the most dangerous month in that
regard.
These pamphlets are all in the French language,
and were published in Paris. They would 10 ex-
tremely interesting and instructive to students OF
meteoroogy, and particularly to their great apostle
and prophet in these regions, Mr.. Merriam, of the
| Heights, whose name, indeed, occurs in them. In
| acknowledgment of his voluntary contributions to
science are ready to make him present Of these
memoirs.