, 1873-06-22

| The attempt WAS also attended with some incon.
venience, if great caro- was not taken for tht
| Bt!eom never stopped; it kept pouring down
| and in a very short time you found yourself sur:
rounded, and in some danger ct being ,oVarrnn
it not captured yourself It is said they will re-
move the flesh from the carcass OF an OF or horse
| In few hours, leaving the bones perfectly pol
| ished.''
LITERARY NOTES.
Rumor says that Stedman and Aldrich together
are to make book about Landor.
There is report that Bret HArte intends tc
| take up his permanent residence in England.
Anthony Trollopes next novel will be called
"Phneas Redu1." .---.-
Dom Piatt is to write the life of Gen. Joe
Hooker
The latest London novels ara ..wi,line to
Die, " BY Mr. LeFanu, and i" 4 Slip in the Fe1s u
and " Reginald Bramble," the two latter pub
ished anonymously.
another novel. ."-
A London correspondence writes that tOuida, ~
the sensational novelist, has celestial nose, a
Cross eye, euperduousy liberal mouth, and q
cynical and bitter tongue.
-Hepworth Dixon, the Akhente,m stateB will
shortly leave for America. to deliver course OF
lectures upon the Spanish Republic and the new
German Empire.
The Princess Mathilde Bonaparte has writ
ten novel, called The Lady Of the Rubies, u
which is much praised by her friends, as Prin-
Et6aoa uof6l6 aIe APT 10 Det anu WHICH WILL soon
be published. 80 that the public may be able to
judge how nearly right her friendly critics are
in their Judgment Of the lady's book.
The PoA Mall Gazette says Of Mrs. Grotc's
biography OF the historian of Greece: "The
life before us is, in truth, first, memoir Of the
couple; secondly, of the lady; thirdly, Of the
philosopher. There are at least three letters OF
the lady'a to one Of tho gentloman's."
In speaking OF the causes which led to the
late civil war, Jefferson Davis recently said to .
y Tarf, riur r.v;% 81,
all tho impartiahty possible to me, and after
years Of sober thought, which shalt not leave
the world in darkness as to my motives and to
my conduct, or that Of those who acted With
mo-"
Mr.. G. Ebers, distinguished Egyptologist,
has purchased, at Thebes, remarkable medical
hierntic papyrus. It consists Of 155 pages, and
treats OF most maladies the flesh is heir to, from
an Egyptian point Of view. More reliance seems
to have been placed on e1orciBms thnn medi-
cines, and no scale Of fees is attached.
A New York letter says: New York is 60
ing to have quarterly review which is expected
to run the North American OF the track. It is
to be called the International Reuiero, to be
ished BY 4. s. Barnes l. Co. Material for tho
first number, which will appear early in the
autumn, has already been gathered. President
AcCoah will DO contributor, and I hear that
Charles Francis Adams has promised to furnish
paper on the Geneva Conference"
Tho Green Bay Adrocdte, instead OF carefully
nursing the local poetic 8enius at and shout tho
Bay, makes for to crush It in the following un-
kind paragraph: Persons contemplating send
ing us poetry on Summer Sweets, aud sim
liar subjects, will please do it at their earliest
convenience: as we propose to make ehip-
me4t IT. OF paper rags to the mills about the 18th
The British Quarterly has an elaborate article
on the Monotheism Of Paganiatn. It traces Ill
the religions back to the Worship Of Light It
even gives q diagram like genealogical tree,
which shows tho ancestry OF the various creeds.
It makes Judaism, or the worship OF Jehovah,
down it's oftshoot Christianity. It does, how
ever, trace Mohammedanism to ming1ng Of
Chaldaic and Judaic ideas.
The most curious correspondence perhaps,
in which John Stuart Mill WAS ever engaged
WAS discussion which he carried on for some
months in French "a language which he talked
and wrote huently and admirably with Augusta
C,,mte, respecting women. The exalted opin-
ion which Mill held of the sex is well known, and
Comte controverted it by maintaining that the
intelligence Of women amounted at best to only
8 small instantaneous sagacity." .-
Tho first volume Of the new revised Ameri
can Cyclopmdia is in stock at the Appleton's,
and will be published, BY subscription, next
the old edition. The publishers ara determined
to keep each volume up to date Of issue, and
stopped the press On their first volume to incor-
porato under "Arctic" /" tho news of the Po-
two months which will bring the last within the
year 1875.
For the preservation of old manuscripts ne
have chiefly to thank our friends the monks, to
whom the book-stealcr was an object Of horror.
"'TLls book belongs to St. Mary OF Roberts
BRIDGE is written IN Latin in work in the
Bodleian; whoever shall steal it, or sell it, or
in any way ALLEVIATE it from the house. or mutt
late it, let him be Anathema-m -maranatha. Amen
And underneath is written By another hand: T.
Jol1n Riahnn Df Fxatar Ennv mt Yyhara tha
aforesaid house is, nor have I stolen this book,
but have acquired it in q lawful way"
Another OF such subscriptions ends thus:
'Whosoever removes this volume from this con-
vent may the anger OF the Lord overtake him in
this world and in the next to al eternity.
Amen"
The celebrated library of the late II. Serge
sobolensli, OF Moscow, Is to be brought to the
hammer during the next month. It contains q
fine collection OF works on America. It boasts
also Of q copy Of !" Dc Dry's Voyages" said to
be tho finest and most perfect in the world. The
collection Of De Bry consists OF travels in the
East and West Indies, in twenty-five folio parts,
clusively. The finest copy Of this work is that
Grenvil]o. Col. Stanley had fno copy which
WAS purchased by the Duke Of Deronshire for
f54e. Tho Fonthill Abbey copy, supposed to be
Rothelin's copy WIS sold in London in 1890 for
E2t0, and again in Paris to Mr. James Leno1, OF
this city, for $4,000 francs. Tho Russian copy
to be sold s in Latin, German, and French.
Young ladies' who find difficulty in deeid-
study an Indian novel entitled "Mirngnama,"
published in Punjaubee for five aunas, described
as the tale Of highly accomplished, pions, and
beautiful young lady, daughter Of King Of
who had taken q vow to marry him alone who
equaled her in learning and in piety. To test |
the proficiency Of her many suitors she had pre-