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Recent Publications.

The fourth huge volume of Schaffs edition
of Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures
comprising the text of of Joshua, Judges and
Ruth, with critical, doctrinal and homiletical
notes, is now ready. In the great work of
Lange a number of European scholars are as
ISOLATED with him, and the commentary on
Joshua is by F. R. Fay, Pastor in Crefeld,
Prussia. The translation is by Prof George
r. Bliss of Lewisburg University, Penn. The
commentary on both Judges and Ruth is by
Prof. Paulus Cassel of Berlin, and it is trans
lated by P. H. Steenstra of the Cambridge Di-
vinity School The work is very profound, be-
ing prepared with special reference to minis
tiers and students. The Hebrew plentifully be-
sprinkling the pages gives the work porten-
tously learned appearance, which it no doubt
deserves. The prefaces of the general editor
comprise about a hundred pages of as interest
ing discussion of the three books embraced in
this volume as we have ever seen. The general
reader who is innocent of Hebrew may read
them with pleasure and profit. The Commen-
taries are published by G. Scribner & Co., New
York. ssii 49," s-',- ~ a'-- y '''-'. p '''-
The boy must be an anomaly whose heart
does not beat high with anticipation at sight of
book SO full of tigers as Wild Men and Wild
b Beasts; or, Scenes in Camp and Jungle, by 1t
Col. Gordon Cummings of the British army
This is the second volume of the illustrated
Library of Travel, Exploration and Adven-
ture," edited by Bayard Taylor Hunting ad-
ventures in India and the pursuit of antelopes,
wild bears, bison, deer, foxes, jackals, hyenas,
bears, alligators, wolves, and especially tiqers,
serve to make this as exciting narrative as
one often finds There are a great many fine
illustrations, and the way the tigers, panthers,
&C., career through them,-the way they
leap through the air, pounce on their prey and
behave themselves in dramatic and sensa-
tional way generally, is unsurpassed. The
whiteness of the paper, the size of the type
and all other things pertaining to the mechanic
cal execution of the work, are noteworthy.
tCnarles Scribner & Co. For sale by Hoyt,
Fogg & Breezy
3 If the rising generation is not a wonderfully
scientific generation, full to OVERLOOKING of use
full and curious information, it will not be for
the want of all needful assistance to that end.
Scribner & Co.'s new "Wonder Series is likely
to rival the extraordinary success OF the first,
the improved appearance and larger size of the
volumes making them wonders of printing.
The latest addition to the series is The Wonders
of VegetatiOn from the French of Fulgence
Marion, edited, with numerous additions, by
Prof. Schele de We're of the University of Vir-
ginia. The book is intended as an attractive
introduction to the science of botany. To this
end the author has selected some of the most
wonderful plants in the vegetable kingdom and
the most remarkable phenomena connected
with them. Here one may read o, the regal
victoria regina the kindly bread tree, the con-
venlent eow-tree, the, tree that weeps, the gut
ta-percha-tree, the caoutchouc-tree, the deadly
upas" that no poet or young declaimer can do
without, the dragon-tree and the giant-tree of
California. There are 81 illustrations (For
sale by Hoyt, Fogg & Breed) 'e
Z, Dr. James r. Nichols, the accomplished edi-
itor of the Boston Journal of Chemistry, has
Issued volume called Fireside Science which
will prove more than commonly instructive
The twenty odd essays it contains are devoted
to- such topics as the s'Origin and Nature of
Springs fChemistry of Hens Egg" ere
breathed Air." Chemistry of Cigar
Chemistry of the Human Body and the
"Food of Plants" The modern tendency to
combine information OF the highest utility with
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The New York Times publishes the following
which purports to come from Ulster county, N.
T.. Mr.. Dana, of the Sun, having attributed
about every conceivable i'll in the nation to Gen.
Grants administration, there is no reason why
he should not be accountable for the following:
< Under date of Januirey the 25th, Mister
Dany publishes little akount of the thickness
81 BARS IN this Kounty, and neglected to men
ton the fact that every body knows in this
kounty to be true-that these Bars never trou-
bied any body here until after the inageration
OF Gineral Grant have never known ME-
Dany to make SIGH a mistake before as to pnb-
fishing anything without mentioning the Giner-
al name, and it looks little shaken.
l would say to him, unless he makes the cor
recton, he will loose at least one subscriber. -
Respectfully, yours, s-s A DMoCRAr.
p. 81 have taken the Sun for three years.
and this is the first time Mister Dany has made
such a mistake, and its pity that it occurred
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