might be saved, were he to compare, analyze and deter- 

 mine wliat has boeii acooniplished as to Trisons, Hospitals, 

 Asylums, and indeed tlio whole ranj^e of our corrective and 

 beneficial institulions. How ranch useful information is 

 even now gained by examining the returns of the Census 

 and of Annual Hills of Mortality. I can only glance at this 

 subject, nor. can I do more, with another and which may be 

 styled a Professorship of Compuraiive Law mid Leginla- 

 tion. Kcform is ou foot, even under absolute governments. 

 One State is borrowing from another. Great efforts are 

 making to simpUfy and condense the laws under which we 

 live." 



The above paragraphs indicate the manner in 

 wliich tlie subject is handled by the Secretary of 

 the Regents of the University of the State of 

 New York. Human elevation is retarded, laws 

 are complicated, crimes and frauds are fostered, 

 and ^popular ignorance perpetuated, bccaitse our 

 highest and our lowest educational advantages 

 are equally contracted, and sadly defective. Our 

 object in bringing this subject so frequently be- 

 fore the readers of the Farmer, is to influence, in 

 some small degree, public opinion. In pointing 

 out how ea?y it is for any agricultural chemist of 

 moderate skill to impose on the farming commu- 

 ni^y any nostrum as an improved artificial manure, 

 as -we have endeavored in a preceding num- 

 ber, our purpose was to show the necessity 

 of a more enlarged and thorough education of 

 agriculturists, not to interfere with the manufac- 

 turers and venders of the superphosphate of lime, 

 or of any manure whatever. With us, princi- 

 ples are every thing — men little or nothing. 

 Men are the creatures of a daj"-, while sound 

 principles and wise public institutions, may last 

 through indefinite ages. To the latter are due 

 our best thoughts, our best efforts ; and the great 

 and the good of the land are contemplating the 

 ways and means to establish throughout its length 

 and breadth, a more efficient system of common 

 school and university education. Unless this is 

 done, as Dr. Beck truly .suggests, it will be im- 

 possible either to detect frauds innumerable, or 

 punish crime. It is even now exceedingly difficult 

 to purchase any pure, unadulterated medicines, 

 aa any good physician knows. To expose impo- 

 sitions of all kinds we regard as the high and 

 sacred duty of every citizen ; and to qualify all 

 honest men to do so effectively, science must be 

 placed within their rcacL 



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Spim!.s' & Sitrexn-k's Pronouncino Dictionaky of the 

 French and English Languages. D. AppLftoN &. Co., 

 200 Broadway, New York. 



■ Spiers' Dictionary is a thoroughly new and 

 original work, elaborated from the latest and 

 most approved sources in English and French, 

 and not a mere reproduction or revision of any 

 preceding French or English Dictionary. A work 

 of the critical and comprehensive character in 

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ments of many of the ablest men in France and 

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 facilitate the study of either language by such as 

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 celebrated pronunciation of Surenne's Pronounc- 

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 of the French language, translated from Guizot 

 and other reliable sources. 



It is needless to urge the great value of the 

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 generally understood that France, with her lono- 

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 and colleges, is in advance of all other nations. 

 In medical science, civil and military engineer- 

 ing, French text books "ought to be studied by 

 every American interested in these departments 

 of knowledge ; and we are happy to know that 

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Langstroth on TnE IIivE AND THE IIonet-Beb ; A Bee- 

 keeper's Manual. By Eev. L. L. Langstroth. Hopkins, 

 Bbidgmaji & Co., Northampton, Mass. 



We have received through Mr. Dakrow, book- 

 seller, of this city, a book of about 400 pages 

 with the above title. We have not yet had time 

 to examine it carefully, but a slight examination 

 has impressed us with the idea that it is a work 

 of careful research, and of great value to the 

 bee-keeper. 



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