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 T three o’clock in the afternoon, across the village green of Frishets went the sexton; he had in his hand a large key and directed his steps to the chapel.

Any of the villagers who were standing by the window and saw the sexton, at first only said to themselves, “Where, I wonder, is old Vanek going?” Afterwards they called to their wives, to the servants, or to any one who happened to be near at hand, “Look! look! Vanek is going to the chapel! Can there be a fire anywhere, or can any one be dead?”

“And where can there be a fire, and who can have died?” was the answer to these questions; but to every one it was apparent that one or other of these events must have taken place.

After this those who stood by the windows ran out in front of the gate, and cast a curious glance after Vanek to see whether he was not going into the chapel. At this moment his key rattled in the door, the door opened, and Vanek vanished within the chapel.

“What, I wonder, can Vanek want in the chapel?” thereupon inquired the neighbours one of another, on the village green; each took a few steps toward the middle of the green, and then replied to one another that no one could tell, because there was no fire in sight, and no one in the village had been seriously ill.

At that instant the funeral bell rang out. “The Lord God grant him heaven”, said the neighbours’ wives, crossed themselves and began to pray.

The men removed their pipes from their mouths, lifted their caps and crossed themselves from brow to breast. Every one was like a statue, only that his lips moved somewhat; in the village nothing stirred, the funeral bell swung to and fro and spoke to all, and yet no one knew for whom it was ringing.

All at once the funeral bell was silent and the neighbours and neighbours’ wives, just as they had at first trailed off from the windows on to the village green, so now they trailed over the village green toward the chapel, each one only saying, “The Lord God be with us! Who is it, I wonder?” Their impatience increased


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162 The Total Eclipse of 20th May 1919, and the Influence of Gravitation on Light: A. S. Eddington, ibid., March, 1919.

Discussion on the Theory of Relativity: M. N. Roy. Astron. Soc., vol. lxxx., No. 2., p. 96, December 1919.

The Displacement of Spectrum Lines and the Equivalence Hypothesis: W. G. Duffield, M. N. Roy. Astron. Soc., vol. lxxx.; No. 3, p. 262, 1920.

Space, Time and Gravitation: A. S. Eddington. Camb. Univ. Press, 1920.

The Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism: J. H. Jeans (4th edition). Camb. Univ. Press, 1920.

The Electron Theory of Matter:. Camb. Univ. Press.

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Rh that the radiation of the earth is much less refrangible. But in the absence of a more appropriate determination we may use this for our purpose; it is probable that for a less hot radiator the absorptive power of the carbonic acid would come out a little greater compared with that of water-vapour, for the absorption-bands of CO2, are, on the whole, less refrangible than those of H2O (see pp. ). Using the number 0.09 vol. p. c. for the quantity of carbonic acid in the atmosphere, we find that rays which emanate from the upper part of the air are derived to the extent of 40 p. c. from a layer that constitutes 0.145 part of the atmosphere. This corresponds to a height of about 15,000 metres. Concerning this value we may make the same remark as on the foregoing value. In this case we have neglected the absorption by the small quantities of water-vapour in the higher atmosphere. The temperature-difference of these two layers – the one absorbing, the other radiating – is, according to Glaisher's measurements (with a little extrapolation), about 42° C.

For the clouds we get naturally slightly modified numbers. We ought to take the mean height of the clouds that are illuminated by the sun. As such clouds I have chosen the summits of the cumuli that lie at an average height of 1855 metres, with a maximum height of 3611 metres and a minimum of 900 metres. I have made calculations for mean values of 2000 and 4000 metres (corresponding to differences of temperature of 30° C. and 20° C. instead of 42° C. for the earth's surface).

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 because old Vanek still lingered long in the chapel, doubtless, in order to tie again to the bell the rope, which owing to its rottenness so frequently snapped asunder.

And when Vanek issued from the chapel, and his huge rusty key again scraped in the door a cry arose as if from a single mouth, “Who is it for, prithee, who is it for?”

“The Lord grant him heaven—old Loyka”, answered the sexton, and drew the key out of the door. “Oh Lord! Lord! and is it really he?” repeated the neighbours in great astonishment.

At this moment approached the spot, with a basket in his hand, Vena, who acted as messenger in the parish, dwelt at Loyka’s house and, moreover, had the reputation of being a rascally impudent fellow. He also inquired, “Who is that for?”

“For your good old master, the pensioner”, answered the neighbours, sympathetically.

“For our—ho! ho! for our master, the pensioner—ho! ho!” sneered Vena, and burst out laughing. Although all held him for a fool, still it outraged their feelings when he laughed at such an occurrence.

“This is no laughing matter, Vena”, said they, reproachfully.

But something seemed to have tickled Vena’s fancy. “How, pray, isn’t it a laughing matter when it is? Sure enough, he sent me into the town early this morning, look you, with a basket, look you here; that I might bring punch and rosolek, look you here; they keep it at the brewer’s. He set me on the road as far as the gate, put some small change into my hands and said, ‘Buy there something for your own maw also, my Vena, that my flasks may not suffer by the way!’ and I am just coming from the town, I am bringing him punch and rosolek, look at it! And then he goes and dies, you say! Who is to drink it, pray? And then you say this is no laughing matter.” And again he laughed, until little by little his laughter infected the bystanders listening to it, who at last were fairly puzzled to know what it all meant, and turned inquiringly to the sexton.

The sexton, considering that Vena had dared to turn his official reputation into ridicule, strode up to the culprit as though he meant to take him by the collar. It was evident from the expression of his own eyes that he would most willingly have pulled Vena’s ears or his hair. When he stood about half a pace distant from the other, so that his nose touched Vena’s nose, and his two eyes glared into Vena’s two eyes, he exclaimed pretty sharply, “This is no time for drinking, I tell you. He for whom I have once


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 tolled the bell is dead and done for, and when I toll the bell for thee thou wilt be dead and done for.”

This speech and the manner in which it was spoken, not only convinced the neighbours, but it convinced Vena himself. He stopped, almost let fall his basket on the ground, and burst into tears. So that again in a little time he infected all the neighbours’ wives at all events with sorrow; until they were fain to wipe their eyes, and the neighbours said to one another, “Tis a poor fool, but he hath a good heart!”

After a few moments, Vena lifted the basket, took out a flask of rosolek and gulping down his sorrow, said to the neighbours and neighbours’ wives, “What’s to be done with the rosolek now that he is dead, now that he is nothing at all? Ah, neighbours! Help and drink it to his health!” He himself took the first pull and then offered it to the bystanders.

“What are you to do with him when he is a fool?” said they again to one another, half laughing, and in the meantime began to call upon the sexton to explain how it came to pass that old Loyka had died so unexpectedly.

“He dropped off! He dropped off!” said the sexton. “It came upon him just like a yawn—like a hiccup.”

“The Lord God be with us!” cried some of the neighbours’ wives, for it appeared to them that the sexton spoke as learnedly as a doctor.

“Frank, his younger grandson, was with him,” continued the sexton, “you know they loved each other truly and dearly. ‘Frank,’ he said, ‘when I die my watch will be thine. Besides this, what is in yonder drawers and chests is also thine, it is that same silver which I have collected for thee.’ Frank said, ‘Oh! grandfather, who, pray, would talk about death, and you so hale and hearty?’ and he wept. ‘Do you mean it?’ said old Loyka, ‘but I am old, within a little of a hundred years.’”

“A hundred years!” reiterated the neighbours, “that is a great age.”

The sexton proceeded: “‘Ah! Frank,’ says Loyka again, after a pause, ‘I feel constantly as though I had a clod of earth upon me. Boy! clear off this clod of earth!’” ‘You have not, grandfather', said Frank to this, and again wept. ‘You think not? Well, then lead me out on the balcony', and although in the morning he still walked like a stag, and was as fresh as a fish, now he leant upon Frank as though he could scarcely take a step forward.


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 quaint passage a little farther on, in which Pope represents man as complaining because he has not "the strength of bulls or the fur of bears," may be traced with equal plausibility to Shaftesbury or to Sir Thomas Browne; but I have not noticed it in Bolingbroke.

One more passage will be sufficient. Pope asks whether we are to demand the suspension of laws of nature whenever they might produce a mischievous result? Is Etna to cease an eruption to spare a sage, or should "new motions be impressed upon sea and air" for the advantage of blameless Bethel?

Chartres is Pope's typical villain. This is a terse version, with concrete cases, of Bolingbroke's vaguer generalities. "The laws of gravitation," he says, "must sometimes be suspended (if special Providence be admitted), and sometimes their effect must be precipitated. The tottering edifice must be kept miraculously from falling, whilst innocent men lived in it or passed under it, and the fall of it must be as miraculously determined to crush the guilty inhabitant or passenger." Here, again, we have the alternative of Wollaston, who uses a similar illustration, and in one phrase comes nearer to Pope. He speaks of "new motions being impressed upon the atmosphere." We may suppose that the two friends had been dipping into Wollaston together. Elsewhere Pope seems to have stolen for himself. In the beginning of the second epistle, Pope, in describing man as "the glory, jest, and riddle of the world," is simply versifying Pascal; then a little farther on, when he speaks of reason as the

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Rh Could you kindly tell me how far it is from here to the place where I wish to go?’

When the ogre heard this extraordinary question he burst out laughing, and as he liked the youth’s polite manners he said to him: ‘Will you enter my service?’

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Rh As they left the wood behind, Long turned to the prince and said, ‘My lord, here comes my comrade. You should take him into your service too, as you will find him a great help.’

‘Well, call him then, so that I can see what sort of a man he is.’

‘He is a little too far off for that,’ replied Long. ‘He would hardly hear my voice, and he couldn’t be here for some time yet, as he has so much to carry. I think I had better go and bring him myself,’ and this time he

stretched himself to such a height that his head was lost in the clouds. He made two or three strides, took his friend on his back, and set him down before the prince. The new-comer was a very fat man, and as round as a barrel.

‘Who are you?’ asked the prince, ‘and what can you do?’

‘Your worship, Broad is my name, and I can make myself as wide as I please.’

‘Let me see how you manage it.’

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 wind and passion as the gale on life's vast ocean, he is adapting his comparison from Locke's treatise on government.

If all such cases were adduced, we should have nearly picked the argumentative part of the essay to pieces; but Bolingbroke supplies throughout the most characteristic element. The fragments cohere by external cement, not by an internal unity of thought; and Pope too often descends to the level of mere satire, or indulges in a quaint conceit or palpable sophistry. Yet it would be very unjust to ignore the high qualities which are to be found in this incongruous whole. The style is often admirable. When Pope is at his best every word tells. His precision and firmness of touch enables him to get the greatest possible meaning into a narrow compass. He uses only one epithet, but it is the right one, and never boggles and patches or, in his own phrase, "blunders round about a meaning." Warton gives, as a specimen of this power, the lines:—

And Mr. Pattison reinforces the criticism by quoting Voltaire's feeble imitation:—

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 independent knowledge of their meaning. The famous line.

is an example of defective construction, though his language is often tortured by more elliptical phrases. This power of charging lines with great fulness of meaning enables Pope to soar for brief periods into genuine and impressive poetry. Whatever his philosophical weakness and his moral obliquity, he is often moved by genuine emotion. He has a vein of generous sympathy for human sufferings and of righteous indignation against bigots, and if he only half understands his own optimism, that "whatever is is right," the vision, rather poetical than philosophical, of a harmonious universe lifts him at times into a region loftier than that of frigid and pedantic platitude. The most popular passages were certain purple patches, not arising very spontaneously or with much relevance, but also showing something more than the practised rhetorician. The "poor Indian" in one of the most highly-polished paragraphs—

intrudes rather at the expense of logic, and is a decidedly conventional person. But this passage has a certain glow of fine humanity and is touched with real pathos. A further

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My Journal to my Cousin Mary.

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dinner and began to go up the steps. I sprang across the street to him, and my courage came back when I looked upon his good sensible face. When he recog- nized me, he seized my hand, grasped my shoulder, and gave me, with the tears actually in his eyes, a reception that hon- ors human nature.

Such genuine friendliness, in an old, distinguished man, to a young fellow like me, shows that man's heart is noble, with all its depravity.

When he had gazed some time, almost in amazement, at my tall proportions, (he never saw them perpendicular before, you know,) he said,

" Come in, come in, my boy! Some one else must see you! But she can't be more glad than I am, to see you so well, that is, I don't see how she can, for I am glad, I am glad, my boy! "

Was not this heart-warming?

When we entered, he stopped before the hat-rack, and told me "just to walk into the parlor; his daughter might be there." I could not rush in impetuously. I had to steady my color. Besides, ought I not to speak to him first?

Mr. Winston took off his hat, hung it up; then his overcoat, and hung it up. I still stood pondering, with my hand upon the door-knob. Surprised at my tardi- ness in entering, he turned and looked at me. I could not face him. He was silent a minute. I felt that he looked right through me, and saw my daring in- tentions. He cleared his throat. I quail- ed. He began to speak in a low, agi- tated voice, that I thought very ominous in tone.

"You want to speak to me, perhaps. I think I see that you do. If so, speak now. A word will explain enough. No need to defer."

" I want your consent, Sir, to speak to your daughter," I stammered out,

" My dear boy," said he, clapping me on the shoulder, " she is motherless and

brotherless, and I am an old man. Noth- ing would give me more pleasure; for I know you well enough to trust her with you. There, go in. I hear her touch the piano."

He went up stairs. I entered. My eyes swept the long, dim apartment. In the confusion of profuse luxury I could not distinguish anything at first, but soon saw the grand piano at the extreme end of the rooms. I impetuously strode the whole length of the two parlors, and she rose before me with chilling dig- nity!

Ah, Mary, that moment's blank dis- may! But it was because she thought me some bold, intruding stranger. When she saw my face, she came to me, and gave me both her hands, saying,

"Mr. ! Is it possible? I am

happy that you are so well! "

It was genuine joy; and for a mo- ment we were both simply glad for that one reason, that I was well.

" You seem so tall ! " she said, with a rather more conscious tone. She began to infer what my recovery and presence imported to her. I felt thrilling all over me what they were to me!

But I must say something. It is not customary to call upon young ladies, of whom you have never dared to consid- er yourself other than an acquaintance merely, and hold their hands while you listen to their hearts beating. This I must refrain from doing, and that in- stantly.

" Yes," I stammered, " I am well, I am quite well." Then, losing all remem- brance of etiquette But you must di- vine what followed. Truly

" God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame! "

P. S. Kate will send you her cards, and Ada ours, together with the proper ceremonious invitations to the weddings, as soon as things are arranged.


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Aberration, 59

Absorption of energy, 54

Acceleration, 76, 78, 83

Action at a distance, 57

Addition of velocities, 19, 46

Adjacent points, 105

Aether, 62

-drift, 62, 63

Arbitrary substitutions, 116

Astronomy, 8, 121

Astronomical day, 12

Axioms, 2, 149

truth of, 2

Bachem, 158

Basis of theory, 52

“Being,” 78, 128

$$\beta$$-rays, 59

Biology, 149

Cartesian system of co-ordinates, 7, 100, 147

Cathode rays, 59

Celestial mechanics, 125

Centrifugal force, 94, 156

Chest, 78

Classical mechanics, 9, 13, 16, 20, 36, 52, 84, 121, 123, 150

truth of, 15

Clocks, 11, 28, 95, 96, 112, 114, 117–120, 121, 135, 155

rate of, 156

Conception of mass, 54

position, 6

Conservation of energy, 54, 121

impulse, 121

mass, 54, 56

Continuity, 113

Continuum, 65, 98

Continuum, two-dimensional, 112

three-dimensional, 67

four-dimensional, 106, 108, 109, 112, 147

space-time, 93, 108-114

Euclidean, 99, 101, 104, 110

non-Euclidean, 102, 107

Co-ordinate differences, 109

differentials, 109

planes, 38

Cottingham, 154

Counter-point, 133

Co-variant, 51

Crommelin, 154

Curvature of light-rays, 124, 152

space, 153

Curvilinear motion, 88

Cyanogen bands, 158

Darwinian theory, 149

Davidson, 154

Deductive thought, 148

Derivation of laws, 52

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166 De Sitter, 21

Displacement of spectral lines, 124, 155

Distance (line-interval), 3, 5, 8, 34, 35, 99, 104, 129

physical interpretation of, 5

relativity of, 34

Doppler principle, 59

Double stars, 21

Eclipse of star, 21

Eddington, 124, 154

Electricity, 90

Electrodynamics, 15, 24, 48, 52, 90

Electromagnetic theory, 58

waves, 75

Electron, 52, 60

electrical masses of, 60

Electrostatics, 90

Elliptical space, 133

Empirical laws, 148

Encounter (space-time coincidence), 113

Equivalent, 16

Euclidean geometry, 1, 2, 68, 97, 101, 104, 128, 120, 135, 147

propositions of, 3, 8

space 68, 102, 147

Evershed, 158

Experience, 59, 70

Faraday, 56, 74

FitzGerald, 63

Fixed stars, 12

Fizeau, 46, 58, 61

experiment of, 46

Frequency of atom, 157

Gallilei, 12

transformation, 40, 43, 45, 50, 61

Galileian system of co-ordinates, 13, 15, 17, 54, 93, 108, 116, 119

Gauss, 102, 103, 106

Gaussian co-ordinates, 103, 105, 112, 114–118

General theory of relativity, 69–124, 115

Geometrical ideas, 2, 3

propositions, 1

truth of, 2–4

Gravitation, 75, 82, 92, 121

Gravitational field, 75, 79, 87, 91, 111, 116, 119, 120, 136

potential of, 157

mass, 76, 81, 121

Grebe, 158

Group-density of stars, 126

Helmholtz, 128

Heuristic value of relativity, 50

Induction, 148, 149

Inertia, 77

Inertial mass, 55, 76, 81, 120, 121

Instantaneous photograph (snapshot), 141

Intensity of gravitational field, 127

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Rh Intuition, 148

Ions, 53

Kepler, 152

Kinetic energy, 53, 121

Lattice, 128

Laws of Galilei-Newton, 15

Law of inertia, 12, 71, 72, 170

Laws of Nature, 70, 84, 118

Leverrier, 123, 152

Light-signal, 40, 139, 143

Light-stimulus, 40

Limiting velocity ($$c$$), 43, 44

Lines of force, 126

Lorentz, H. A., 24, 48, 52, 58, 59–63

transformation, 39, 46, 50, 108, 116, 139, 143, 144, 146

(generalised), 144

Mach, E., 86

Magnetic field, 74

Manifold (see Continuum)

Mass of heavenly bodies, 159

Matter, 120

Maxwell, 49, 52, 56-59, 61

fundamental equations, 56, 90

Measurement of length, 101

Measuring-rod, 5, 6, 34, 95, 96, 112, 119, 121, 132, 135, 141

Mercury, 123, 152

orbit of, 123, 152

Michelson, 62–64

Minkowski, 65–68, 108, 147

Morley, 63, 64

Motion, 16, 70

of heavenly bodies, 16, 17, 52, 122, 135

Newcomb, 152

Newton, 12, 86, 122, 126, 150

Newton’s constant of gravitation, 158

law of gravitation, 57, 94, 127, 149

law of motion, 76

Non-Euclidean geometry, 128

Non-Galileian reference-bodies, 117

Non-uniform motion, 72

Optics, 15, 24, 52

Organ-pipe, note of, 17

Parabola, 9, 10

Path-curve, 10

Perihelion of Mercury, 150–152

Physics, 8

of measurement, 7

Place specification, 6

Plane, 1, 128, 129

Poincaré, 128

Point, 1

Point-mass, energy of, 54

Position, 9

Principle of relativity, 15–17, 23, 24, 70

Processes of Nature, 50

Propagation of light, 21, 23, 24, 36, 108, 143

in liquid, 47

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Rh sole living inhabitant of Earth to-day: there are others, though mostly of the same name, whose ancestors would somewhat swell the totals. In mercy to the reader I have ignored them, one man being sufficient for my purpose.

Must not John Smith have had all those ancestors? Certainly. Could all those ancestors of John Smith have existed? Certainly not. Have I not, therefore, as I promised to do, conducted the reader against "a proposition which is at the same time unquestionable and impossible " — a, statement "which must be true, yet can not be true"? According to the best of my belief he is there. And there I leave him. Any gentleman not content to remain there with his face to the wall is at liberty to go over it or through it if he can. Doubtless the world will be delighted to hear him expose the fallacy of my reasoning and the falsehood of my figures. And I shall be pleased myself.

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168 Quasi-Euclidean universe, 136

Quasi-spherical universe, 136

Radiation, 55

Radioactive substances, 59

Reference-body, 5, 7, 8–11, 22, 28, 31, 32, 44, 70

rotating, 94

mollusk, 118-120

Relative position, 3

velocity, 141

Rest, 17

Riemann, 102, 128, 132

Rotation, 95, 147

Schwarzschild, 158

Seconds-clock, 44

Seeliger, 125, 127

Simultaneity, 26, 29-32, 96

relativity of, 31

Size-relations, 107

Solar eclipse, 89, 153, 155

Space, 9, 62, 65, 125

conception of, 24

Space co-ordinates, 66, 96, 118

Space-interval, 36, 67

point, 118

Space, two-dimensional, 128

three-dimensional, 147

Special theory of Relativity, 1–68, 24

Spherical surface, 129

space, 132, 133

St. John, 159

Stellar universe, 126

photographs, 153

Straight line, 1–3, 9, 10, 97, 105, 129

System of co-ordinates, 5, 10, 11

Terrestrial space, 18

Theory, 148

truth of, 149

Three-dimensional, 65

Time, conception of, 24, 61, 125

co-ordinate, 66, 118

in Physics, 26, 117, 146

of an event, 28, 32

interval, 36, 67

Trajectory, 10

“Truth,” 2

Uniform translation, 14, 69

Universe (World), structure of, 128, 135

circumference of, 131

Universe, elliptical, 133, 136

Euclidean, 130, 132

space expanse (radius) of, 137

spherical, 132, 136

Value of 7, 97, 130

Velocity of light, 11, 21, 22, 89, 143

Venus, 152

Weight (heaviness), 77

World, 65, 66, 130, 147

World-point, 147

-radius, 133

-sphere, 130, 131

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, k′tv-nss. s. 1em

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, -k′l-te. a. (91) 1em

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, -kte′. a. 1em

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 passage or two may sufficiently indicate his higher qualities. In the end of the third epistle Pope is discussing the origin of government and the state of nature, and discussing them in such a way as to show conclusively that he does not in the least understand the theories in question or their application. His state of Nature is a sham reproduction of the golden age of poets, made to do duty in a scientific speculation. A flimsy hypothesis learnt from Bolingbroke is not improved when overlaid with Pope's conventional ornamentation. The imaginary history proceeds to relate the growth of superstition, which destroys the primeval innocence; but why or when does not very clearly appear; yet, though the general theory is incoherent, he catches a distinct view of one aspect of the question and expresses a tolerably trite view of the question with singular terseness. Who, he asks,—

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The Tempest, IV. i

Pro. Thou and thy meaner fellows your last service

Did worthily perform; and I must use you

In such another trick. Go bring the rabble,

O'er whom I give thee power, here to this place:

Incite them to quick motion; for I must

Bestow upon the eyes of this young couple

Some vanity of mine art: it is my promise,

And they expect it from me.

Ari. Presently?

Pro. Ay, with a twink.

Ari. 'Before you can say, "Come," and "Go,"

And breathe twice; and cry, "so, so,"

Each one, tripping on his toe,

Will be here with mop and mow.

Do you love me, master? no?'

Pro. Dearly, my delicate Ariel. Do not approach

Till thou dost hear me call.

Ari. Well, I conceive.

Pro. Look, thou be true; do not give dalliance

Too much the rein: the strongest oaths are straw

To the fire i' the blood: be more abstemious,

Or else good night your vow!

Fer. I warrant you, sir;

The white-cold virgin snow upon my heart

Abates the ardour of my liver.

Pro. Well.—

Now come, my Ariel! bring a corollary,

Rather than want a spirit: appear, and pertly,

No tongue! all eyes! be silent.

Iris. Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas

 37 rabble: band [of 'meaner fellows']

41 vanity: illusion

43 twink: twinkling

47 mop: grimace, mock (?)

56 liver: the supposed seat of the passions

57 corollary: surplus

58 pertly: briskly

59 S. d. Enter Iris; cf. n.

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Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005/Division D/Title III

International Military Education and Training

 * For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 541 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, $89,739,000, of which up to $3,000,000 may remain available until expended:

 * Provided, That the civilian personnel for whom military education and training may be provided under this heading may include civilians who are not members of a government whose participation would contribute to improved civil-military relations, civilian control of the military, or respect for human rights;

 * Provided further, That funds appropriated under this heading for military education and training for Guatemala may only be available for expanded international military education and training, and funds made available for Haiti, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Nigeria may only be provided through the regular notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations.

Foreign Military Financing Program (Including Transfer of Funds)

 * For expenses necessary for grants to enable the President to carry out the provisions of section 23 of the Arms Export Control Act, $4,783,500,000:

 * Provided, That of the funds appropriated under this heading, not less than $2,220,000,000 shall be available for grants only for Israel, and not less than $1,300,000,000 shall be made available for grants only to Egypt;

 * Provided further, That the funds appropriated by this paragraph for Israel shall be disbursed within 30 days of the enactment of this Act;

 * Provided further, That to the extent that the Government of Israel requests that funds be used for such purposes, grants made available for Israel by this paragraph shall, as agreed by Israel and the United States, be available for advanced weapons systems, of which not less than $580,000,000 shall be available for the procurement in Israel of defense articles and defense services, including research and development;

 * Provided further, That of the funds appropriated by this paragraph, $206,000,000 should be made available for assistance for Jordan;

 * Provided further, That in addition to the funds appropriated under this heading, up to $150,000,000 for assistance for Pakistan may be derived by transfer from unobligated balances of funds appropriated under the headings "Economic Support Fund" and "Foreign Military Financing Program" in prior appropriations Acts and not otherwise designated in those Acts for a specific country, use, or purpose;

 * Provided further, That of the funds appropriated under this heading, not more than $2,000,000 may be made available for assistance to Uganda and only for non-lethal military equipment if the Secretary of State determines and reports to the Committees on Appropriations that the Government of Uganda has made significant progress in:
 * (1) the protection of human rights, especially preventing acts of torture;
 * (2) the protection of civilians in northern and eastern Uganda; and
 * (3) the professionalization of the Ugandan armed forces;

 * Provided further, That funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this paragraph shall be nonrepayable notwithstanding any requirement in section 23 of the Arms Export Control Act;

 * Provided further, That funds made available under this paragraph shall be obligated upon apportionment in accordance with paragraph (5)(C) of title 31, United States Code, section 1501(a).

 * None of the funds made available under this heading shall be available to finance the procurement of defense articles, defense services, or design and construction services that are not sold by the United States Government under the Arms Export Control Act unless the foreign country proposing to make such procurements has first signed an agreement with the United States Government specifying the conditions under which such procurements may be financed with such funds:

 * Provided, That all country and funding level increases in allocations shall be submitted through the regular notification procedures of section 515 of this Act;

 * Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be available for assistance for Sudan and Guatemala;

 * Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated under this heading may be made available for assistance to Haiti except pursuant to the regular notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations;

 * Provided further, That funds made available under this heading may be used, notwithstanding any other provision of law, for demining, the clearance of unexploded ordnance, and related activities, and may include activities implemented through non-governmental and international organizations;

 * Provided further, That only those countries for which assistance was justified for the "Foreign Military Sales Financing Program" in the fiscal year 1989 congressional presentation for security assistance programs may utilize funds made available under this heading for procurement of defense articles, defense services or design and construction services that are not sold by the United States Government under the Arms Export Control Act;

 * Provided further, That funds appropriated under this heading shall be expended at the minimum rate necessary to make timely payment for defense articles and services;

 * Provided further, That not more than $40,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading may be obligated for necessary expenses, including the purchase of passenger motor vehicles for replacement only for use outside of the United States, for the general costs of administering military assistance and sales;

 * Provided further, That not more than $367,000,000 of funds realized pursuant to section 21(e)(1)(A) of the Arms Export Control Act may be obligated for expenses incurred by the Department of Defense during fiscal year 2005 pursuant to section 43(b) of the Arms Export Control Act, except that this limitation may be exceeded only through the regular notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations;

 * Provided further, That foreign military financing program funds estimated to be outlawed for Egypt during fiscal year 2005 shall be transferred to an interest bearing account for Egypt in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York within 30 days of enactment of this Act.

Peacekeeping Operations

 * For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 551 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, $104,000,000:

 * Provided, That none of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be obligated or expended except as provided through the regular notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations.


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Global Environment Facility

 * For the United States contribution for the Global Environment Facility, $107,500,000 to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development as trustee for the Global Environment Facility, by the Secretary of the Treasury, to remain available until expended.

Contribution to the International Development Association

 * For payment to the International Development Association by the Secretary of the Treasury, $850,000,000, to remain available until expended.

Contribution to the Enterprise for the Americas Multilateral Investment Fund

 * For payment to the Enterprise for the Americas Multilateral Investment Fund by the Secretary of the Treasury, for the United States contribution to the fund, $11,000,000, to remain available until expended.

Contribution to the Asian Development Fund

 * For the United States contribution by the Secretary of the Treasury to the increase in resources of the Asian Development Fund, as authorized by the Asian Development Bank Act, as amended, $100,000,000, to remain available until expended.

Contribution to the African Development Bank

 * For payment to the African Development Bank by the Secretary of the Treasury, $4,100,000, for the United States paid-in share of the increase in capital stock, to remain available until expended.

Limitation on Callable Capital Subscriptions

 * The United States Governor of the African Development Bank ma subscribe without fiscal year limitation for the callable capital portion of the United States share of such capital stock in an amount not to exceed $79,532,933.

Contribution to the African Development Fund

 * For the United States contribution by the Secretary of the Treasury to the increase in resources of the African Development Fund, $106,000,000, to remain available until expended.

Contribution to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

 * For payment to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development by the Secretary of the Treasury, $35,431,111 for the United States share of the paid-in portion of the increase in capital stock, to remain available until expended.

Limitation on Callable Capital Subscriptions

 * The United States Governor of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development may subscribe without fiscal year limitation to the callable capital portion of the United States share of such capital stock in an amount not to exceed $121,996,662.

Contribution to the International Fund for Agricultural Development

 * For the United States contribution by the Secretary of the Treasury to increase the resources of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, $15,000,000, to remain available until expended.

International Organizations and Programs

 * For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 301 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, and of section 2 of the United Nations Environment Program Participation Act of 1973, $328,394,000:

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Vol. I.

I not a scientific man, nor can I lay claim to any special knowledge that would entitle me to be called a "Geographer." I owe the honor of my election as President of the National Geographic Society simply to the fact that I am one of those who desire to further the prosecution of geographic research. I possess only the same general interest in the subject of geography that should be felt by every educated man.

By my election you notify the public that the membership of our Society will not be confined to professional geographers, but will include that large number who, like myself, desire to promote special researches by others, and to diffuse the knowledge so gained, among men, so that we may all know more of the world upon which we live.

By the establishment of this Society we hope to bring together (1) the scattered workers of our country, and (2) the persons who desire to promote their researches. In union there is strength, and through the medium of a national organization, we may hope to promote geographic research in a manner that could not be accomplished by scattered individuals, or by local societies; we may also hope—through the same agency—to diffuse the results of geographic research over a wider area than would otherwise be possible.


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4

The position to which I have been called has compelled me to become a student. Since my election I have been trying to learn the meaning of the word "geography," and something of the history of the science to which it relates. The Greek origin of the word (γη, the earth, and γραφη, description) betrays the source from which we derived the science, and shows that it relates to a description of the earth. But the "earth" known to the Greeks was a very different thing from the earth with which we are acquainted.

To the ancient Greek it meant land—not all land, but only a limited territory, in the centre of which he lived. His earth comprised simply the Persian Empire, Italy, Egypt and the borders of the Black and Mediterranean seas, besides his own country. Beyond these limits, the land extended indefinitely to an unknown distance—till it reached the borders of the great ocean which completely surrounded it.

To the members of this society the word "earth" suggests a very different idea. The term arouses in our minds the conception of an enormous globe suspended in empty space, one side in shadow and the other bathed in the rays of the sun. The outer surface of this globe consists of a uniform, unbroken ocean of air, enclosing another more solid surface (composed partly of land and partly of water), which teems with countless forms of animal and vegetable life. This is the earth of which geography gives us a description.

To the ancients the earth was a flat plain, solid and immovable, and surrounded by water, out of which the sun rose in the east and into which it set in the west. To them "Geography" meant simply a description of the lands with which they were acquainted.

Herodotus, who lived about the year 450 B.   C., transmitted to posterity an account of the world as it was known in his day. We look upon him as the father of geography as well as of history. He visited the known regions of the earth, and described accurately what he saw, thus laying the foundations of comparative geography.

About 300 years B.   C., Alexander the Great penetrated into hitherto unknown regions, conquered India and Russia, and founded the Macedonian Empire. He sent a naval expedition to explore the coasts of India, accompanied by philosophers or learned men, who described the new countries discovered and


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Rh the character of their inhabitants. This voyage may be considered as originating the science of Political Geography, or the geography of man.

About the year 200 B.   C., Eratosthenes of Cyrene, the keeper of the Royal Library at Alexandria, became convinced, from experiments, that the idea of the rotundity of the earth, which had been advanced by some of his predecessors, was correct, and attempted to determine upon correct principles its magnitude. The town of Cyrene, on the river Nile, was situated exactly under the tropic, for he knew that on the day of the summer solstice, the sun's rays illuminated at noon the bottom of a deep well in that city. At Alexandria, however, on the day of the summer solstice, Eratosthenes observed that the vertical finger of a sun-dial cast a shadow at noon, showing that the sun was not there exactly overhead. From the length of the shadow he ascertained the sun's distance from the zenith to be 7°   12', or one-fiftieth part of the circumference of the heavens; from which he calculated that if the world was round the distance between Alexandria and Cyrene should be one-fiftieth part of the circumference of the world. The distance between these cities was 5000 stadia, from which he calculated that the circumference of the world was fifty times this amount, or 250,000 stadia. Unfortunately we are ignorant of the exact length of a stadium, so we have no means of testing the accuracy of his deduction. He was the founder of Mathematical Geography; it became possible through the labors of Eratosthenes to determine the location of places on the surface of the earth by means of lines corresponding to our lines of latitude and longitude.

Claudius Ptolemy, in the second century of the Christian era, made a catalogue of the positions of plans as determined by Eratosthenes and his successors, and with this as his basis, he made a series of twenty-six maps, thus exhibiting, at a glance, in geographical form, the results of the labors of all who preceded him. To him we owe the art of map-making, the origination of Geographic Art.

We thus see that when Rome began to rule the world, the Greeks had made great progress in geography. They already possessed Comparative, Political and Mathematical Geography, and Geographic Art, or the art of making maps.

Then came a pause in the progress of geography.

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62

Of wheat, rye, barley, vetches, oats, and peas;

Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep,

And flat meads thatch'd with stover, them to keep;

Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims,

Which spongy April at thy hest betrims,

To make cold nymphs chaste crowns; and thy broom groves,

Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves,

Being lass-lorn; thy pole-clipt vineyard;

And thy sea-marge, sterile and rocky-hard,

Where thou thyself dost air: the queen o' the sky,

Whose watery arch and messenger am I,

Bids thee leave these; and with her sovereign grace,

Here on this grass-plot, in this very place,

To come and sport; her peacocks fly amain:

Approach, rich Ceres, her to entertain.

Cer. Hail, many-colour'd messenger, that ne'er

Dost disobey the wife of Jupiter;

Who with thy saffron wings upon my flowers

Diffusest honey-drops, refreshing showers:

And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown

My bosky acres, and my unshrubb'd down,

Rich scarf to my proud earth; why hath thy queen

Summon'd me hither, to this short-grass'd green?

Iris. A contract of true love to celebrate,

And some donation freely to estate

On the bless'd lovers.

Cer. Tell me, heavenly bow,

If Venus or her son, as thou dost know,

 63 stover: fodder

64 pioned and twilled; cf. n.

68 pole-clipt vineyard: one in which the vines cling to poles

71 watery arch: rainbow

74 amain: at full speed

81 bosky: bushy

85 freely: liberally

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 FASHIONS www Preserved Lettuce-Stalks.- Peel large cos lettuce-stalks that have run to seed, cut them in pieces, boil them gently till tender, but not too soft, putting half a dozen whole red-peppers in the water; put them to drain; make a syrup and boil the stalks up in it just once a day for a week; then make a good rich syrup, well-skimmed and boiled, scraping in some best white ginger; pour hot over the stalks; keep in a covered jar. 466

FASHIONS FOR JUNE. FIG. 1.- HOUSE DRESS OF BLACK AND GOLD-COLORED GRENADINE. The trimming is of bias gold-colored satin, studded with jet beads. FIG. II -SUIT OF BLACK VELVET, FOR A LITTLE BOY.- The trousers and jacket are trimmed with black galloon. FIG. III.- HOUSE DRESS OF WHITE ALPACA.-The jacket is of red cashmere, trimmed with Cluny lace. FIG. IV. DRESS FOR THE COUNTRY OF BLUE-AND-WHITE STRIPED FOULARD SILK.-The Garibaldi jacket is of plain blue silk. Straw hat, trimmed with daisies. Fig. v.—Walking DRESS OF GRAY POPLIN.-The petticoat, upper skirt, and jacket, are cut in a saw-tooth pattern, and bound with cherry-colored silk. FIG. VI.-HOUSE DRESS, OR WALKING DRESS, AS PREFERRED. -The skirt is of blue summer poplin, made long, with straps depending from the waist, in which button-holes are made ; on the skirt are buttons to correspond with the button-holes on the straps ; by using these the house dress can be converted into a walking dress without trouble. FIG. VII. THE ABOVE HOUSE DRESS CONVERTED INTO A WALKING DRESS. FIG. VIII- WALKING DRESS OF GREEN FOULARD OVER A GREEN SILK PETTICOAT .-The upper skirt is cut in points, and trimmed with black cord and black jet tassels. FIG. IX.- CARRIAGE DRESS OF BLUE SILK.- The skirt is onethe bottom a ruffle very much gored, and hasThe with ruchis trimmed frontaround quarter of a yard deep. ings of silk and lace. Black silk paletot, embroidered in jet. Small black bonnet, trimmed with blue flowers. GENERAL REMARKS.-No long dresses are now seen on the street; but in the house, and more particularly for evening wear, very long trains are worn. What the short walking dresses lack in style, they make up in convenience. A basque or loose sacque, (which is much the most popular,) like the dress, is considered indispensible. A very stylish walking suit consists of a blue-and-black striped silk skirt over a plain blue silk petticoat, the latter trimmed round the edge with a tress or plait of black velvet. Similar plaits are used to loop up the skirt in festoons. The short, loose jacket is of plain blue silk, to match the petticoat, and opens over a striped black-and-blue waistcoat. The sole ornament to the jacket is a shoulder-knot of black velvet, placed on the left side. EVENING DRESSES OF SILK are made perfectly plain in front and at the sides, and are gathered in at the back in a bunch, instead of the large, flat fold so long worn. WHITE DRESSES, especially tarletan, are trimmed with numerous narrow flounces, some with only five, others ascending as high as the knee. When a very dressy toilet is desired, wreaths of leaves, or pretty small flowers, just above each flounce, is a great addition. SMALL BASQUES are sometimes added to the waists of dresses- not so large as the peplum basques, which were so fashionable last year, but quite small, not over threeeighths of a yard deep, and cut in large points ; these points can be finished with jet tassels ; from some of these basques long-pointed, sash-like pieces depend. We have seen a stylish black grenadine with a Magenta-colored figure in it, the small basque of which was of Magenta-colored satin,

FOR JUNE. trimmed with jet. It was cut in points in front, and trimmed with jet tassels, and from the back three long straps descended nearly to the bottom of the skirt, the center one being the largest. This basque was about three-eighths of a yard in depth, and could be worn or not, as desired. WHITE BODIES are still very much worn- those for evening wear being of tulle, or very fine plaited muslin, and trimmed with ribbons, or worn with corslets of silk. A wide sash either around the waist, or thrown around the skirt about the hips, with a ribbon for the neck, and bands for the hair, should all correspond. MANTILLAS, SACQUES, AND PALETOTS, are cut and trimmed in the greatest variety of styles. The old-fashioned mantle a la vieille, under the name of the Maintenon mantle, is once more coming into vogue. It is round at the back, and has long, square ends in front, which are trimmed either with a pinked out frill of silk or with lace ; and if a hood is added, it is invariably of lace. Very loose sacques, half tight-fitting basques and paletots, and small " Cardinal Capes," are all worn. Narrow sleeves are, up to the present time, more general than wide ones ; but it is more than probable that ere the summer is over, the closefitting sleeve will have been completely superseded by the flowing and more graceful, though less consistent Polish sleeve. THE BONNETS, this season, are less attractive than usual. They are very small, and generally very unbecoming. The prettiest are of the Fanchon shape, which are much more graceful than the Marie Antoinette, with the large, round crown. The Fanchons are more like a pocket-handkerchief cut in two, the point being on the forehead, and the long, or bias part crossing just over the water-fall. MOST OF THE VEILS, even those of real lace of the greatest price, are embroidered with white or black beads. COLLARS are still made very small; they have square or rounded lappets in front. NO BALL TOILET is considered complete without a necklace. These are made of crystal beads of all colors, with long pendant ornaments. The most elegant ladies leave their real diamonds in their casket to wear these ornaments of cut glass-such are the caprices ofFashion! We very much prefer to all this showy tinsel the jewels of flowers, so fresh-looking, so perfectly imitated from nature, which were also very much the fashion last winter. A PARURE, formed of dewberries, composed of tiny oval pearl beads, with golden-brown tinted foliage, and mounted upon ribbons of bright crimson velvet, appeared to us in very good taste. All kinds of small fruit and berries are also arranged in bandelets for the hair, necklaces, and bracelets, upon velvet or moire ribbons.

CHILDREN'S FASHIONS. FIG. 1.-FANCY PEASANT DRESS, FOR A LITTLE GIRL.- The lower skirt is of crimson cashmere, trimmed with two rows of black braid, the upper skirt blue chintz. White lawn apron and cap, trimmed with black velvet and lace. FIG. II.- DRESS FOR A LITTLE GIRL.- The plain under dress is of blue silk ; it has a high waist and long, close sleeves. The tunic dress is of gray-and-black striped silk, and is trimmed with black velvet. The tunic dress can be used over any colored dress at pleasure. FIG. III.- POLISH DRESS FOR A BOY.- The trousers and jacket are of brown cloth, the latter being trimmed with imitation fur. GENERAL REMARKS.- There is really nothing to chronicle with regard to the make of children's dresses. The cut and trimming of boys' clothes has undergone no alteration ; and little girls are exact copies of their mamma's, except that hats are substituted for bonnets, though many children wear bonnets also.

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465 ww CAKES. Little Short-Cakes.-Rub into one pound of dried flour Rice Cake with Butter.-Take four ounces of butter, eight four ounces of butter, four of white powder sugar, one egg, into a paste. ounces of sifted sugar, five eggs, four ounces of flour, and and a spoonful or two of thin cream, to makecaraways into four ounces of ground rice. Put the butter to melt into a When mixed put currants into one-half, and small saucepan, the flour, rice, and sugar in a basin, to the rest ; cut them, and bake on tins. French Rolls - Rub an ounce of butter into a pound of which add one whole egg, and the yolks of the remaining four, reserving the whites to be whisked. Mix the con- flour; mix one egg, beaten, a little yeast, that is not bitter, tents of the basin well with a spoon for two or three and as much milk as will make a dough of a middling minutes, then beat the whites to a strong froth, and pro- stiffness. Beat it well, but do not knead ; let it rise, and ceed to mix them with the butter, add a small quantity of bake on tins. Cup-Cakes.- Mix together five cups of flour, three cups the whites at first until it becomes smoothly united. The remainder of the whites should then be added, and gently of sugar, one cup of butter, one cup of milk, three eggs, beaten, one wineglass of wine, one of brandy, and a though thoroughly mixed. Bake in a papered tin, in a well moderately-heated oven. Four or six ounces of currants little cinnamon. Gingerbread.-Mix together three pounds and a half of may be mixed with the batter previous to adding the flour, three-quarters of a pound of butter, one pound of whites, if desired. sugar, one pint of molasses, quarter of a pound of ginger, A Good Pound-Cake.- Beat one pound of butter to a and some ground orange-peel. cream, and mix with it the whites and yolks of eight eggs, PRESERVES. beaten apart. Have ready warm by the fire a pound of flour, and the same of sifted sugar; mix them, and a few To Preserve Oranges.-Score or rasp your oranges very cloves, a little nutmeg, and cinnamon in fine powder, to- thin, cut a hole at the top and take out all the seeds. Put gether; then, by degrees, work the dry ingredients into the the fruit in cold water, and let it remain there twenty-four butter and eggs. When well beaten, add a glass of wine hours. Then boil the oranges till they are tender, four or and some caraways ; it must be beaten a full hour. Butter five hours is generally enough ; change the water two or a pan, and bake it a full hour in a quick oven. The above three times. Again lay them in cold water for a day, then proportions, leaving out four ounces of the butter and the put them on a coarse cloth, with the holes downward, to same of sugar, make a less luscious cake, and to most drain. For every orange take one pound of fine loaf-sugar tastes a more pleasant one. and half a pint of water; boil these to a syrup, and when Queen-Cakes.-Mix a pound of dried flour, the same of clear put in the oranges and boil them a quarter of an sifted sugar, and of washed clean currants. Wash a pound hour. Let them stand in the syrup twenty-four hours, of butter in rose-water, beat it well, then mix with it then boil them in it again for another quarter of an hour. eight eggs, yolks and whites beaten separately, and put in Now take the oranges out of the syrup, and add to it the the dry ingredients by degrees ; beat the whole an hour ; juice of as many lemons as there are oranges, and let it butter little tins, teacups, or saucers, and bake the batter boil for a few minutes. Put the oranges into separate jars, in, filling only half. Sift a little fine sugar over, just as cover them with the syrup; when quite cold, put brandy papers on the jars and tie them down close. you put it into the oven. To Preserve Fruit for Years.- Fill wide-mouthed bottles A Superior Soda-Cake.-One pound and a half of flour, three-quarters of a pound of butter, one-quarter of a pound quite full of gooseberries, or currants, or plums of any of loaf-sugar, (not broken,) five eggs, one nutmeg, one sort. Cover the mouths with paper tied lightly on, and pound of currants, a little lemon-peel cut small, cold milk pierced with holes. Put them to stand in a hopper of cold enough to mix into a stiff batter, one teaspoonful of soda water, (the necks of the bottles to be quite out of the mixed with a drop of water, so that it will mix with the water,) there to remain for one-quarter of an hour after other ingredients, put in just before the cake is put in the water boils. Then take them out and let them stay the oven. Butter the pan. till they are quite cold ; after which tie them down as Tea-Cakes.-Rub fine four ounces of butter into eight tight as possible with a bladder, and keep them in a cellar, ounces of flour, mix eight ounces of currants and six or in a cool, dry closet, upon their heads. If, on the bottles ounces of fine sugar, two yolks and one white of eggs, and becoming cold, they are tightly corked, and then well a spoonful of brandy; roll the paste the thickness of an covered with resin to the neck, it will do quite as well as Oliver biscuit, and cut with a wineglass. You may beat the bladder-always standing on their heads. Done in the other white, and wash over them, and either dust sugar this way, the fruit preserves its flavor perfectly. or not, as preferred. Red Currant-Jelly.- Having placed the currants in a Almond-Cakes. Take two ounces of bitter and one poundstone-jar, let it stand in a saucepan of boiling water, and ofsweet-almonds ; blanch and beat them with a little rose- keep it over the fire until all the juice is drawn from the water and the white of one egg; add half a pound of loaf- fruit. Turn it into a very fine sieve, and let the juice drain sugar, eight yolks and three whites of eggs, the juice of through ; but be careful not to press the fruit, as this will half a lemon, and the rind grated. Mix the whole well prevent the jelly being clear. It may, in addition, be together, and bake it either in one large pan or several passed through a jelly-bag of fine flannel ; but if allowed small ones. to drain for a long time, the sieve will be found sufficient. Lemon-Puffs.- Bruise a pound of double-refined sugar, A pint of white currant-juice to three of red, gives a beauand sift it through a fine sieve. Put it into a bowl, with tiful color to the jelly. One pound of fine loaf-sugar the juice of two lemons, and mix them together. Beat the should be used for every pound of fruit, and the sugar and white of an egg to a very high froth, put it into your bowl, juice should boil together for about half an hour or forty add three eggs, with two rinds of lemon grated. Mix it minutes, great care being taken to remove the scum as it well up, and throw sugar papers ; drop on the puffs in rises while boiling. small drops, and bake them in a moderately-heated oven. To Keep Red-Currants for Tarts.-To every pound of curRich Buns.- Mix one pound and a half of dried flour rants, picked from the stalks, put half a pound of broken with half a pound of sugar; melt a pound and two ounces or crushed lump-sugar ; set them on the fire to just boil of butter in a little warm water; add six spoonfuls of up. When cold put them in wide-mouthed bottles, pourrose-water, knead the above into a light dough, with half ing a little sweet olive-oil on the top. Put no corks in the a pint of yeast ; then mix five ounces of caraway comfits bottles, but cover the mouths with bladder, and tie leadin, and put some on them. paper over that. Keep them in a cool, dry place.

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about to boil it is ready to serve. This is a very nice spring or early summer-soup, and to the careful housewife, who studies the important subject of stock, not at all expensive. Coloring for Soups.-As soups often require coloring, prepare " browning" for that purpose as follows :-Take a couple of onions and bake them; remove the outer skin and put them into your soup ; it will brown and give it a good flavor. The shells of green peas dried in the oven brown, but not black, equally well answer to brown soup, and will keep the whole winter well in a bag hung up in a dry place. It will be found much better to use either of the above to brown soup, in place of the caromel, or brown sugar, used by many cooks, for if too much is added it gives a sweet taste to the soup. These are apparently trifles, but most necessary to attend to.

FISH. Salmon-to Boil.-Scale and clean your fish, taking care that no blood is left inside, lay it in a fish-kettle with sufficient cold water to cover it ; throw in salt in proportion to the quantity of water which the size of the fish may require ; but be sure not to use vinegar in dressing either salmon or trout- it destroys both color and flavor. Let the kettle quickly boil, then take off the scum, and let the fish simmer gently till done. Eight minutes to each pound of large, thick salmon, and six to thin fish, is the general time allotted; but experience only can teach the precise moment when it is fully cooked, which is, when the meat separates easily from the bone. Of the two evils, it had better be over than underdone, since underdressed salmon is particularly indigestible, and, to some delicate stomachs, almost poisonous in its deleterious effects. If, when the fish is thoroughly done, any delay should occur, do not on any account allow it to remain in the kettle ; by such treatment it will become watery, insipid, and colorless. Drain it, and while waiting for the table, keep it hot by means of warm cloths. Serve on a hot napkin, garnished with lemon, or parsley, or fennel ; but to the last-mentioned article many people have a thorough aversion. Send up with it plain melted butter, and a bottle of any good fishsance, or lobster, or shrimp, or anchovy-sauce, as it is preferred. Many people never eat salmon without a cut lemon on the table, they consider a sprinkle of the squeezed juice greatly to improve the flavor; but real lovers of fish generally care more for the pure flavor of the salmon itself, with only a little plain melted butter. Cucumbers, when in season, thinly sliced, are seen on most tables, as an appropriate accompaniment to boiled salmon. In choosing your fish, feel with the finger and thumb if the belly be firm and thick, red gills are by no means an infallible sign of freshness. Pickling Salmon.-Take a fine salmon, split down the back, and cut into square pieces ; put into an unglazed pan a layer of salmon and a thin layer of salt, alternately, until the pan is nearly filled ; fill up with vinegar, tie it down closely with brown paper, put the pan into a saucepan of boiling water up to its rim, let it boil for twenty minutes, and in three days it is ready for use. DESSERTS. Bombay-Pudding.-This Indian pudding is a very nice, delicately-flavored one, and is well suited for an invalid, being extremely nourishing. To a good, sweet egg-custard add a little butter, some grated nutmeg, and a glass of wine or brandy; have ready a finely rasped cocoa-nut, and mix all well together. Having lined a dish with puff-paste, pour in the custard, and bake it a light brown color. Pommes au Sirop.-Prepare as many apples as are required, stew them, and dish them up in syrup, with a piece of currant-jelly on the top of each apple. Stewed pears, also pippins, stewed with sugar, and flavored with lemonjuice, are useful and economical sweet dishes.

Cream-Pudding.- Boil a quart of cream, with a blade of mace and half a nutmeg, grated; let it cool, and beat up eight eggs and three whites ; strain them well, and mix a spoonful of flour into them, also a quarter of a pound of almonds, blanched and beaten fine, with a spoonful of orange-flower or rose-water ; then, by degrees, mix in the cream and beat all well together; take a thick cloth, wet it and flour it well, pour in the mixture, tie it close, and boil half an hour; let the water boil fast ; when it is done, turn it into the dish, pour melted butter over, with a little sack, and throw fine sugar all över. Sally Lunn Pudding -Cut out a piece from the under side ofthe cake so as not to injure the upper crust, replace it, and let the cake soak for three hours in boiling milk in a basin that will just hold it. Mix one egg, well beaten, with a glass of wine and a little spice and sugar. Having removed the piece of cake previously cut, stir in these ingredients, still being careful not to break the crust ; replace the piece, put some butter on the basin, fill it up with bread-crumbs, and boil three-quarters of an hour. Orange-Custards.-Boil till tender half the rind of a Seville orange ; beat it fine in a mortar, put to it a spoonful ofbrandy, the juice of a Seville orange, four ounces of loafsugar, and the yolks of four eggs ; beat all well together for ten minutes ; pour in a pint of boiling cream by degrees ; keep beating till cold, then put them in cups, and place them in an earthen dish of hot water till set, stick preserved orange on the top, and serve either hot or cold. Cocoa-Nut Pudding.- Break the cocoa-nut and save the milk; peel off the brown skin, and grate the cocoa-nut very fine. Take the same weight of cocoa-nut, fine white sugar, and butter; rub the butter and sugar to a cream, and add five eggs, well beaten, one cup of cream, the milk of the cocoa-nut, and a little grated lemon. Line a dish with rich paste ; put in the pudding, and bake it one hour. Cover the rim with paper, if necessary. Solid Custard.-One ounce of isinglass, two pints of new milk, one dozen of bitter-almonds, pounded, the yolks of four eggs, sugar to taste. Dissolve the isinglass in the milk, add the pounded almonds, put the mixture on the fire, and let it boil a few minutes. Pour it through a sieve, then add the yolks of the eggs, well beaten; sweeten to your taste. Put it on the fire until it thickens, stir it till nearly cold, and put it into a mould. Gateau de Pommes.-Boil one pound and a half of lump sugar in a pint of water until it becomes sugar again, then add two pounds of apples, pared and cored, the peel, and a little ofthe juice of two small lemons; boil this until quite stiff, and put it into a mould. When cold, it should be turned out, and before being sent to table should have custard or cream poured round it. This gateau will keep for several months. Cream-Pudding.- Beatup four eggs a little ; strain them ; add a teacup of fine white sugar, the rind and juice of a lemon, and a pint of cream. Line a pudding-dish with puffpaste ; put in the above. Bake half an hour. Sago Jelly - Boil a teacupful of sago in three pints and a half of water till quite done ; when cold, add half a pint of raspberry syrup. Pour into a shape which has been rinsed in cold water, and when served pour a little cream round. Snow-Cream.- Put to a quart of cream the whites of three eggs, well beaten, four spoonfuls of sweet wine, sugar to taste, and a bit of lemon-peel ; whip it to a froth, remove the peel, and serve in a dish. Caledonian-Cream.- The whites of two eggs, two spoonfuls of loaf-sugar, two of raspberry-jam, two of currantjelly ; all to be beaten together with a silver spoon till so thick that the spoon will stand upright in it. Indian Corn Blancmange.-Stir one tablespoonful of corn gradually into one quart ofboiling milk ; pour into a mould, turn out when cold.

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PARLOR AMUSEMENTS. " RUSSIAN SCANDAL" is the name of a new parlor, evening game. It is played as follows : Somebody writes down on paper a very short account of something that has, or is supposed to have taken place. The paper is folded up and put aside. The writer then leaves the room, taking with him one of the party. When the scribe is a young gentleman, it frequently happens that the one selected to go out is a young lady. We shall call the writer A, and the person who left the room with him B. A tells B, to the best of his belief, the story as he wrote it down, then he comes in again, leaving B outside. Some one else, called C, then goes out, and B gives her (or his) version of the story to C, leaving C behind. D then hears C's version, and in like manner passes it on to E, till, perhaps, a dozen or more have been alternately auditors and informants. The last recipient comes back, and once more writes down the story after it has percolated through these various strata of confusion, forgetfulness, imagination, flurry, stupidity, and other every-day virtues. Then the original document is opened, and the two papers read aloud to a breathless audience, as identical accounts of the same occurrence.

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OUR NEW COOK- BOOK. Every receipt in this Cook-Book has been tested by a practical housekeeper. SOUPS. Green Pea-Soup.-A peck of peas will make a tureen of very good soup. In shelling them, put the old ones in one basin, and the young ones in another, and keep out a pint of them, and boil them separately to put into your soup when it is finished. Put a saucepan on the fire with a Stick. little water; when it boils, put the peas in, with a little salt, and let them boil till they are done enough, i. e., from twenty to thirty minutes, according to their age and size. Then drain them in a colander, and put them into a clean gallon stewpan, add three quarts of plain veal or mutton(9) broth, (drawn from meat, without any spices or herbs, etc, which would overpower the flavor of the soup ;) cover the stewpan close, and set it over a slow fire to stew gently (9) for an hour; add a teacupful of bread-crumbs, and then rub it through a tamis into another stewpan; stir it with a wooden spoon, and, if it is too thick, add a little more (2) broth; have ready boiled, as for eating, a pint of young peas, and put them into the soup. Season with a little 1 salt and sugar. Some cooks, while this soup is going on, slice a couple of cucumbers, (as you would for eating,) take (8) out the seeds, lay them on a cloth to drain, and then flour them, and fry them a light brown in a little butter; put them into the soup the last thing before it goes to table. Stick. Asparagus-Soup.-Make a good stock of three quarts of liquor, in which a leg of mutton, or beef, not oversalted, has been boiled, to which add a few beef-bones, and any Te game played on this plan by four good players aver- pieces of cold meat, from which all fat and skin has been 3 three-quarters of an hour, which is quite long enough. removed-the remains of a cold tongue form a most charmThis plan, too, has an advantage where the ground is ing addition to your stock, as do also fowl-bones. Then small, and especially where it is short, as the length of break off all the tender part of a bundle of green asparagus, six strings (see explanation of setting out the hoops on the take half a peck of fresh-gathered spinach, a large handful of parsley, the same of spring onions, and, having well preceding page) suffices in the place of ten. For six balls a capital game may be played with only washed them in two waters, drain, and proceed to boil four hoops, hoops 2 and 3 (see last diagram) being taken them in more than a quart of water, with a little salt, and out, and a hoop placed half-way between them; the same a tiny bit of butter. When the asparagus is done, strain with hoops 6 and 7 ; so that the four hoops correspond to off this liquor till wanted, bruise the asparagus well, add the four corners of a diamond. And, where time presses, it to the liquor, and pass all through a hair-sieve. Pour it or where others are waiting to play, this plan is well into a soup-pot, and add your cold stock, from which all adapted for four balls, the game lasting about half an hour. fat has, of course, been removed; season with salt, white Having thus, so to speak, cleared the way for the laws pepper. or Cayenne, according to taste ; mix a small quanpropounded by this English committee, we shall proceed, { tity of flour, and a spoonful of white sugar, into a smooth paste, add it to the soup, stir well till quite hot. When in our next number, to give those laws in full.

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THE FLORENCE SEWING-MACHINE gains every day in popularity. We are continually told that it is the best of all the sewing-machines. 2 (ST) THE GAME OF CROQUET.— NO. I. GENERAL LAWS OF THE GAME.-The game of Croquet has become so fashionable, and yet it is played so differently in different places, that last summer, at the suggestion of several persons in England, a committee of players was appointed to draw up rules for it. These rules have been published, and as thousands of our readers play Croquet, we have thought it would be useful to reprint them here. But first we must make some observations on the general laws of the game. The best number of players for general purposes is four, two playing against two ; and for matches, six. The game of eight unquestionably takes too long to play. Even a game of six, with good players, occupies the best part of an afternoon. Where there is only one ground, and more than four desire to play, it is a good plan to divide the candidates into two sets, one set commencing at the starting and winning-stick, the other at the turning stick, so that what is the starting stick to one party, is the turning stick to the other. The two games go on simultaneously : the two sets of players interfere scarcely at all with each other. Occasionally a ball, belonging to the other game, lies in the way of a stroke, when it must be taken up while the stroke is made ; or the striker in one game has, perhaps, to wait a moment, while the striker in the other game makes his stroke. But this does not happen often ; and the slight inconvenience resulting from it is far outweighed by the increased excitement attending the shorter game. As regards the ground, it often happens the best that can be obtained is small, inconvenient, and anything but level. In such cases, all that can be done is to make the best ofa bad job. But where space can be got, and money is "no object," the ground should be level, and of well mown and well rolled grass, not less than thirty yards, nor, for general purposes, more than a hundred yards long, and from twenty to sixty yards wide. This proportion of { five to three between length and breadth is the one most approved. The ground should have its boundaries well defined before the play begins.

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PAYING ENGLISH AUTHORS.- It is often said that American publishers reprint English books without paying a cent to their authors. This, however, is not always so. We happen to know, for example, that T. B. Peterson & Brothers, uniting with Harper & Brothers, have paid Mr. Dickens a thousand pounds each for the advanced sheets of "The Mutual Friend," " Great Expectations," " A Tale of Two Cities," and " Little Dorrit ;" or four thousand pounds for the four. Moreover, when "The Mutual Friend" was paid for, gold was over two hundred ; so that that one novel cost the American publishers nearly twelve thousand dollars in greenbacks. Harper & Brothers used the novel in one of their serials. T. B. Peterson & Brothers reprinted it in book form. These are really the only firms in America that have any equitable right to be considered the author's publishers.

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A Tale of Two Cities. By Charles Dickens. 1 vol., 8 vo. Philada: T. B. Peterson & Brothers.- Another volume of the popular " Author's Edition of Dickens." The illustrations are very numerous, and very good also. We consider this fiction the most dramatic that Dickens has yet written, or is, indeed, likely to write. As a vivid picture of the stormy times of the first French Revolution, the novel surpasses Theirs, and is equaled only by Carlyle. It has, therefore, a merit above that ofordinary romances. Price, in cloth, $1.25 ; in paper covers, $1.00. The Rector's Wife. By the author of the " Queen of the County." 1 vol., 12 mo. Philada : T. B. Peterson & Brothers.The "Queen of the County" was one of the pleasantest novels of its kind we ever read. The present story, by the same author, is nearly, if not quite, as good ; and very much better than " Lords and Ladies," another tale from the same pen. We believe this edition is reprinted from advanced sheets Price, in cloth, $2.00. David Copperfield. By Charles Dickens. 1 vol., 16 mo. Boston: Ticknor & Fields.- The third of the series of "The Diamond Edition of Dickens." The illustrations continue to be the drawback to the success of this enterprise : they give American faces and figures, not English ones-a very serious defect. The type, as we said before, is also objectionable; no eyes, but very young ones, ought to read it. Price, in cloth, $1.50.

HOW TO GET MEASURED FOR BOOTS OR SHOES.-If you want a shoe to fit you comfortably, next time you are measured for a pair stand upon a piece of paper, and got the shoemaker to trace with pencil the outline of each foot ; each foot, we say, because two feet are never alike in size and shape, though they belong to the same person. They are more than right and left-they are unlike. Do not suppose that you can be measured for a pair by the most careful measurement of one. Insist on having the outlines as well as the girth and length of each foot taken ; and then, ifthe maker is an honest man, he will send home a pair of Back-Bone; Photographed from The New Scalpel." boots which, with their turned-in . toes, will look unpro- ward York :ByR.EdII. Dixon, M. D. 1 vol., 12 "mo. M. mising when off; but when once on, will prove not only Dewitt.-A series of racy essays, originally written for a the most becoming, but the most comfortable you ever medical journal, but not restricted to medical themes; on wore. the contrary, all conceivable subjects are discussed, from to theology, from quacks to fashionable dresses. NIGHT-CAPS should be dispensed with altogether. By tobacco Price, in cloth, $1.50. shutting out the air and keeping the head at a feverish The Toilers of the Sea. By Victor Hugo. 1 vol., 8 vo. temperature, they relax the skin and induce a tendency for the hair to fall off, which is greatly aggravated if the New York: Harper & Brothers.- A new edition of one of body be in an abnormal condition, either from specific the most remarkable novels which has been published in disease or general neglect of the skin. In the place of this generation. The book is exceedingly well printed, night-caps, ladies, to keep their hair properly confined on thick paper, and is particularly valuable on account of during sleep, should wear a net with meshes sufficiently two engravings from original pictures by Gustave Dore. Price, in cloth, $2.00. large to admit the finger.

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" THE FLOWERS IN THE WOOD" is, we think, an unusually elegant illustration. It is a scene, too, that, at this period of the year, may be observed at almost any picnic. It is hard to tell which is the prettier, the wild flowers that grow in the wood, or the more cultivated ones that are gathering them.

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EDITORIAL CHIT - CHAT. writers from true art will, to the extent of that departure, THE TRUE AND FALSE IN FICTION.-We are so often offered affect their permanent position in literature. They may stories for this Magazine that violate the true principles of be popular now-they will not be so hereafter. fiction, we are so frequently called on to notice novels of FALSE HAIR AS A CAUSE OF DISEASE. The newspapers, the same description, that a word or two on what is true art in literature, and what is not, may be wholesome and lately, have been full of sensation articles as to " Chignons welcome. being a cause of disease." A London physician of emiThe entire " sensational school," then, of which Miss nence, Dr. Tillburry Cox, has just set the matter in its true Baddon is so conspicuous an example, is as false in art as light. In a paper read before the Harveian Society he disit is in morals, and false in art because it is false in morals. cussed the influence of parasites in the production of disOf course, in so speaking, we do not mean to say that eased conditions of the skin. It has been asserted, first, novels should be didactic, and carry a moral on their face; that false hair contains the germs of pediculi, which are for that would be as great an error in another direction. developed by the warmth supplied by the human head; We do not use the word " morals" in the narrow, conven- { secondly, that bodies called " gregarina" exist in false hair, tional sense at all : but in that wider sense, which has been and may become pediculi. The first statement is wholly recognized in all time. Murder and adultery have always incorrect; but the so-called " nits" are nothing but empty been considered crimes. It is as much false art in litera- shells, whence the young pediculi have escaped The ture, therefore, to elevate murderers and adulteresses into female pediculus lays her ova at the part of the hair close heroines, as it is to choose monsters for subjects of the to the scalp; in six days the young are hatched, the empty sculptor's chisel, or the painter's brush. Nor is it true shell is carried forward by the growing hair, and as this is art to enlist the sympathics of the reader on the side of a cut from the head at the distance of from one to two inches, criminal, and then, at the close, compromise with insulted no true ova are brought away with it. The inference is justice by dismissing him to punishment. This is the clear that no false hair ever contains the materials from way in the " Guy Livingstone" school of fiction; and it is which pediculi develope, and where these are present their existence must be accounted for by uncleanliness. The only one degree less vicious in art than the other school. A late writer, in one of the English quarterlies, has second statement is equally untrue : gregarines are only stated the case correctly. " The base of all artístic genius," found in Russian hair, which does not enter the English le says, "is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, market; they have vegetable affinities, and never give rise striking, rejoicing way; of putting a happy world of its to any form of insect. In his large experience of diseased own creation in place of the meaner world of common states, Dr. Fox stated he had never seen them once on the days; of generating around itself an atmosphere with a hair. Lastly, he described a real source of danger as yet novel power of refraction, selecting, transforming, recom- unnoticed by any observer. On some of the light-brown or bining the images it transmits, according to the choice of reddish false hair, of German origin, he had found a species the imaginative intellect. In exercising this power, paint- { of " mildew" fungus, which unquestionably would, if iming and poetry have a choice of subject almost unlimited." planted upon the surface of weak persons, give rise to What is thus said of poetry holds good equally of fiction. "ring-worm," and he produced microscopic evidence, and Sir Walter Scott instinctively acted on this idea. Shaks- instanced cases in which he had apparently seen mischief peare also obeyed the same rule. Whatever he touched he result in this way. Cleanliness is a great preventitive of ennobled. The strongest argument against his having evil, and such hair should be subjected to proper processes written "Timon of Athens" is conceded to be the repulsive- to insure protection against the production of disease. ness of the story. We rise from the perusal of any great While the great majority of the statements that have been master in poetry or fiction with elevated sentiments, with made recently about " Chignons," are wholly untrue and heroic impulses, with longings for what is better and loftier absurd ; there is no doubting the fact that, without proper than common life. Whatever epic or novel does this for precaution, the use of false hair may give rise to certain us is, so far forth, true in art; whatever novel or drama uncomfortable conditions of the part next which it is worn, but that even this source of evil may be remedied. fails to do this, is, to that extent, false. A French critic, Joubert, has said this in different words. Fiction has no business to exist," he writes, " unless it is OUR READERS WILL have noticed that every number of more beautiful than reality. Certainly the monstrosities "Peterson" contains the same amount of printed matter. of fiction may be found in the booksellers' shops ; you buy The present number, for instance, has as many pages as them there for a certain number of days; but they have no the January number had; and each future number will place in literature, because in literature the one aim of contain a similar quantity, at least. This is in striking conart is the beautiful. Once lose sight of that, and you have trast to some of the other ladies' magazines, which swell the more frightful reality." Of course it may be said, in- out very big at the beginning of the year, but in summer deed it is said, that whatever is possible in real life is a collapse frightfully. As the Elberton Gazette says :-" For legitimate subject for fiction. Truth, we are told, is always the same amount of money, ' Peterson' furnishes more inin place. This is something like inviting one's friends to teresting reading matter than any magazine we receive." an entertainment, and then taking them into a dissectingOUR COLORED PATTERN, for this month, is an " Oriental room to study anatomy. An execution is, perhaps, necessary in its way; it is certainly a fact ; but civilized people Tobacco-Pouch," which is to be worked in chain-stitch, in have ceased to make a show of the gallows. Whatever is red. It may, however, be worked in any other color, if morbid is unfit for fiction. We do not deny that some of preferred. This is the only Magazine, remember, that the ablest novelists of the day err more or less against this gives these colored patterns regularly! Some of our cotemcanon. But their practice cannot make wrong right. We poraries publish weak imitations at the beginning of the have fallen on evil times ; false taste creates false taste. year, but seem to dread the expense of continuing them in But such times will not last forever. 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