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Rh Talmudists occupied themselves with the elucidation of the Talmud, and from the “Additions” (Tossafoth) which they compiled they are known as Tossafists. The Tossafists were animated with an altogether different spirit from that of the Spanish writers on the Talmud. But though their method is very involved and over-ingenious, they display so much mastery of the Talmud, such excellent discrimination, and so keen a critical insight, that they well earned the fame they have enjoyed. The earliest Tossafists were the family and pupils of Rashi, but the method spread from Northern France to Provence, and thence to Spain. The most famous Tossafists were Isaac, the son of Asher of Speyer (end of the eleventh century); Tam of Rameru (Rashi’s grandson); Isaac the Elder of Dompaire (Tam’s nephew); Baruch of Ratisbon; and Perez of Corbeil.

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Rh lenses; he refused a professorship, preferring, like Maimonides before him, to rely on other than literary pursuits as a means of livelihood.

In 1670 Spinoza finished his “Theologico-Political Tractate.” in which some bitterness against the Synagogue is apparent. His attack on the Bible is crude, but the fundamental principles of modern criticism are here anticipated. The main importance of the “Tractate” lay in the doctrine that the state has full rights over the individual, except in relation to freedom of thought and free expression of thought. These are rights which no human being can alienate to the state. Of Spinoza’s greatest work, the “Ethics,” it need only be said that it was one of the most stimulating works of modern times. A child of Judaism and of Cartesianism. Spinoza won a front place among the great teachers of mankind.

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was the centre of Jewish hope in the seventeenth century, and among its tolerant and cultivated people the Marranos, exiled from Spain and Portugal, founded a new Jerusalem. Two writers of Marrano origin, wide as the poles asunder in gifts of mind and character, represented two aspects of the aspiration of the Jews towards a place in the wider world. Manasseh ben Israel (1604-1657) was an enthusiast who based his ambitious hopes on the Messianic prophecies; Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) lacked enthusiasm, had little belief in the verbal promises of Scripture, yet developed a system of ethics in which


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religious literature of the Jews, so far as practical life was concerned, culminated in the publication of the “Table Prepared” (Shulchan Aruch), in 1565. The first book of its kind compiled after the invention of printing, the Shulchan Aruch obtained a popularity denied to all previous works designed to present a digest of Jewish ethics and ritual observances. It in no sense superseded the “Strong Hand” of Maimonides, but it was so much more practical in its scope. so much clearer as a work of general refer-


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164 from the Synagogue. Pablo Christiani burned with the desire to convert the Jews en masse to Christianity, and in 1263 he induced King Jayme I of Aragon to summon Nachmanides to a controversy on the truth of Christianity. Nachmanides complied with the royal command most reluctantly. He felt that the process of rousing theological animosity by a public discussion could only end in a religious persecution. However, he had no alternative but to assent. He stipulated for complete freedom of speech. This was granted, but when Nachmanides published his version of the discussion, the Dominicans were incensed. True, the special commission appointed to examine the charge of blasphemy brought against Nachmanides reported that he had merely availed himself of the right of free speech which had been guaranteed to him. He was nevertheless sentenced to exile, and his pamphlet was burnt. Nachmanides was seventy years of


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Rh siast in many directions. His heart went out to the French Talmudists, yet he cherished so genuine an affection for Maimonides that he defended him with spirit against his detractors. Gentle by nature, he broke forth into fiery indignation against the French critics of Maimonides. At the same time his tender soul was attracted by the emotionalism of the Kabbala, or mystical view of life, a view equally opposed to the views of Maimonides and of the French school. He tried to act the part of reconciler, but his intellect, strong as it was, was too much at the mercy of his emotions for him to win a commanding place in the controversies of his time.

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86 subjects, was Jannai. Though we know that Jannai was a prolific writer, only seven short examples of his verse remain. One of these is the popular hymn, “It was at Midnight,” which is still recited by “German” Jews at the home-service on the first eve of Passover. It recounts in order the deliverances which, according to the Midrash, were wrought for Israel at midnight, from Abraham’s victory over the four kings to the wakefulness of Ahasuerus, the crisis of the Book of Esther. In the last stanza is a prayer for future redemption:

This form of versification, with a running refrain, afterwards became very popular with Jewish poets. Jannai also displays the harsh alliterations, the learned allusions to Midrash and Talmud, which were carried to extremes by Kalir.


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Rh spiring. No Hebrew poet in the Middle Ages was illiterate, for the poetic instinct was fed on the fancies of the Midrash. This accounts for their lack of freshness and originality. The poet was a scholar, and he was also a teacher. Much of Kalir’s work is didactic; it teaches the traditional explanations of the Bible and the ritual laws for Sabbath and festivals; it provides a convenient summary of the six hundred and thirteen precepts into which the duties of the Law were arranged. But over and above all this the genius of Kalir soars to poetic heights. So much has been said of Kalir’s obscurity that one quotation must in fairness be given of Kalir at his simplest and best. The passage is taken from a hymn sung on the seventh day of Tabernacles, the day of the great Hosannas:

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8. BTIPHENS.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850, by Mrs. Ann 8. Stephens, in the Clerk’s Ofﬁce of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.] cosrluum no! no: 6L

C H A P T E R I I.

When Daniel Hart was left alone, he sat for a moment stunned by the news that had fallen so suddenly upon him. At ﬁrst he could not believe in its truth. His sister alive, her husband and child beneath his roof, and she absent no one knew where. How could this be ?—why had her friends so long been allowed to think her dead? What had she done or suﬂ'ered that this singular state of things should-exist?

Daniel Hart thought over these things till the great, brave heart in his bosom swelled heavily, and he arose from his chair, pacing up and down the room with his hands locked behind him, and the balls of his two thumbs pressed against each other, as was his habit when drawn to deep or disagreeable reﬂection. He was not aware that the tramp of his heavy shoes resounded through the house, but kept on step, step, step, like a sentinel on duty, till at last the door opened, and the bright face of Gillian Bentley looked in.

“Ah, it is you, uncle Daniel, and all alone,” she said, closing the door after her. “I’m so glad. Everything seems strange and still here, I cannot sleep try ever so much. Don’t look at me so, indeed I tried, but the moon came blink ing in through the hickory branches, and up I sprang, put on my dressing-gown, huddled myself into a shawl, and sat down by the open window till I am quite chilled through.”

“It was dangerous business,” said Hart, with a quiver in his voice. “Like your mother, too, very like your mother, gal."

“Ah, I was thinking of her, my poor mother, when the moonlight came in: it seems as if she must be somewhere in this old house waiting for me, uncle Hart. You’re not, I am sure, by the way you walk. Do sit here in this great chair, and let me snuggle down on the footstool by your knee, while you tell me about my mother—my splendid, beautiful mother, for I have her features here deep, deep in my heart. It was the ﬁrst memory of my life buried there, uncle g Daniel."

Gillian throw one arm over the farmer’s shoulder, and with a little gentle force led him back to the oak chair, while she sunk down to the stool at his feet with the grace and sweep of a bird of paradise when it settles to rest.

“There now, uncle Daniel, just imagine me your daughter Hannah ten years old, determined to be naughty and keep you up half the night, while I make believe that you’ve given me one good scolding, and made up as a dutiful papa is bound to do."

“Wall,” said uncle Daniel, and a broad smile swept over his face, spite of the trouble that spoke in his voice. “Wall, now, what shall we talk abouL‘I—what can an old chap like me have to say to a ﬁne lady that comes down at mid might in her silks and satins like a queen, and wants to make believe sociable? It’s like a fed cock coming in among a lot of guinea hens and turkey gobblers; they have nothing to do but give up the yard and huddle under some old cart out of the way.”

“Am I so very unlike everybody here then?" said Gillian, in atone of childish mortiﬁoation. “What is it, my poor old dressing-gown and this shawl?—indeed I’d nothing else. Somebody packed them on the very top of the trunk.”

With a pretty ﬂush on her face, and a degree of eager haste, which proved her quite earnest in her shame, she wrapped the blue silk dressing-gown, with its soft facing of swan’s-down, close about her, and strove to cover it under the rich folds of a camel’s-hair shawl with a delicate golden ground, and overrun with great palm leaves, in which a thousand gorgeous tints struggled into contrast, or slept in harmony.

“There now, dear uncle, that I am getting respectable, please tell me if I look the least bit like my poor mamma?"

The old man gazed down on that bright face till his eyes ﬁlled with tears. He did not speak, but lifted his hand and laid it on her head.

“A little,” said Gillian, smiling through the mist that shone in her eyes. “Just the least little bit, please; say that much.”

“Yes, gal, you’re like our Sarah—just as a wild rose from the swamp puts you in mind of a damask rose in the garden. I should a known


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O redeem the vineyard which thou hast planted, And sweep thence the strangers, and save us now! O regard the covenant which thou hast sealed in us! O remember for us the father who knew thee, To whom thou, too, didst make known thy love,

O deal wondrously with the pure in heart That thy providence may be seen of men, and save us now! O lift up Zion’s sunken gates from the earth, Exalt the spot to which our eyes all turn,

Such hymns won for Kalir popularity. which, however, is now much on the wane.

 * Graetz.—III, 4.
 * Translations of Poems in Editions of the Prayer-Book, and J. Q. R., VII, p. 460; IX, p. 291.
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102 Thus, with Chasdai a new literary era dawned for Judaism. His person, his glorious position, his liberal encouragement of poetry and learning, opened the sealed-up lips of the Hebrew muse. As a contemporary said of Chasdai:

Chasdai did not confine his efforts on behalf of his brethren to the Jews of Spain. Ambition and sympathy made him extend his affection to the Jews of all the world. He interviewed the captains of ships, he conversed with foreign envoys concerning the Jews of other lands. He entered into a correspondence with the Chazars, Jews by adoption, not by race. It is not surprising that the influence of Chasdai survived him. Under the next two caliphs,


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 you was her darter if I*d met you in Kamskatha. She hadn’t your fine feathers, but no one could mistake about your being birds of the old nest.”

“Yes, that’s it,” cried Gillian. “That’s the way I feel here, like a poor, little bird that’s been flying and flying among the myrtles with¬ out settling down anywhere; but onoe under the old hickory tree that is rattling its nuts down to the frosty grass this minute, the tired birdie longs to folds its wings and feel at home. It’s like living a dream over again to find myself here.”

“And this is the way she used to talk,” said Hart, gazing with looks of wistful fondness into the beautiful face uplifted to his.

“Who? my mother? Did she feel like a bird glad to rest?”

“No, like a bird forever wanting to try the wing. From the time she was ten years old she was always talking of the foreign parts she in¬ tended to visit; the people she meant to know; and the books she should some day write.”

“The books she would write? Why, uncle Daniel, did my mother write books?”

“Yes, yes, in her fancy, just as she traveled over strange countries.”

“But she was very young. Not much over my age when she died.”

“When she died?”

“Yes, when she died. Two or three years older perhaps, but not more than that.”

“Then you remember the time?”

“Yes, but not the circumstanoe. We were in Naples, I remember their coming to the convent where I had been left for tome reason, and tell¬ ing me I no longer had a mother, that she was gone.”

“And was this all?”

“No. One day when I asked for the place where my mother was laid, the old nurse took me up to a beautiful spot baok of Naples, where you could hardly see the graves for the roses that blossomed over them—not for a week or a month, but all the year round—and told me that was the place where I must seek for her.”

“And did you find the spot?”

“I don’t know; neither the nurse nor I could read, we could only guess where she lay by the brightness of the roses; but we found a little hollow on the hill-side, completely choked up with blossoms. The loveliest spot you ever set eyes on, so shaded that the softest moss crept over the little marble slabs all around, except one, and that was pure and white as snow. We picked that out for the one and come away.”

“And this is all you know of your mother?”

“What more should I know, poor, little child that I was? Papa never speaks of her; no other human being that I ever saw knew anything about her, that was why there was no Bleep for me to-night, till I had come down and had a talk with you.”

“It was the way she used to come when any¬ thing troubled her,” said Hart, looking thought¬ fully into the fire.

“And that proves how much we are alike. I wasn’t so certain about the nice old lady, or even cousin Hannah; but the moment I felt your hand on my head I was sure of you.”

The old farmer shook in his chair; he was almost crying.

“That’s right, gal—that’s right. It’s the way Sarah Hart’s darter should feel on coming home. It’s the way she would have felt herself if she— but what has become her? God help us all— what has become of her?”

Gillian turned suddenly pale, while her eyes grew wild and large.

“Oh, uncle, what a strange question!”

“Everything about her is strange,” muttered Hart, shaking his head doubtfully. “I don’t know how to talk or what to say; secrets always trouble me, especially when I don’t understand them. In all these years never to have heard a word: and now to be, as it was, knocked down with a single fact, and left to brood over it. Young lady, what kind of a man is your father?”

“My father—my father! Why, uncle Hart, who ever thought of asking that question before? What child ever did ask it? Why he is a grand, true man, gentle as an angel, and proud as—as an emperor. With wise men he is always the wisest; with good men he seems best of alL I never saw a human being that dared to take a liberty with papa, and yet he is mild and kind as a little child.”

“But you haven’t dared to ask him right straightforward about your own mother and her folks.”

“That’s true, and yet I could not tell the reason to save my life.”

“It’s because there’s something kept back.”

“No, I hope not—I hope not,” murmured Gillian, thoughtfully.

“You wasn’t afraid to ask me about her?”

“Not in the least. I only hesitated a little about the time of night, that is all.”

“Now tell me what you want to know.”

“Everything.”

“Very well: why not? There ain’t nothing to tell that a body need be ashamed on; and you’ll never see the day, gal, bright and peart as you be, that Sarah Hart mightn’t have gone ahead of her own child.”


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restless and anxious, too, as if they didn’t know what to do with themselves.

“Toward night we all went out into the stoop— for my wife had come over, and looked as nice u any of them—if Sarah was the most beautiful; and they made a putty show, fluttering around in their white dresses, like so many pigeons, waiting to be fed. At last, just as the sun was beginning to sink behind the hills, we saw a  carriage coming round a curve of the turnpike, that you can see from the stoop away down the valley. It was moving along what we call the dug road, with a steep hill on one side, and a  precipice below—a dangerous spot always for: skittish horses, and one I never liked to travel; in the night.

“Just as we saw Mr. Bentley’s carriage appear on this road, a stage coach came over the hill, thundering along as if it had lost time.

That minute the blast of a horn rung through the valley, and while it filled the air, a sharp cry from one of the gals made us all catch our breath.

“See! see!’ shrieked Sarah, flinging up her arms. ‘Oh, my God, have mercy!—have mercy!’

“Her wild eyes were bent on the distance— we followed them in terror. The stage was thundering down the hill; we caught one glimpse of the carriage, which went over and over down the precipice; the sharp yell of the horses came to where we stood—and then all was still. looked around; Hetty lay cold and stiff as death on the stoop, while Sarah fell down at her side, shielding her with both arms, and moaning as if her heart was broken.”

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(AIR, JENNY JONES.) Tn ship in the oﬂing was rocked by the billows; The signal for sailing at length was displayed; The lovers both sat on the brook edged with willows, Where oft in the long summer evening they strayed. “I‘m going." said Jimmy, with tender emotion, While blinked the big tear in his bonny blue ’eo, "To buﬂet the tempest: on life’s stormy ocean, And leave far behind me the maid of Ardce.

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The goal is before rue—my heart it is in it, As long as the guerdou is coupled with thee; Never fear but young Jemmy will tlziuntlessly win it, And bring home the prize to the maid of Ardee. “Farewell, then, to Jenny; may heaven's protection, Vouchsat'e to my darling its sheltering care; Never fear but young Jemmy, led by its direction Shall win, and with Jenny his trophies shall aha-re." One lost look he took with such tender emotion, And kissed the big tear that tricked down from her 'ee; When his boat like an arrow shot over the ocean, And Jimmy’s soon lost to the maid of Ardee.

“Farewell, then, to Jenny—farewell to my dearest; Rcpine not that fortune should call me away; When the cloud is the lowest the rain-drops are nearest— The darkness of night’s but the opening of day.

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F0011!!! Miller! circling, ﬂuttering Nearer to the brilliant light; Don‘t you know it cares not for you— That its touch would kill you quite! Go away, the sky is pleasant Out of doors; the night is sweet, And the air is pure and fragrant, With the breath of ﬂowers replete.

What a pleasant song the taper, In low, titful murmurs sings, ’Tis not best that thou should’st listen, Foolish Miller, lost thy wings? Up the light in triumph rushing, Folds him in its blinding glare; Wrecked in beauty and in being— He bemoons too late the snare.

Go in peace! infatuation Stronger growl while near you stay; And the light burns clearer, brighter— You had better go away, Break at once the magic circle—

Ahi how many with a birthright Far above the silly moth, Circle round some guy temptation— Dmwing nearer, nothing loth; Heading not this simple lesson; Counting not the fearful cost, Till one day a weeping angel Writes—a priceless soul is lost!

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In southern Spain, in days gone by, The sun of fame rose up on high: Chasdai it was, the prince, who gave Rich gifts to all who came to crave. Science rolled forth her mighty waves, Laden with gems from hidden caves, Till wisdom like an island stood, The precious outcome of the flood. Here thirsting spirits still might find Knowledge to satisfy the mind. Their prince’s favor made new day For those who slept their life away. They who had lived so long apart Confessed a bond, a common heart, From Christendom and Moorish lands,


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graceful character of this description of wrap. No mnntilla, ever made, equals the shawl in

beauty.

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shawls of this exquisite fabric may be had for all prices, from one hundred dollars up to six or seven hundred; and long shawls for sums ranging from three hundred dollars up to a thousand, or even more. L. J. Levy & 00., of Chesnut street, Philadelphia, have had, ' for several years, the ﬁnest assortment of those Cashmeres ever imported into America. Shawls may be had, however, of every price, both at their establishment and elsewhere, of great beauty; for in no other department of manufactures, perhaps, have such strides been made in taste, as in women’s shawls. T. S.

Evans & 00., another fashionable dry-good’s ﬁrm of Philadelphia, have a beautiful Chenille

Shawl, an engraving of which we give, and which is one of the novelties of the season. When folded on one side the shawl is of a plain CBIKILLI SHAWL.

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Genin, of New York, has a great variety of elegant linen, for infants and ladies. Among the most tasteful is a chemise, trimmed with lace, an engraving of which we give. Another ‘

very elegant affair is an infant’s robe, of which also we give an engraving. HEAD-DIESE

The same may be said of the beautiful collar and neck-tie, an illustration of which we annex. There is hardly a country store even, with any pretensions, that cannot furnish the materials =for this pretty article: nor any reader of “Peter son,” who, with the aid of the engraving, cannot

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iln the fashion department proper, are given, 5 however, additional patterns, comprising cloaks, A new style of head-dress hasjust appeared, ibonnets, &c., some from designs imported from which, as it is quite easy to make. we have had g I’m-is, and others from articles made up, by

engraved for our hundred thousand}suhscriberS. Efashionable mediates, in Philadelphia and New The materials are ribbon and artiﬁcial ﬂowers, iYork.


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MRS. JANE

WEAVER.

Tms elegant: article is to be worked with steel a should like to see, more popular; for it is entirely beads on velvet. It is at once economical and la false idea, which thinks nothing can be beau tssteful, one of a kind of ornament which we i tiful unless it is expensive.

THE

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11. MAY.

Tins graceful dress body has just appeared, z size of each piece being marked, it will be ob in Paris, where it is very popular: and accord- '5 served, in inches along each side. 1/1 /1

ingly we have had it engraved for “Peterson,”

No. 1. HALF THE FRONT.

and a. diagram prepared by which to cut out a paper pattern. Such a pattern can be made, by E any subscriber, by enlarging the diagram, the:

No. 2. FROM or Panama‘s. No. 3. HALF 'rna BACK. No. 4. Basil or Panama.

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POLKA.

FOR A CHILD OF TWO on THREE YEARS OLD. BY

MRS. JANE

WEAVER.

g each side the ridge which runs up from the side of the outer decreasings, nearest to the front: at

2geach you will increase 18 stitches in as many rows, as the alternate once only have the made stitches. Continue to knit in the briochc stitch. In the next row, knit as far as the ﬁrst 18 Estitches. Turn back; cast of the 18, and knit g the others backward and forward as usual, form iing one side of the front, up to the shoulder, for E 36 rows; always continuing to make the button

iholes at equal distances, if this is the side for i them.

Now cast of a stitch loosely at the end

of every row, until one stitch only is left. Draw ithe wool through. New continue the piece for g the back, from the gusset; knit across the back, {to the end of the other 18 stitches, turn; cast .‘lATlBlALS.—6 oz. claret4 thread Berlin wool; them elf, and do 36 rows; then cast off a stitch

1 oz. of white Pyrenees ditto; apair of knitting-i5 at the end of every row, until 8 ribs are cast. off needles with heads, No. 8, and another, No. 10. at each edge. Cast oﬂ‘ the remainder. Do the With the claret wool and ﬁnest needles cast other side of the front to correspond with the on 242 stitches. and knit two plain rows. Now é ﬁrst. tie a hit of white thread at the 36th from eachi Fon 'rtn: Steven—Cast on 99 stitches, knit end, and at the 56th from them.

These four 3 2 plain rows, then the briochc stitch.

Gradually

pieces of cotton serve to mark the places where g decrease two ribs at each edge, and knit about

you are to decrease by knitting three together 6 inches. in every alternate row, after the 24th. Begin the pattern, which is ordinary briochc stitch, adding three stitches at the end of every row, until there are 36 more at each end; in the next row cast on 21 more at the end, and When you come to the end of the next row do the same. Meantime after 24 rows done without decreasing,

Now cast. off 24 stitches at each edge,

iand knit eight rows before casting otf the re mainder. } Tm: COLLAIt.-—-Cast on 102 stitches, and do § the depth of an inch with claret wool, and cast. 3 off. Then with the white wool, and the some i needles, take up stitches along the two ends and i one side, and knit one row. 2nd. 1- Knit 2, make

you will take in three stitches at each of thctonc by bringing the thread before the needle.

white threads, in every other row, until you have} 1- nll round. decreased, in each place, 27 stitches.

3rd. Put-led.

4th. f knit 2, make

To pro-i1, knit 1, make 1, 1- repeat to the end.

5th.

duce the proper cﬂect take in ﬁrst. at one side, Purled. 6th. Cast 011‘. This ﬁnishes the collar. and then at the other of the white thread, so The deep lace frill, which gives so elegant a that a ridge from each side disappears altcr-, ﬁnish to this polka, is done with the coarse

nstely.

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creasing or diminishing.

It will be necessary to t to be done as follows.

It is double, and is

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make button-holes at one edge, at the distance knit one plain row. of every 30 rows, thus: Knit 6 stitches, cast 9 1st Pattern Row.-~ Knit 7. 1- make I, knit 2 of the left-hand needle, by passing one over 3 together, knit 6. 1* repeat till 7 only are left. another without knitting them; then cast on 6; Make 1. knit 7

on the right~hand needle, in this way diminish-i

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“Ex. Co.

“Buitenzorg, 23rd March, 1856.

“No. 54

“The manner in which you have proceeded since the discovery or supposition of malpractices on the part of the Chiefs of the Division of Lebak, and the attitude taken up by you on that occasion towards your superior officer, the Resident of Bantam, have incurred my greatest dissatisfaction.

“In your actions, above referred to, there has been an absence equally of moderate deliberation, tact, and prudence, which are so urgently requisite in an officer clothed [sic] with the execution of authority in the interior, as of a proper conception of subordination to your immediate superior.

“It was only a few days after you had entered upon your new duties that you found good, without previous consultation of [sic] the Resident, to make the Chief of the Native Government of Lebak an object of incriminating inquiries.

“In those inquires you found cause without even substantiating your charges against that Chief by facts, and far less by proofs, to recommend measures which tended to subject a Native Officer of the stamp of the Regent of Lebak, a sixty-year-old but still zealous servant of his Country, related to neighbouring important Regent-families, and about whom there have always been received favourable reports, to a treatment which would have entirely ruined him from a moral point of view.

“Moreover, when the Resident showed himself indisposed to give immediate effect to your proposals, you refused to comply with the reasonable demand of your Chief to make a complete disclosure of the things that were known to you relative to the actions of the Native administration at Lebak.

“Such actions deserve complete disapprobation, and would readily give cause to suspect for the occupation of a position with the Internal Administration.


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rows, and slip all the stitches on a ﬁner needle. E sleeves, and plait some white 8-thrend ﬁcecy, in be another piece with a depth of only two pat- E make the trimming down the fronts and round terns, and two plain rows. Then holding the § the neck. The buttons are covered also with two pieces of lace together, knit one row with a 3 pieces of white knitting, so that every

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From East, from West, from distant strands. His favor compassed each and all. Girt by the shelter of his grace, Lit by the glory of his face, Knowledge held their heart in thrall. He showed the source of wisdom and her springs. And God’s anointment made them more than kings. His goodness made the dumb to speak his name, Yea, stubborn hearts were not unyielding long; And bards the starry splendor of his fame Mirrored in lucent current of their song.

This Chasdai, the son of Isaac, of the family of Shaprut (915-970), was a physician and a statesman. He was something of a poet and linguist besides; not much of a poet, for his eulogists say little of his verses; and not much of a linguist, for he employed others (among them Menachem, the son of Zaruk, the grammarian) to write his Hebrew letters for him. But he was enough of a scholar to appreciate learning in others, and as a patron of literature he placed himself in the front of the new Jewish development in Spain. From Babylonia he was hailed as the head of the school in Cordova. At his palatial abode was gath-


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A PRETTY coiffure, which may be crocheted 5 The pattern is so easy that a detailed description a

. in any color that suits the taste of the wearer. It “1" not, we think, be necessary.

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Tms is becoming quite a fashionable articleg The Neck-Tie is netted. The materials are for gentlemen to wear at evening parties. The 3 two skeins of ﬁne black purse silk, and 1 skeiu present pattern is taken from an English journal. 5 very ﬁne indeed, for border at the ends.

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with cold water, in which a little loaf sugar has been dissolved; then put it in a cloth, under a weight, to press it smooth.

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it herself.

The small wheels and large one are 5 side to prevent it from rnveling.

worked separately: cut out of the cloth and E circle is worked in chain-stitch.

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FIRE-SCREENS composed of the wings of phea

g sants, or other game, are both pretty and useful,

3 and when hung at the ﬁre-side, below the bell g pull, form a nice addition to the decorations of S a drawing-room. The wings must be cut off iwhen the bird is fresh killed, and as near the ibcdy as possible; being careful not to rutﬂe the i feathers. The wing must be stretched as in this Ira/‘_I,I/raﬂr.n///»r./).r1,

cut. To put them together, place the inner edges together, and sew them up to near the

top feathers thus: when sewed, lay the screen

f son a table, right side downward, and, having

i placed a double paper over the sewing, press it Q with a hot iron. When that side is done, turn g the screen, and place a weight on the right side 5 to give it a ﬂat back; it is then ﬁt to attach to ithe handle, a gilt one looks best: form rosettes

E of the large scarlet chenile, and sew one on each

ﬁside so as to cover where the handle joins; a i pair of scarlet chenile tassels and silk cord are required, as seen in design: the screen is hung

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 EDITOR’S TABLE. EDITORIAL GRIT-CHAT.

Blessings on children—blessings on the mothers who M JWWJ” Lrrru'. Cnxanasx.—We have often tried to imagine what i have common sense enough not to spoil them before they the world would be without babies. Deplorable reverie! can walk. during which our speculations have been the brownest kind of brown. No little ﬂowers upspringing—no crocuses gol GLUrroar.-—“Do for pity’s sake let the child have all he dening the black and crusted earth—no tender grasses with wants. How can I blame him for indulging in what I love delicious tints of emerald—no delicate vines; but instead a .3 and can‘t possibly do without!” wilderness of great trees and deformed bushes, with scraggy And so little Georgy had another piece of pie, and another foliage and demented trunks, with names cut upon them, on doughnut, another cup of sloppy tea, and another dish of the outside, but hopelessly full of dust and ashes. No grace preserves. § ful little hills or rivulets a spans breadth—no trickling water Who wondered at his distressingly lazy yawns as he turned fall’s murmuring music—no silvery and incessantly busy from the table? Who wondered that he lolled from sofa to little tongues—nothing but the high. heaven-soaring moun sofa, grew cross and troublesome as night came on, and was tains, cracked and seamed, and broken with the convulsions ﬁnally carried grumbling and hateful to bed. of past centuries—nothing but vast, earth-swallowing oceans The feeding process is commenced in the morning. “Georgy and tremendous Niagaras. wants pie—go get it out of the pantry. Jenny. cut a slice Oh! dear—a world full of men and women—but no little of fruit cake for the dear child to carry to school. Have you children! Think of it. There wouldn‘t be a bit of the milk had enough, dear? Just a little more coffee—put plenty of of human kindness in this sublunary habitation, and we are milk in, Jenny. Dear little fellow! how he enjoys his food!" constrained to think we should be overwhelmed with a de Yes, and how he lounges over his desk at school! How luge of vinegar. his red eyes. glued with an unmeaning stare to his book, Still, it gives us a sort of topsy-turvy feeling to come upon wink and blink! Hear his heavy sighs, the result of a dis a squad of infantile liibernians. with countenances like ani~ tended stomach. See him forever yawning on the play mated molasses cakes, and giving indisputable evidence of ground, only intermitting to ﬁlch—on the sly—a bit- of plum their origin from the dust of the earth. though in their case cake or an apple from his pocket. Your gluttons are always the dust has been pleutifully mixed with water—I say it stingy, mean and contemptible. gives one a topsy-turvy feeling! There we see all the help Parents—do you not know that an improper indulgence lessness of babyhoml. all its trickery, all its bald, know in rich and highly seasoned food has an effect not only upon nothingism, without the blessed inﬂuences of soap and water the body, but the imagination, and the whole moral being? -sprawling instead of falling into graceful attitudes—or if To a child, especially to one possessed of a nervous tem falling at all, immersed in gallons of dirty suds—its dimples perament, and ﬁne organization, with a mind so liable to be crusted with filth—its eyes ﬁlled with sand—its hands— overwrought as of itself to feed upon life and wear it away, “description can no farther go." gluttony is a formidable enemy. It stimulates the passions That sort of babyhood is very distressing to sentimental and brings them prematurely into action. It weakens the people, and yet there is a kind of pleasure in noting how s power to resist temptation in more ways than one. It ren thoroughly the little monkeys enjoy themselves. No screams f. ders the blood, which should ﬂow steadily onward, like the of “Don‘t touch that!"—“ Don’t do this!"—“Don’t do the ‘v pure river from its exhaustless fountain, thick and turbid in other i” No costly Honiton laces, for pulling which many its swollen veins. It makes the drunkard. the debascd and an embryo lover of the ﬁne arts gets a hearty slapping, and ruined dobauchee. More vile animal natures in mature life the heart-ache beside—for slaps don’t always stay on the are caused by this sinful selfishness, fostered by parents, outside, mind you! They penetrate and remain printed on than the world is aware of. More criminals fill the lonely the moral nerves, long after the red impression of the hand cell, and sleep upon the damp flags of prison ﬂoors, brought has faded. there directly through the indulgence of the vice of gluttony, Poor little chicks! it requires a gigantic amount of faith than can be estimated. to see school-teachers, and ministers, and senators, and presi 80 please don’t let Georgy eat till his eyes stand out. dents, and all sorts of good things, emanating from those Please don’t send him to school overfed to worry some poor questionable pug-nosed babies, and yet they have a better teacher. who ought to have the patience of four-aud-twenty chance than the silken scions of wealth and leisure, Who 2 Jobs all compressed in one. Don‘t say that you like to eat study the ﬁrst principles of evil on a reﬁned plan, that makes 3 all you want, and, therefore, Georgy shall do likewise—4w them, many of them, admirably developed villains in time. cause you may like the man who could digest ten-penny And yet, it strikes us that there are very few real, living nails, and children seldom have such a faculty. babies. What with the pinning and the bandaging, the bio—teach Georgy to GXPI‘ClSO self-denial. Let him see mint-teas, the tossing, the irregular feeding, the rocking, the that you value some things more than victuals and drink— bare legs, arms and bosom, the overwrapped spine, and his future welfare—his immortal soul. Don't make him a other known persecutions, the babies don‘t thrive. They walking batch of doughnuts, a holocaust of mince-pies, a are said often to be brought up by hand. We think in some hecatomb of meats and gravies. cases it would be better if they could be brought up by Remember Georgy is among those who sing so sweetly machinery. So much pressing and worrying seldom result sometimes, in the turn out of a healthy, happy, red-checked, energetic “ I want to be an angel." boy, who smashes almost everything he touches; but if I’lv /I’l frJ/IMr/I‘ f/‘mM’l/IN’/I‘M/N f/W.'I

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trained right, smashes to good purpose when his hand ae quircs its man’s strength and cunning. Who adds some thing to the world‘s Wealth and thought and happiness, and makes the mother and the father exult with an honest pride that they have given character, as well as bone and sinew to the being they have trained.

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OUR Comasn EIBEILIBHXBHT.—Thi8 beautiful affair excels even the one in the January number. It consists ofa purse, and a traveling bag, both designed expressly for “ Peterson,” by Mrs. Jane Weaver. Being colored, they can be worked from the pattern.


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"Hosea to “non Hosea is Deaf—We hardly ever look over a ﬁle of exchanges, without ﬁnding some story or poem, originally written for this Magazine, copied without credit. Gem-rally. we suppose, this omission of an acknowledgment

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is unintentional: but it is to be regretted; for it deprives us

of a merited due. We try to publish the very best stories, and the fact that so many are copied is some proof that we do—is it not annoying, therefore, to ﬁnd that we get credit for those very stories only about once in half a dozen times? Very frequently, the tales have been copied from English journals. which have pirated them from “Peterson.” Lately, a leading Boston journal printed a sketch. which it heralded ' as translated from the German, but which we found to be -

one of our own bantlings, that had been kidnapped by a Berlin periodical. and from that translated back into its original mother-tongue. Will our exchanges oblige us, when they copy stories from “Peterson,” by giving this Magazine the proper credit? “ Pam‘s Bamxras'r.”-The mezzotint of “Miranda,” in our January number. was universally praised. So also was “In the Bitter Cold." But we think “Papa’s Breakfast," and “A Winter Night,” will be equally popular. Neither of them require a description at our hands. “Papa‘s Break fast.” esprrially. is very beautiful. What a charming little dear it is! How carefully she carries the precious treasure that has been entrusted to her, and how proud she will be. when she reaches the ﬁeld where her father is at work, and when he praises her, as he is sure to do, for having brought

his meal so deftly! The “ Winter Night” is hardly less bean tifnl, some may even think it more so. Certainly, nothing can excel the ﬁdelity, with which the artist has reproduced the effect of moonlight, as seen on a still and frosty night. Trrz Gorarsmr or Muss Susana—A charming photo graph, representing the bride conducted home, has been published by J. P7. Tiltou 8: Co., of Boston, after a design by F. (J. Dnrley. The picture is for sale, in Philadelphia, by W. G. Hazard. The precise lines in the poem, which the artist illustrates, are the following: “ Pleasantly murmured the brook, as they trims-ed the ford in the forest, Pleased with the image that passed, like a dream of love through its bosom.” A Warm 10 Km Comiauroas.—It is useless to send stories to Us for publication unless they are of ﬁrst-rate merit. Indeed, we have so much manuscript on hand, and so many contributors regularly engaged, that we shall be able to accept nothing. even if meritorious, unless it is short and to the point. Stories, from two to four printed pages long, are the only ones we want at present; but they must be racy and terse, or they have no chance of being pub lisbed.

A FINE POEM—Professor Lowell. of Harvard University, is the author of the following beautiful poem Godminster! is it Fancy’s play? I know not, but the word Sings in my heart, nor can I say I dreamed the name, or heard;

Yet fragrant in my mind it clings As blossom after rain,

And builds of half-remembered things This vision in my brain. Through aisles of long-drawn centuries My spirit walks in thought, And to that symbol lifts its eyes Which iiod‘s own pity wrought; From Calvary shines the altar‘s gleam, The Church's East is there, The ages one great minster seem That throbs with praise and prayer. And all the way from Calvary down, The curven pavement shows Their graves. who won the martyrs' crown, And safe in God‘s repose; The saints of many a warring creed, Who now in lleaven have learned That all paths to the Father lead Where Self the feet have spurned. And as the mystic aisles I pace, By aureoled workmen built, Lives ending at the Cross I trace Alike through grace and guilt; One Mary bathes the blessed feet With ointment from her eyes; With spikenard one; and both are sweet, For both are sacriﬁce. Moravian hymn and Roman chant In one devotion blend,

To speak the soul’s eternal want Of Him. the inmost friend;

One prayer soars cleansed with martyr-ﬁre, One hoarse with sinner‘s tears, In Heaven both plain with one desire, And God one music hears. While thus I dream. the bells clash out Upon the Sabbath air.

Each seems a selﬁsh faith to shout— A hostile form of prayer. My dream is shortened. yet who knows But in that lleaven so near, This discord into music ﬂows In God's atoning ear. 0h. chime oh? of blessed Charity! Peal soon that Easter morn, “'heu (Tlirist for all shall risen be, And in all hearts new-horn! That Pentecost, when utterance clear To all men shall be given, When all can say, My brother here, And hear My son in Heaven. A Hospital) Tnoussxn -—The Bloomington (Mo) Messen ger sayst—“If there is one Magazine we receive with more pleasure than another. it is ‘Pcterson.’ It is the best and cheapest work of the kind published.” This is a sentiment which not less than a hundred thousand fair ladies also echo this year.‘

Aver» llss'rr Worms—Be careful how and what you say, especially if you are angry or worried. A harsh word is easier spoken than recalled. A little monosyllable, hastily uttered. may pain a father, mother, husband, sister, or child for hours, perhaps for days. The Bible has said, “a soft an~ REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. swer turneth away wrath." Remember that, when your Wild Flowers. Drawn and Colored from Nature. By Mrs. patience is tried. and speak gently, instead of angrily. Badger. With an Introduction by Mrs. L. H. Sigoumry. Large Nothing is more lovely in woman than amiabillty. Ihlio. With twcnty-twopage (blond Illustrations. New York: New Music—Oliver Ditson & Co., Boston, have just Charles Seribncr.—This volume, superb in its mechanical published “Lillian Lee," written and composed by J. execution, has never had its equal in America among McNaughton. 8. T. Gordon, New York, has published. works devoted to illustrations of natural products. It con “('nme Meet Me TwNight,” a serenade, the words by J. tains the ﬁnest specimens of our ﬁeld and forest flowers,

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ant meadow grass; the wood lily, and the delicate purple the author’s prejudices of education, and for a love of exag geration that seems to be natural to the man. The embel lishments are very showy, and in a new style.

fringed orchis; the cardinal ﬂower. or Indian feather; the

purple wild aster and fringed gentian, late woodland visitors, when “the melancholy days are come." A brilliant cluster of red maple leaves is given. touched with the warm tints of early frost. The indefatigable authoress has not only drawn all these groups from nature, but has colored over ten thou sand impressions with her own hand. to secure absol e ﬁdelity to the models. The delicate fringe and colored down, and the ﬁne shading, are wonderfully true to nature, and creditable to the perfection of art. The volume should be on the centre-table of every lady of taste.

.Ni'ght alps. Stories."

By the author of “Aunt Fanny‘s Christmas

New York: Appleton it (‘0.—A book of stories for

little children, with eight illustrations. ‘- Aunt Fanny” writes charmingly for the little ones. “The Doctor,” and " Dame 'l‘rot and her Cat,” are two sidesplitting stories; while “Little Alice. and “Good Little Henry,” fully bear out the ~

A History of Philip the Second, King of Spain. By W'il //_'xI/-2‘J.’rIIIIrl/Mf‘t''J./lI-V"'J-/Il>W’r“JI/Mfl:NI!/3Mf2I/?lf‘ liam II. Prescott. Vol. III. Boston : I’hillips. Sampson 19 G).— We think this volume even more interesting than those which have preceded it, for, with the exception of two chap ters, which are devoted to Philip’s personal character and

habits, it is occupied by a narrative of the great Morisco re bellion, that last desperate effort of the Spanish Arabs to recover their lost Granada. It is in such narratives that Prescott excels. His rapid, graphic style; the masterly manner in which he groups events; the vivid pictures of the scenery amid which the action of the story is carried on; the dramatic force with which he often brings out his characters; all these render Prescott without an equal in this depart ment of history. Our author, also, is as thorough a student as he is a successful dclineator. He never sits down to write till he has mastered every detail,and become, not only accu rately informed of the minutest facts, but infused with the very spirit of the times which he is about to describe. More

author's intention, when she says in her preface, “ Especially have I tried to exhibit the beauty and goodness of virtue, so entwined in the thread of every story. as to render unneces» sary a dry moral at the end for the children to skip, as they invariably do.” Buds from the Christmas Bought, and other Tales. By Virginia F. Townsend. New York: Stanford d.“ Delis-321'.— A most seasonable book by one of our favorite contributors. Miss Townsend's stories are always charmingly written, and they are uncxceptionable in their high religious tone. Old and young will pick up the little volume before us, and but few will put it dowa till they have read it to the last page. “ Right Across the Street,” is one of the most beautiful storiel we have ever read. lllcta. Gray; or, What Make: Home Happy. By M. J. McIntosh, author of “Aunt Kitty’s Thin,” dc. (it. New York: D. Appleton & (ix—The announcement of a book by Miss McIntosh. is sufﬁcient to insure its sale. The volume before us is adapted to young ladies particularly, and is written in the author’s usual happy style. No mother need be afraid to place this volume in the hands of her daugh

over, he is always charitable, though he does not hesitate to

censure, when the censure is deserved. Motley, who has written upon some of the same events, is more minute, more declamatory, and more eloquent, as many may think. But his heat sometimes suggests the possibility of partizanship. The calmer mood of Prescott preserves the latter historian from every such imputation. We rise from the perusal of this volume. feeling our incompctency to praise it as it de serves, and regretting that there are not more of such books of history in the language.

tors.

The Fair llfaid of Perth.

By the author of “ Waverley."

2 rols., 12 mo. Boston: Ticknor .r- F.'¢1.i.;._w0 have here the fortydhird and forty-fourth volumes of the now famous “Household Edition of Scott's Novels.” Every lady of taste ought to have this edition of tho romances of the great Wizard of the North; and as the series is now nearly at its close, the present is a ﬁtting occasion for purchasing.

Sunshine; or. Hate l’inton. By Harriet B. lil’Ketrer. 1 1:01., 12 mo. I’hiloda: Lindsay d5 Blackiston.—The aim of the writer of this book. has been, as she says in her preface, to present a youthful Christian, in the midst of much in firmity, still adorning the doctrine of God, her Saviour. in all things. This aim Mrs. M'Keever has successfully carried out. It is just the book for mothers to put into the hands of their daughters. The publishers have issued it in a very neat style. 1

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The I'ulc Log. A series of Stories for the Young. A'cw fork: Stanford at Dclisscr.--This little volume will be a prize for children who love fairy stories: and what child does not! The volume is' issued by Stanford it Delisser, in their usual superior style. The Mustce.

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Shepard. Clark é Brown.—-A new novel, intended to depict

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Most of the addresses, in the present volume, were prepared for the workmgmien of Brighton, but they can be read with profit by all persons. and will, by some, be preferred to the sermons. The book is printed and bound to match the former volumes of the series.

mistake not, the true metal in him. Thcy are gracefully written, in a simple, earnest manner, and are, altogether, worthy of the superior type and paper which the publishers have bestowed on them.

From Poor-Hoax to Pulpit. A Book for Youth. By Wm. M. Thayer. 1 ooh, 18 mo. Boston: E. 0. Libby it (b.—This is a narrative of the life of Dr. John Kitto, who, though origi

nally a deaf pauper, rose, by his own personal exertions, to eminence among Biblical and theological scholars. Such an achievement, Mr. Thayer well says, naturally suggests the inquiry, “how was it done?” This question, accordingly. Mr.'l'ha_ver answers; and he answers it in a way to stimulate youth to similar exertions with those for which Dr. Kitto became celebrated. We commend the book heartily to parents. 1‘. B. Peterson .1 Brothers are the Philadelphia 4 agents for the publishers. lI/1'4 It '-' f(I/‘f-I/‘Jil/I' I‘lJN'f/Idw

Willi: lVinL-ic's A'ursrry Songs of Scotland. Edited by Hrs. Silzbos. Boston: Tick-nor é Fidds.—This is a collection of nursery songs, written by some of the best posts of Scot land, with the laudable design of elevating the tone of this species of literature. Mrs. Silsbeo has changed the Scotti cisms into English words, and made a few other Judicious alterations, so that the work is now admirably adapted ful‘ circulation in the United States. The publishers issue the volume in a style of great taste. Hereafter no other nur sery songs ought to ﬁnd admission into families.

Life Among the Children. By the author af“Aunt Fanny's Slon'cs,” die, (it. New York: Stanford di- DeIisser.—A book suited to little folks, as any one of them who will read the stories of “The Doll‘s Wedding,” and “Little Peter,” will soon be convinced. It has three pretty illustrations, and is in uniform size with the other books noticed, issued by this house. Thorndale; or, The Cbnjlict of Opinions. By William Smith. 1 rol., 12 m0. Boston: Ticknor ct- Fields—The best English Reviews praised this volume, when it was ﬁrst pub lished in London. Now, that it has been reprinted here, we recognim the justice of their culogies. It is a volume that commends itself particularly to reﬂective and inquiring minds. The publishers have issued it in a neat style. Oriental This: of Fairy Land. New York: Stanford d! Artisan—These oriental tales seem to be remarkably well translated, and contain information of Eastern life, which children of much larger growth, than those for whom they purport to have been written, will be interested in. The book has three beautiful illustrations.

Trying to be Usqful. By Mrs. Madalins Leslie, author of “ Cara and the Doctor,” “ (burtuirs of lVeddal Life," “ House hold Angel,” tﬁc. Boston: Shrpard, Clark di Brown—This is another of Mrs. Leslie's ﬁne series of stories; books dedi

cated to the children of the New England Sabbath schools. They are noble books, with a noble aim.

Byc-and-Byc. By Virginia F. Townsend. .Nrw York: Stunford it Damien—We are glad to see another volume on our table by Miss Townsend. Sho cannot give us too many such. The stories in the one before us are of a very high character. The volume is printed in good, large type, on excellent paper, and has an excellent illustration. We cor dially commend it.

We think no girl

The Banks of Ncw York, Their Dealers, The Clearing House, and The Panic of185‘i’, with a Financial Chart. By J. S. Gibbons. Thirty Illustrations, by Ila-rick. 1 vol, 12 mo. New York: D. Appleton if (h—A capital book, full of curious information, and exhibiting not a little humor. The embellishments are very spitited.

can rise from the perusal of the volume before us without new impulses for good, and fully realizing the “beauty of unselfishness." ‘

The Age of Chivalry. By Thomas Buljinch, author of “ 1"he Age of Fixblc." 1 rol., 12 mo. Boston: Crosby, A'ichols é (la—This is a well executed abridgomcnt of the romances Fred Freeland,- m', The Chain of Circumstances. By of chivalry, put into a shape adapted to modern tastes. The Willis Loveyouth. 1 ML, 12 mo. Boston: E. O. Libby d? Cb. book is divided into two parts. The first contains the legends —This is a story for boys and girls, written in a pleasant of King Arthur and his knights, while the second is devoted ‘ style, and inculcating an excellent moral. The volume is to the Welsh popular tales. Several spirited embellishments, neatly printed and bound, and embellished with a good illus 2S printed in colors, adorn the volume. tration. Io


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“We are leaving here, dearest Tine,” said Havelaar resignedly, and he handed the missive from Cabinet to Verbrugge, who read the document together with Duclari.

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and butter; season the vegetables with pepper and salt, and put them into the pot. liave ready a kettle of boiling water. and pour on as much as will keep the ingredients covered while boiling, but take care not to weaken it too much. Add a large lump of butter rolled in ﬂour: put in the dumplings, and let all boil together till thoroughly done. The tripe must be boiled the day previous, and be set away in the liquor. (litres Head Soup—Boil the calf’8 head in water. adding as much salt as you desire, and a few cloves. When well done, that is. so that the meat readily leaves the bone, cut it up in small pieces, seasoning it with salt. pepper, and sweet basil, also a small quantity of parsley—over which dredge some ﬂour. Then throw the meat, &c., into the pot again, adding some dumplings and force-meat balls. The tongue should be scaldcd and skinned before it is boiled with

Upon the table should be placed a soup, and large sized

the head, and afterward be cut in slices, and seasoned with

dinner-plate for each guest, together with knife and fork.

the meat taken from off the head. Vegetable Soup—Put on four or ﬁve pounds of lean reef to boil in six quarts of water, with a little salt in it. About an hour before you serve the soup, add in (according to the time they require to boil) two roots of celery cut into slips— some cabbage, turnips, potatoes (all cut into small pieces.) and carrots. Seascn with pepper, salt, and potherbs; if you please, you can add a handful of barley.

napkin, (handsomely folded,) a wine, champaign, hock, and

ﬁnger-glass. and a goblet for water. A pyramid of flowers should occupy the centre of the table. Extra plates,glasses. dishes of ice, broken in pieces, &c., &c., should be placed upon a side-table, ready for use. The courses are to be served in order. First Course. Green Turtle Soup. Sherry. Madeira.

FISH.

Fish—C'neeached.—Cut your ﬁsh into pieces the thickness Second (burse. of your hand; season it with pepper and salt: let it lie an Salmon, boiled.

New Potatoes.

Holland Sauce.

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Sweetbreads.—-Fillet of Beef with Mushrooms. Lamb Cutlets.

Green Peas.

Tomatoes.

Mashed Potatoes. Liebfraumilch. Rmrth (burse. Soft Shell Crabs.

Turtle Steak with Olives.

Fried Potatoes.

Wood-cock.

Roast Potatoes.

Moet.—Fleur do Sillery. Fifth (burse. Lobster Salad.

Broiled Chickens.

Chicken Salad.

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hour: dry it well with a cloth: ﬂour it, and then fry it a fine brown—in oil. Boil a sufﬁcient quantity of vinegar to cover the ﬁsh, adding to it a little garlic, mace, and whole pepper, as much oil as vinegar, and salt to your liking. Mix the oil and vinegar well together. and when the ﬁsh and liquor are quite cold, slice some onion. lay it in the bottom of a pot, then add a layer of ﬁsh. another of onion. and so on till the fish is all used; the liquor must not be put in till it is quite cold. Fish—Stnced.—A good way to stew ﬁsh is to mix half a.

tumbler of wine with as much water as will cover the ﬁsh ' in the stew-pan, and put in a little pepper and salt, three or four onions. a crust of bread toasted very brown, one anchovy, and a good lump of butter, and set them over a gentle tire, shaking the stew-pan now and then. that it may not burn. Just before you serve it, pour your gravy into a saucepan, and thicken it with a little butter rolled in flour, some

Patisserie. Meruigues, with Cream.

Wafers. Macaroons. Vanilla Ice Cream. Harliquin Ice Cream. Strawberries and Cream. Strawberries with Wine and Sugar. Cream Cakes. Biscuit Glace. Roman Punch. Charlotte Russe. Old Burgundy. Port. Dessert. Oranges. Bananas. Pine Apple. Cherries. Almonds. Raisins. English Walnuts. Strong Chﬂke.

Old Nectar Cognac. Maraschino. Annisette.

Curacao.

SOUPS.

Pepperpot.—Take four pounds of tripe, and a small knuckle of veal, and put them into a large pot, with as much water As will cover them—some whole pepper, and a little salt. Let them boil slowly, keeping the pot covered closely. When the tripe is quite tender. and the veal well boiled, skim the liquor, and strain it; cut the tripe into small pieces, and put them hack into the pot, with the soup. Have ready some sweet herbs, chopped, or rubbed fine—some sliced onions. and sliced potatoes; make some small dumplings with ﬂour

catchup and walnut pickle; beat all well together till it becomes quite smooth, then pour it on your ﬁsh. and set it over the ﬁre to heat. Serve it up hot. 7errapins.—llave ready two pots of boiling water; put the terrapins in one, and boil them until you can skin them; then throw them into the other pot, with salt to your liking, and boil them until the shell will open with case. When you open your terrapin be careful not to break the gall bag; take that, and the sand bag out, (with care) cut up the flesh, and warm it in a gravy made with a quarter of a pound of butter, pepper, salt, ﬂour and nutmeg. Just before you dish your terrapin, add wine to your liking. The above propor tion of ingredients are enough for a vegetable dishful of ten rapiu. White Fish Share—Wash two anchovies, and put them into a saucepan, with one glassful of white wine, and two glassfuls of water. halfa nutmeg, grated. and a little lemon peel. When it has boiled ﬁve or six minutes, strain it through a sieve. add to it a spoonful of white wine vinegar, thicken it a little, and then add nearly a pound of butter rolled in ﬂour; boil it well, and pour it hot upon the fish. HEATS.

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Pig's Fat—Boil the heart and liver of your pig for about ten minutes. and then cut them up very small. Let the feel. boil till they are pretty tender, then take them out, and split them. Thicken your gravy with flour and butter; put in the liver and heart, a slice of lemon, a spoonful of white wine. and a little salt, and boil it a short time.

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yolk of an egg, add to it two spoonfuls of good cream, and a little grated nutmeg; put in your pig's feet, and shake the pan over the ﬁre—but do not let it boil. Pour the gravy, &c-, into a dish. and lay the feet in it, with the skin side up. Guns; (iiblds—Stcwrd.—Cut the pinions of the goose in taro parts, and the neck in four pieces; slice the gizmrd, clean it

well, and then stew them in two quarts of water—or. mutton broth—with a quantity of sweet herbs, one anchovy, a few whole peppers. three or four cloves, a spoonful of catchnp, and an onion. When the giblcts are tender, put in a spoon

for-cement balls, fried oysters. and the brains made into little cakes dipped in butter and fried. You may add wine, or whatever you please. Croquets.—'l‘ake sweetbreads. Cold veal, or fowl, with a small portion of the lean and fat of ham chopped together— add of stale bread half the quantity of the meat, with salt, pepper, mustard, two tablespoonfuls of ketchup. and a good sized lump of butter. Knead the ingredients well together, until the mixture resembles sausage meat, then roll it into small balls, and dip the balls into the yolks of eggs, well beaten, cover them with bread crumbs, and fry them a pretty light brown. Chicken .Shlad.——-Boil a chicken that does not exceed in weight a pound and a half. When quite tender, take it up, cut the meat in small strips. and prepare the following sauce: Boil four eggs three minutes, take them out of the shells, wash and mix them with two spoonfuls of drawn butter, twelve spoonfuls of vinegar, one tcnspoonful of mixed mus tard, the same of salt, a little pepper and essence of celery. Curried Chickens.-After your chickens are properly cleaned and cut up, let them stew in as much water as will cover them. for half an hour, or until they are nearly done; add a small quantity of salt to the water. Then put into the pan one or two onions, cut ﬁne, and stow the chickens five minutes longer; then add as much butter and ﬂour.

Cheesc—Stcwed.—Cut some cheese very thin, lay it in a toaster and set it before the ﬁre; pour a glass of ale over it,

ful of good cream, thicken it with flour and butter, and serve

let it stand till it is all like a light custard, then pour it over them in a deep dish. Gmx—Roaded.—Make a stuﬂing of bread crumbs, a few some toast and serve it hot. sage leaves. and two or three onions, (chopped fine) together PASTRIII. with a good lump of butter, a teaspoonful of pepper, and two Apple Dumplings—Bot'led.—Havo ready the quantity of teaspo-mfuls of salt. When your goose is Well prepared, put in the stufﬁng, spit it, dust it with flour, and set it before ﬂour you may require, (according to the number of npples,) the ﬁre. When it is thoroughly hot. buste it with fresh put into it a little salt. and sufﬁcient boiling water to make better. If it be a large goose, it will require an hour and a it the proper consistency; beat it well, roll it out, and put in the apples—separately. Tie them in cloths, and boil half to must. When cooked enough, dredge and haste it. Haum-h ry' Vmison—RwrL—When you have spitted your three-quarters of an hour. They may also be made of rice, ' previously boiled in salt and water—the apples surrounded venison, lay over it a large sheet of paper, then a thin, com mon paste with another paper over it; tie it well to keep the with the rice, and put in cloths as above. Beef-steak Pia—Take cold roast beef. cut it into thin slices paste from falling. If the hsnnch be a large one, it will re quire four hours roasting. When done enough, take otl‘ the about an inch and a half long. Take raw potatoes, peel paper and paste, dust it well with ﬂour, and baste it with them, and cut them into thin _slices. Have ready a deep butter; when it is a light brown, dish it up with brown dish, lay some of the potatoes at the bottom, then a layer of If /I ~lIf‘!.’l/'fIo‘.J"f/{lI‘J/'lJI/’l/,fIa/'l I-/l‘/'f” N

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beef, and so on till the dish is filled.

Fmimn—Hashod.—Cut your venison in thin slices. Then put a large glassful of red wine into a pan, with a spoonful of mushroom catchup, the mine quantity of browning, an onion stuck with cloves, and half an anchovy, chopped ﬁne; when it boils put in your venison, and let it boil three or ﬂour minutes; pour it into a deep dish, and lay cnrrant jelly

chicken pie, fill it with boiling water, cover it with a crust, and bake it. Ibtatoe Fri'ftrrs.—Ingredients—Two pounds of mashed boiled potatoes. half a pound of butter, one pint of milk, half a pint of wheat flour, two eggs well beaten, and one glass of good wine. Mix the whole well together, and make it into astiff batter; drop the batter into lard or butter; only fry it until it becomes ofa brown color. Serve the fritters with wine sauce. I‘bfafoe Pica—Rub together three quarters of a pound of

round it.

Onion Sums for Daria—Boil eight or ten large onions, changing the water two or three times while they are boil ing. W hen cool-ted enough, chop them on a board, (to keep them from growing a bad color,) and then put them in a saucepan with a quarter of a pound of butter, and two spoonfuls of thick cream; boil it a little, and pour it over the ducks.

Season it as you would

sugar and half a pound of butter—well beaten; add one

pound of grated potatoes. (previously boiled and allowed to become cold,) and a wlueglassfnl of brandy-wine and rose watcr, mixed. Make the usual pie paste, and fill it with the mixture.

XLDE DISHES.

Rice Frillers.—Boil half a pound of rice in water till it becomes soft; pour it out to cool, and add to it one pint of

A (111)": B'md—Drascd.—Procure a calf 's head—scald off the hair and clean it thoroughly. Cut it in two, take out

milk, half a pound of flour, and a teaspoonful of powdered

the brains. and boil the head very white and tender; take

cinnamon.

one part quite off the bone. and cut in it nice pieces with the

wine sauce.

Fry them in butter or lard, and serve them with

tongue, dredge it with ﬂour, and let it stew over a slow ﬁre

Pumpkin Pia—Ingredicnts.—-llalf a pound of stewed

for about half an hour in rich gravy. made of veal, mutton,

pumpkin, three eggs. quut'tcr of a pound of butter, one pint

and a piece of bacon, seasoned with popper, salt, onion, and of milk, half a pound of sugar. a wincglussful of wine and a very little mace; it must be strained before the last is put brandy, mixed; spice to your taste, and rosewnter, if you in. The other part of the head must be taken off in one like it. Duke it in a crust. whole pime: stuﬂ it with nice forcenicat, roll it together Butler Pancakes—Beat three eggs with one pound of flour, tightly. and stew it tender in gravy; then place it in the add one pint of milk, and a little salt; fry them in lard or middle of: dish, laying the hash round it. Garnish it with i butter, and grate sugar over them.


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half a pint of water; roll it out with the addition of half a nials and biennials, such as gcntianeila, lobelias, thrift,

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Ihstcfor Canada—Put half a pound of butter in a pan of water; take two pounds of ﬂour, and when your butter boils, pour in your ﬂour, with as much water as will make it into a good paste, and work it well. Pu] Paste for Fbur l’i'c Piston—Take half a pound and

Il'amdcss Pudding.—The ingredients are, one cupful of butter, three cupfuls of sugar, ﬁve cupfuls of ﬂoor, one cupful of milk, ﬁve eggs, one wineglassful of rose brandy, half a nutmeg grated, two teaspoonfnls of cream of tartar, and one tcaspoonful of carbonate of soda. Rub the butter, sugar, ﬂour, and cream of tartar well together, then add the milk and yolks of eggs; beat it ten minutes, and then add the soda, dissolved in boiling water, and the whites of the eggs. Bake this pudding one hour in a moderate oven. Pumpkin Pudding.—Add together three pints of pumpkin, well stewed and squeezed, one quarter of a pound of butter, eight eggs, well beaten, halfa pint of cream and half a pint of milk, one glass of brandy, one glass of wine, cinnamon. and nutmeg, and sugar to your taste. Bake the whole three quarters of an hour. Indian Pudding, No. l.—Ingredients.—One quart of milk, three or four eggs, half pound of currants, half pound of raisins, and half a pound of suct. Make a tolerably stiﬂ' batter with some Indian meal, and add a little salt; sweeten, and add lemon or spice to your taste. Bake it about one hour in a moderate oven. Gipxy Pudding.—-Cut stale sponge cake into thin slices,

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pread them with currant jelly, or preserves, put two pieces

together, like sandwiches, and lay them in a dish. Make a soft custard, pour it over the cake, while hot; then let it cool before serving it. ' ICICRBAIB.

Observations upon Creams, Custards, etc—When you make any kind of creams and custards, take great care that your pans be well tinned; put a spoonful of water into your pan, in order to prevent the cream from sticking to the bottom of it; then beat your yolks of eggs. strain them, and follow the directions of your receipt. As to cheese cakes, they should not be made long before you bake them—for standing makes them oil and grow sad; a moderate oven bakes them best; if it is too hot it burns them and takes off the beauty; and a very slow oven makes them sad and look black. La Ibmpadour Cream—Boat the white of ﬁve eggs to a strong froth; put them into a pan, with two spoonfuls of orange ﬂour water, and two ounces of sugar; stir it gently for three or four minutes, then pour it into your dish, pour good melted butter over it, and serve it hot. Vill/IINI/JI’IJ‘INW/I/M

fever-few, perennial asters, carnations, golden-rod, foxglove,

sWcet-williams, monksbood,

columbine,

Canterbury bells, and many others. In planting your ﬂowers, arrange them regularly, and intermix the various kinds in such a way, as to have a variety of colors as well as a regular succession of ﬂowers during the ﬂowering season. Hyacinths, Tulips, Ranunculuses, dc, of the more valu able kinds, shonld still be defended from excessive rain, frost. snow and cold, as described in the January number. By doing this the ﬂowers will bloom in much greater per fection than if left fully exposed to the weather, though the more common kinds do not need this care. A free circula tion of air should be maintained, if possible, except when it is actually cold enough to freeze the earth, or during cold, hard rains. Borders, ﬁnds. etc, should be dressed and digged if the weather will permit, and thoroughly cleared of weeds and litter. Let the surface of the borders and beds be lightly and carefully loosened on a dry day with a hoe, and then they should be neatly raked. All beds, &c., not dug and prepared before, should now be done, ready for the reception of seeds, 8c. Flowering Shrubs should now be trimmed, if necessary, and the earth dug around them. Flowers in the Home should have particular attention paid to occasional waterings and fresh air. All kinds of plants require an equal amount of fresh air, though they do not all need the same quantity or frequency of watering. Immons. oranges, and myrtles, and many other plants of a woody nature, need water frequently, but never much at a time, and give them none at all unless absolutely necessary. The bulbous kinds will require water less frequently, and in less quantities than the woody kinds. Aloes, cactuses, &c., must be watered very sparingly, and only when the earth in the pots is very dry. In fact, all tubs and pots should be examined very carefully, and no water should be

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given except when needed, as a little will be serviceable,

but too much very injurious at this season. Plenty of fresh air on the contrary is absolutely indispensable to the health of plants. Every day that the weather is mild the windows should be opened for a short time, but be very careful not

to admit sharp winds or frosty air. The safest method (if practicable) is to lower the sashes from the top, thus allow ing the foul air to escape, and the fresh to come in.

Be also

particular not to keep your room too hot. OUR GARDEN FOR FEBRUARY. Out-of-Donrs iVorkF-If the weather is mild and dry, the latter part of this month many hardy annual ﬂower seeds may be sown, particularly the sweet and Tanger peas, lurk spur and ﬂea Adonis, which will do much better than if left later in the season. The annual sunﬂowers, dwarf poppy, catch-ﬂy, candy tuft, nigella, scarlet pea, dwarf lychnis, mallow, Venus looking-glass, and some others may also be sown with propriety. These ﬂowers should not be trans planted, but after digging the borders, make in them with

a trowel small patches, about six inches in width, at moder ate distances, making the surface even. Sow the seeds in these patches, covering the smaller seed about a quarter of an inch. and the larger deeper in proportion to their sizns. The different kinds of peas must be covered an inch deep at least. After the plants have. been up some time, they may be thinned where they stand too thick: for instance, the

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GAMES FOR EVENING PARTIES. Tm: AM or Ct..uavor.xcs.-'l‘his trick is performed by two persons; one of them generally a lady, is seated on a

chair with her eyes securely blindfolded—the other. either a lady or gentleman. goes round among the company, collect ing various articles, such as gloves, watches. handkerchicfa, &c.. all of which are correctly described by his confederate, although she is. of course, unable to see them. This trick is effected by means of the subjoined system of questions and answers. PMIOLEGN.

Vhat is this?--A watch. What have I got in my hand l—A knife. Tell me what this isl—A ribbon.


text: Chapters on Jewish Literature/Chapter 9

title: Chapters on Jewish Literature/Chapter 9