The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1865-02-23
For the Palladium.
THE TOWNSHIP LIBRARY
Horne's Introduction TO the STUDY of the
Bible.

Horne's Introduction TO the study of the
| Bible.
| OF the thirty books marked as commentaries DC.
in our catalogue there is copy of Clark. Henry
Gill or Brown among them all, popular these are
nor do we need them interpreters of the Bible
they but the guesses and speculations of other
mems brains The location Of Eden, the nature of
the fruit with which the serpent tempted Eve, the
language which ne used in addressing her. and thou
sand such questions can be readily solved BY the
humble christian who scarcely knows his mother
tongue BY the priest in his canonicals though
nished with Hebrew and Greek.
For all essential purposes, the work Of Horne IS suf
fcient for our wants. It contains than
thousand pages, and much information the in
dustry of compile the subjects involved
Here the curious reader be gratihei with speci-
mems Of all the oriental and many other languages,
and with much interesting information OF general
character.
This work was first published in ISIS; and though
bearing the same title De wettes, is antpoda in
character and purpose. What medley of sage expo
sitions have
Three Visits to Madagascar, by Ellis, 1859
The object of this clergy in visiting Madagascar
in 1854 and of friendship the queen and
people of that island but not official religious
capacity In 1855 he published a history of Madagas
The result of his services was that number of the
natives protested christianity and some suffered cruel
death by fire and other means by the government,
which in 1885, prohibited that religion to any of the
Maagasy and required all christian books to be de-
Evered to the authorities. King Radama the first
ruler attempt the civilization of his subjects but
after his in 1925 il became evident that the hu
rnanizng policy of the government changed OF
subsequent the island up to the year 1859
when persecution abated, of its productions, of the
manners customs, languages &c. of the inhabitants
the book furnishes ample but painful narrative.
Twenty Years in the Philippines, by Giro
Mere, 1854.
The authors residence there extended from 1920 to
1870 His romantic adventures, and the wonders he
narrates tempt the reader lay down the book
fiction. And this suspicion is hardly allayed by
the assurance that "every word is scrupuously true
His visit to the cave -Matee his coonizing Jaa
.Ha his with the caymen terrible alliga-
tors and with the equally savage natives in human
form, his converting unproductive (be-
cause idle soil into fertile and magnificent property
his of the native productions Of these isles
the manners and customs of the people, &c. keep the
reader constantly excaiming "How romantic life.
Gironier is eviden tly not scientific sci
entifc would call leech insect, nor attribute
to worm the saltitorial habits of grasshopper,
See D. 255. Myriads of these terrible leeches
sts They small, and found on all the mountains
Of the PHILIPPINES that covered with FORESTS They
lie the ground in the grass and the leaves
the trees and dart like grasshoppers their prey
to which they fasten." What these animals
mains problematical. The genus Hirudo leech is Of
aquatic habits and saltitoria