head concealed a proud intelligence; but the heart was meek and tender as a woman's. "There I will make my sepulcher," he said, when for the last time the fug tive and the outlaw returned to the land which he was to save. There he has made his sepulcher-his body is enshrin ed in its dust, his memory in the hearts of its people. The anointed murderer might thunder the Ban against the rebel, might defame his career, and bribe his assassin. But the story was already written. Unnoted by tyrant and bigot, his name had been "enrolled in the Capitol." LITERARY MISCELLANIES. APPLETON'S NEW AMERICAN CYCLOPEDIA OF GEN- ably known by her previous works, has succeeded admirably in this attempt to popularize English History and make it attractive to youthful minds. The same publishers have issued another volume of the "OAKLAND STORIES," by GEORGE B. TAYLOR, called COUSIN GUY, a series justly popular among juvenile readers. THE POPULAR HISTORY OF ENGLAND, by Mrs THOMAS GELDART, (Sheldon & Co.,) is another valuaTHE ninth volume of this very valuable and elab-ble work of its kind. The authoress, already favororate work is published. It comprises some eight hundred pages of carefully arranged and condensed facts of historic, biographic, and scientific knowledge, in the same high tone of excellence which has characterized the previous volumes of this truly great American work. The reader may judge of the extent and perfection to which this Dictionary of Knowledge is carried when this volume of eight hundred pages does not exhaust even three letters of the alphabet-H, I, and not all of J. Under these three letters are comprised a great range of topics well digested, instructive, and useful to all classes of intelligent persons. The publication of other volumes in the series will follow in good time. We refer the reader to the end of the February number of the ECLECTIC for a full programme of this great work of the Appletons. TRAVELS IN EASTERN AFRICA. By LYONS M'LEOD, THE author of these volumes was appointed Consul to Mozambique, and permitted to reside at that place in the official capacity we have mentioned. One great duty he had to perform was to establish legitimate commerce, and to oppose in every way the carrying on of the slave-trade. He repaired to his post in 1857, but at the beginning of last year he was back again in London; and we learn from POEMS. BY WILLIAM H. HOLCOMBE, M.D. New- the two volumes he has now published, that the York: Mason Brothers. 12mo, pp. 360. 1860. slave-dealers made the place literally too hot to "THE pursuit of Literature," says the author, hold him; and that, being useless and miserable, he "has been with me not a business, but an occasion-returned to England to report progress-or his failal recreation." There is much in this volume of short miscellaneous poems to commend. The author is not destitute of the true poetic fire. There are occasional passages of decided merit. Some of the Poems are real pictures of life and scenes. "The Old Country Church" wakens sad memories in our hearts. There is an air of mysticism about many of them which is not at all to our taste, being based upon the beautiful psychological doctrines of "Swedenborg."-Preface. The "Tribute to Emmanuel Swedenborg," is a little too much of a good thing and few of the M.D.'s readers will swallow the pill. AMERICAN HISTORY. BY JACOB ABBOTT. Illustrated with numerous Maps and Engravings. York: Sheldon & Co. 1860. ure in making any. His volumes contain compen- 66 In 66 Harmattan During the prevalence of these winds, I have frequently seen the furniture split, and articles which were veneered considerably damaged; the veneer ing in some cases being curled up like dried sheets of paper. Books left closed on the table at night would be found on the following morning completeNewly opened, and each leaf standing up as if it had been highly stiffened with gum. At such times glass tumblers would break, apparently of their own accord; and I have known one slight tap given to a tumbler made of blown glass, not only to break it, but, as if by sympathy, others remotely placed in different parts of the room." "Ir is the design of this work to narrate, in a clear, simple, and intelligible manner, the leading events connected with the history of our country from the earliest periods down to the present time." The industry and tact of Mr. Abbott in this line insure a deeply interesting and instructive series of volumes on this important subject, adapted to the capacity of the class for whom they are especially intended. Mr. M'Leod speaks favorably of the South-African vintage-all that is wanted is the delivery to the consumer of a pure, unadulterated, not Londonmade wine. The slight earthy taste of the wine he attributes to the red dust of the district, with which the grapes are generally covered, and which has not been properly separated in the manufacture of the wine. MULTIPLICATION OF SPECIES.-There is no excep tion to the rule, that every organic being naturally increases at so high a rate that, if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of EXCOMMUNICATED SOVEREIGNS. The following a single pair. Even slow-breeding man has doubled are the names of various Princes, Kings, and Empe- in twenty-five years, and at this rate, in a few thourors, who have been excommunicated more or less sand years, there would literally not be standingsolemnly by preceding Popes: John XII. excomroom for his progeny. Linnæus has calculated that municated Otho I., Emperor of Germany; Gregory V., if an annual plant produced only two seeds- and King Robert, for having contracted an illegitimate there is no plant so unproductive as this—and their marriage; Nicholas II. excommunicated Gerard, seedlings next year produced two, and so on, then Count of Galicia; Gregory VII, Henry IV.; Urban in twenty years there would be a million plants. II., King Philip of France, because he carried off the The elephant is reckoned to be the slowest breeder wife of the Count d'Anjou, and would not restore of all known animals, and I have taken some pains her; Pascal II., the Emperor Henry V.; Innocent to estimate its probable minimum rate of natural II., King Roger of Sicily; Celestin II., Alphonso increase; it will be under the mark to assume that King of Castile; Alexander III., the Emperor Fred-it breeds when thirty years old, and goes on breederick Barbarossa; Celestin III., Duke Leopold of ing till ninety years old, bringing forth three pair Austria; Innocent III., Philip Augustus of France. of young in this interval; if this be so, at the end On Palm Sunday, 1239, Gregory IX. excommuni- of the fifth century there would be alive fifteen milcated the Emperor Frederick; Innocent IV. excomlion elephants descended from the first pair.--“On municated the same Emperor; Boniface VIII. the Origin of Species," by C. Darwin. Philippe le Bel; Urban VI., John of Castile; Jules THE AMERICAN THEOLOGICAL REVIEW, New-York II., King Louis XII.; Clement VII., Henry VIII. of and Boston. New-York: J. M. Sherwood, No. 5 England; and Pius VII., Napoleon I. Beekman Street. Boston: Moore, Munroe & Co., No. 22 School Street. DRUNKENNESS IN WINE-GROWING COUNTRIES.-In made its appearance. It is only Number VI. of the THE May Number of this Quarterly has promptly work, or a year and a half since it began its career of strength and usefulness. The talent, learning, and capacity of its conductors, the Christian candor, strength, and power of its articles, have already placed this new candidate for public favor in the theological world in a high and commanding position. The number of its friends and patrons is steadily augmenting, and it well deserves it. Its Managing Editor, Rev. J. M. Sherwood, who formerly conducted the Biblical Repository, has the requisites of experience, judgment, taste, and fidelity to truth, well suited to inspire confidence in this responsible position. With such resources of varied talent, learning, and vast knowledge of Ecclesiastical History as are combined in the senior Editor, Rev. Henry B. Smith, of the Union Theological Seminary, it can hardly fail of becoming an accumulating treasury of valuable thought and sacred literature. Europe you see so many things which seem strange to an American. Take the use of wine. If I am right, the Europeans consume about 6,500,000,000 gallons of wine. In France, leave out of account the pasture land which is not plowed, and the forests, of the actual arable land one third is devoted to the culture of grape. Yet there are immense districts where no wine can be raised at all. I see it stated that the Government returns make it appear that the people of France drink 850,000,000 gallons of wine, and the calculation is, that the amount is not much less than 1,000,000,000! Yet I don't believe, in the year 1859, there was so much drunkenness among the 39,000,000 people of France as among the 3,000,000 of Yankees in New-England! I have been four months at Rome; there are wine-shops every where, I am out doors from three to six hours a day, and I have never yet seen a man drunk; now and then one is merry, never intoxicated. The Romans, Italians, French, etc., are quite temperate; they drink their weak wine with water, and when they take liquors, it is only a little glass at a time, (which does not make a spoonful.) I don't believe there's a bar in all Italy where men step up and drink rum and water, gin and water, etc. Excessive drinking is not to the taste of the people. In the north of Europe, and even in Switzerland, it is not so. The English, without help from the Irish and Scotch, drink about 600 or 700,000,000 gallons of beer every year, not to speak of the wine, spirits, etc., they take to wash it down withal. There is drunkenness. So you find it in Scandinavia, in HolTHE first volume of Dr. William Smith's Dictionland, in North-Germany. How do you think the Americans will settle the question? Certainly notary of the Bible has been published in London, and by taking merely to water, tea, coffee, etc. We is received by the American publishers, Messrs. Litshall have more beer, perhaps, return to the making tle, Brown and Co. of cider, and certainly plant vines where they will grow. Drunkenness is such a monstrous and ghastly evil, I would do almost any thing to get rid of it. But I sometimes think we have taken the wrong track. I am glad to see the License law introduced to the New-York Legislature, and think it will do more good than our New-England scheme of prohibition by force.-Letter from an American in Eu rope. Prof. Edward A. Lawrence; Prof. Bascom; Prof. Crosby; Rev. D. Clark; Rev. Dr. J. Few Smith, and President Goodwin of Trinity College, Hartford, are its chief contributors in the May Num ber. A NEW work by the Abbé Domenech, author of the very interesting Missionary Adventures in Texas and Mexico, an account of his Seven Years' Residence in the Great Deserts of North-America, will be published this month by Messrs. Longman. The Mill on the Floss, the new novel by Mies Evans, the authoress of Adam Bede, was announced by the Messrs. Black wood to appear on the 4th of April. Report speaks very highly of its pictures of north country life and scenery. The publishing preparations for The Mill on the Floss are on a large scale. The idea is, there will be an issue of 6,000 required. The Harpers have just issued an Ameri can edition of the work. RE-APPEARANCE OF THE SEA-SERPENT.-The following is the extract of a letter from Capt. Hawktayne, of the 39th Regiment: "Bermuda, 29th Jan., 1860.--We had a strange arrival here the other day, in the person of a sea-serpent, exactly similar to the one which was described as having been seen a few years ago, and about which so much fuss was made. This arrival, however, was captured, and sets the matter at rest at once. This day week two gentlemen were walking along the shore when they heard a loud rushing noise in the water. The serpent, which was evidently either pursuing or pursued, (probably the latter,) sprung upon the low rocks, and as the tide was retreating, he was unable to escape. The gentlemen seized some large forks which are used for dragging in sea-weed, which were at hand, and killed the beast, unfortunately cutting him very much. He is sixteen feet seven inches long and about eleven inches at the deepest; body oval, the skin bright and silvery, without scales, but very rough; the head like a bull-dog. It is destitute of teeth or bones, a large cartilage running through the body. There were a series of small fins running all along the back; but the most beautiful appendage was a crest of long red spines, in a row along the head, which the creature could raise or depress at pleasure. One, I believe the longest, is in the possession of our colonel; it is two feet seven inches in length, with a flat, broad head. Altogether, it is a wonderful production of the great deep." THE EMPRESS'S COSTUME.-A Paris correspondent says that at the late ball at the Tuileries the Em press wore at once a peculiar and a beautiful dress. Over the familiar skirt of tulle bouillonné was thrown a short upper skirt of white watered silk, festooned upon both sides with wide bands of black velvet embroidered with gold. Upon her head was placed a high crown of polished gold, upon which were imprinted in black enamel some Egyptian hieroglyphics. There were a necklace and bracelets to Her match. The Princess Clothilde was present. Imperial Highness is far from pretty, but a distinguished French political economist, speaking of her at the ball, declared he considered her the most ex traordinarily endowed lady in Europe. She speaks fluently five languages, and is a thorough Greek and Latin scholar, is well acquainted with the works of all the ancient and modern poets, and is particularly fond of quoting Shakspeare. Her character, in spite of her extreme youth, is very firm-this her face indicates. The Empress is very fond of this her young relative." A HUNDRED YEARS AGO.-The number of seamen and marines voted for the service of the Royal Navy in 1760 was 73,000, and the sum of £3640,000 was granted for their maintenance. The navy at this time consisted of 120 ships-of-the-line, besides frigates, fireships, and smaller vessels. The French navy had become so weakened by the war, that few ships remained to be employed, and consequently only six were taken during the year. In NorthAmerica the appearance of the British squadron compelled the French to raise the siege of Quebec, and the whole country of Canada came into the possession of this country. ABSENCE OF MIND.-The first Lord Lyttleton was very absent in company, and when he fell into the river by the upsetting of a boat, at Hagley, it is said of him that he had sunk twice before he recollected that he could swim." DEATH AMONG THE GOLD-FISH.-Wherever you meet with folks who keep gold-fish in the old-fashionglass globes, you will be sure to hear the melancholy complaint that they will die, in spite of every care taken to preserve them. The water is changed most regularly, the glass kept beautifully clean, the vessel shaded from the sunshine; yet, alas! alas! death is always busy amongst them. Is it internal disease? Is it external fungi? No; the cause is starvation. Every other pet is expected to eat, but these gold-carp are expected to subsist ou-nothing! "But don't they eat the animaculæ ?" Nonsense! Give them a few small earth-worms, or anglers' geutles, twice a week, and to prevent the necessity of frequently changing the water, throw in a handful of Anacharis, (water-weed,) and instead of floating in succession "on their watery bier," they will get plump and healthy, and grow as rapidly as in their native waters. Some of our gold-fish have been in our possession seven years, and have increased in size three times what they were originally.-Recreative Science. WIND AND SEA. THE Sea is a jovial comrade, He laughs wherever he goes; He lays himself down at the feet of the Sun, And the broad-backed billows fall faint on the shore, In the mirth of the mighty Sea. But the wind is sad and restless, And shrieks on the wintry sea; And I know not which is best The laughter that slips from the Ocean's lips, Or the comfortless Wind's unrest. There's a pang in all rejoicing, And the Wind that saddens, the Sea that gladdens, THE new Latin-English Dictionary, by the Rev. J. T. White, M. A., of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and the Rev. J. E. Riddle, M.A., of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, founded on the larger Dictionary of Freund, revised by himself, is advancing at press, and is expected to be ready for publication at midsummer, in one large volume, royal 8vo. Mr. White has been engaged in this important and laborious enterprise, which, it is expected, will give us by far the best Latin-English dictionary ever published. It will contain some thousands of words and meanings more than can be found in any other Latin-Eng lish dictionaries. Mr. White has long occupied an eminent position at Christ Hospital, and is known in the world of scholarship by his many excellent editions of classics. The publishers of this elaborate contribution to classical lexicography are the Messrs. Longman. The result of Mr White's labors, it may be added, has received the warm approval of that eminent scholar, Professor Zumpt. 286 WELLINGTON'S THEORY OF DOMESTIC RULE.The Duke's bell sounded very violently, and when the servant entered, he was seen standing beside his table. "What have you done with the book I was reading last night? I laid it there, just there,' striking the table with his hand, "and you have taken it away What have you done with it?" "I never saw it, your Grace; I never touched it." "But you must have seen it, and you did touch it. And then he would get into a Where is it?" towering passion, and walk up and down the room, blaming every body, till the servant retired. By and by he would recollect that he had taken it into another room, and left it there, upon which he would ring the bell again, and on the servant showing himself, he would ask some ordinary question. The answer being given, he would reply in a tone of marked kindness: "Thank you, I am much obliged to you." The valet perfectly understood that this was as much as if he had said: "I have done you wrong, pray forgive me." His theory was, that the governing power must never confess itself in the wrong; so he took this way of soothing the feelings of his domestic.-Gleig's History of the Duke of Wellington. A COMBINATION MAID.-A certain Duchess, noted for the magnificence in which her stately person is arrayed-so starely is it as to bear down even Royalty itself in queenly dignity-is so aware of the importance of combining colors well, that one of her femmes de chambre is a "combination maid," selected on account of her judgment in colors; thus, every toilette for the day or night is submitted by her; the shawl is confronted with the gown; the bonnet is made to suit with both. The wreath of flowers is to be in keeping with the rich boddice, the boddice with the sweeping train; the rich jewelry, taken from a casket almost unparalleled among the subjects of a country, must not eclipse, but highten the tints of the dress. The whole is placed for inspection, as an artist dresses up a lay figure, and the repute of the maid is staked on the result. White was that gorgeous lady's favorite attire; white, scarce purer than the face-"oh I call it pale, not fair"-white, which "combines" with every hue, ornament, or flower; but the loveliness may now have fled before the approach of time, and rich colors have been selected as the appropriate tints for the middle age which is so beautiful in English women alone.-The Habits of Good Society. MR. MURRAY has in preparation, under the editor ship of Dr. William Smith, an Atlas of Ancient Geography, an English-Latin Dictionary, and what has long been wanted, a modern and popular Medieval Latin Dictionary, carefully abridged from the great work of Ducange. A WRITER, in a communication from Cambridge, work has been intrusted to Dr. Donaldson, and that VENTILATION OF THE SICK-ROOM-With a proper supply of windows and a proper supply of fuel in open fireplaces, fresh air is comparatively easy to People secure when your patient or patients are in bed. Never be afraid of open windows then. don't catch cold in bed. This is a popular fallacy. With proper bed clothes and hot bottles, if necessary, you can always keep a patient warm in bed, and well ventilate him at the same time. I know an intelligent, humane house-surgeon who makes a practice of keeping the ward windows open. The physicians and surgeons invariably close them while going their rounds, and the house-surgeon very properly as invariably opens them whenever the doctors have turned their backs. Do you ever go into the bed-rooms of any persons of any class, whether they contain one, two, or twenty people-whether they hold sick or well, at night or before the windows are opened in the morning, and ever find the air And of how much importany thing but unwholesomely close and foul? And ance it is that it should not be so! During sleep why should it be so? the human body, even when in health, is far more injured by the influence of foul air than when awake. Why can't you keep the air all night, then, as pure as the air without, in the room you sleep in? But for this, you must have sufficient outlet for the impure air you make yourselves to go out; sufficient inlet for the pure air from without to come in. You must have open chimneys, open windows, or ventilators; no close curtains round your beds; no shuttters or curtains to your windows-none of the contrivances by which you undermine your own health or destroy the chances of recovery of your sick.-Miss Nightingale. THE SECRET OF ENGLAND'S GREATNESS.-It was a noble and beautiful answer of our Queen, says the British Workman, that she gave to an African prince, who sent an embassage, with costly presents, and asked her in return to tell him the secret our beloved Queen sent him, not the number of her of England's greatness and England's glory; and fleet, not the number of her armies, not the account of her boundless merchandise, not the details of her inexhaustible wealth. She did not, like Hezekiah, in an evil hour, show the ambassador her diamonds, tifully bound copy of the Bible, she said: "Tell and her rich ornaments; but handing him a beauthe Prince that this is the secret of England's greatness." THE libraries of Harvard College comprise a collection of more than one hundred and twenty-eight In the public library, Gore thousand volumes. Hall, is that portion of Mr. Prescott's library which related exclusively to the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella--being the best collection of works on that subject in the world. In the annual report of the librarian, it is stated that on the twenty-ninth of January, 1848, Mr. Prescott made a catalogue of books, and with his own hand wrote on it: "To death." More than eleven years afterward, on the go to the library of Harvard College after my third of June last, all these volumes, with the exception of five, which could not be found, were transferred to Gore Hall. They are two hundred volumes of manuscripts. and eighty-two in number, comprising five large THE sacred book of the ancient Persians says: "If you wish to be a saint, instruct your children, be. cause all the good they do will be imputed to you.' THE COAL-FIELDS OF THE WORLD.-At the moment when the coal question appears to have caused a certain degree of excitement among political parties in England, in consequence of the commercial treaty, the following notice may not be without interest: The coal producing districts of NorthAmerica embrace an extent of 500,000 square kilometres, (the kilometre is five eighths of a mile.) In Europe the surface so occnpied does not exceed 23,000 square kilometres, being divided as follows: England, 1450; France, 2500; Rhenish Prussia, 2400; Belgium, 1275; Bohemia, 1000; Westphalia, 950; the Asturias, in Spain, 500; Russia, 250; and Saxony, 75. Although the extent of coal-land is greatest in North-America, the working of the mines is carried on much more actively in Europe. England annually extracts 65,000,000 tons; Belgium 5000,000, and France 4500,000. The United States only turn out 9000,000 tons. Half a kilogramme of coal burnt in the furnace of a steamengine furnishes steam enough to do as much work as one man of ordinary strength could effect in a day, and three tons of coal would represent the labor which he could perform during his whole life. Admitting that England annually employs 10,000,000 tons, the steam produced in that country would do the work of 66,000,000 of vigorous The mass of coal in all the coal producing districts of Europe and North-America contains a latent force little inferior to that which could be used during their whole lives by 16 milliards of men of average strength. The following is the list of our exports of coal and culm to various countries during the year 1859: To Russia, 347,733 tons; Denmark, 462,293; Prussia, 393,748; Hanse Towns, 523,232; France, 1390,726; Spain and Canaries, 427,332; Turkey, 218,284; United States, 204,517; Malta, 179,061; British West-Indies, 98,051; other countries, 2743.203. Total, 6979,180 tons. Declared value, £3266,174. men. NEVER DO TOO MUCH AT A TIME.-Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, in a lecture recently delivered, gave the following history of his literary habits: Many persons seeing me so much engaged in active life, and so much about the world as if I had never been a student, have said to me: "When do you get time to write all your books? How on earth do you contrive to do so much work?" I shall surprise you by the answer I make. This answer is this: "I contrive to do so much by never doing too much at a time. A man, to get through work well, must not overwork himself, or, if he do too much to-day, the reaction of fatigue will come, and he will be obliged to do too little to-morrow. Now, since I began really and earnestly to study, which was not till I had left college, and was actually in the world, I may perhaps say I have gone through as large a course of general reading as most men of my time. I have traveled much, and I have seen much; I have mixed much in politics, and the various business of life; and, in addition to all this, I have published somewhere about sixty volumes, some upon subjects requiring much research. And what time, do you think, as a general rule, I have devoted to study-to reading and writing? Not more than three hours a day; and, when parliament is sitting, not always that. But then, during those hours, I have given my whole attention to what I was about." SONNET. A SOLEMN silence reigns-night's argent queen Like specters, with their hoary arms and gray; And like an angel's pathway to the skies, The moonlit stream in distance dies away. At this blessed hour the slave forgets his chains, The servile wretch with aching heart and brow Has drunk of sleep's oblivion, and he reigns A crownéd monarch in the dream-world now. Happy the soul that now can rove abroad, And view, in all created things, a God. YOUNG LADIES IN THE COUNTRY.-In the country it ought to be an unnatural circumstance that young ladies are ever out of health. Besides the fresh air, and liberty and sociability of rural life there is such various and abundant and charming employment for young people. Early hours, plentiful exercise, sunlight without stint, and an ocean of fresh air; food perpetually fresh from the kitchen-garden, the farmyard, and the river-here are conditions of health of very high value. The higher still seem to be no less plentifully afforded. In a country neighborhood every body knows every body; and the calls for kindly action are incessant and perfectly natural. There are outdoor pursuits for the whole year round for girls of any spirit-the garden and green-house, the poultry-yard, the bees, and various branches of natural history, in which there is at present a demand for ability of every kind. Literature, again, and art are treasures within reach, and no where do they flourish more than in the bright atmosphere of rural life. Evenings of books are singularly charming after mornings of activity among the realities of the farm, the breezy common, the blossoming lanes, and the village-school. RECORD OF WRECKS.-During the month of February, the number of wrecks reported was 154. In the month of January there were 229, making a total during the the present year of 383. OLD MR. LANDOR.-A correspondent of The Transcript, writing from Florence, says that one of the highest privileges which the lover of genius can enjoy in that city is a visit to Walter Savage Landor. He is now over eighty-six years of age, with beard and hair snowy white. At his villa near Florence he has a collection of several hundred pictures, the gathering of his life by the aid of the best amateurs. His conversation, like that of most old people, runs much on the past. It is not surprising that he should be a little garrulous or eccentric. He talks of the time when he saw the older Napoleon with a round and olive face like that of a Greek girl;" and of Schlegel whom he knew intimately, and of whom he tells excellent stories; of his old friend John Kenyon, and of George Washington, whom he ranks first of mortals. MEN pursue riches under the idea that their possession will set them at ease, and above the world. But the law of association often makes those who begin by loving gold as a servant, finish by becoming themselves its slaves; and independence without Ar what time of day was Adam created? A wealth is as least as common as wealth without inlittle before Eve. dependence. |