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every district its college and every State its university. Education is 

 universally diflfused, and with it is implanted a taste for reading and study, 

 which promises largely for the future. In literature, science and the arts, 

 we can now point to individuals whose reputation is not limited to this 

 continent alone, but extends throughout the civilized globe. Masters in 

 every department of science are now endeavoring to instill its intricacies 

 into the popular ear. Manuals and hand-books are being extensively 

 published on every side, and their introduction into our schools and 

 seminaries encouraged and promoted. The rudiments of science will 

 thus be inducted into the rising generation. But something more was 

 wanted : adults of both sexes, whose avocations were such as to prevent 

 long and patient study, were left unreached. This vacuum is now filled. 

 To this class Professor Schele de Verb has particularly addressed 

 himself with the most complete success. An intelligent student of nature, 

 he has winged his flight in all her various recesses, and dragged to light 

 the plenteous stores hidden in her secret granaries. To his own researches 

 he adds the cream collected from the labors of his compeers in all the 

 various walks of natural science, and presents the whole to the reader in 

 the most delightful and fascinating style. It may fairly be called the 

 poetry of science, — the reader, entranced, eagerly grasping each succeed- 

 ing sentence of the author, as though it were the most exciting romance. 

 Never before have the secrets of nature been pourtrayed in such vivid 

 colors, and a fresh impetus must hereby be given to their study. We 

 trust that Professor Schele de Verb will continue the pursuit com- 

 menced under such promising auspices, and present us with many more 

 " stray leaves from the book of nature." 



Which the Piight or the Left, is the novel title of a book recently 

 published by Gtarett & Co. of New- York. It is rarely that we notice 

 books emanating from the school of ephemeral twaddle 'yclept novels. 

 But this is not a novel of the ordinary kind. It is a truthful and graphic 

 relation of occurrences which we meet in our every-day intercourse with 

 the business community. The author has with a clever pen painted 

 Christ's Christians in contrast with the unctions ones who assume the 

 garb of Christianity to enhance their value in the estimation of those 

 incapable of discriminating between the genuine and unreal worshipper. 

 We subjoin the opinion of the New- York Express : 



The writer plunges into the actual heart of all the whirling elements 

 of fashionable religion and every-day business life, and, strangely enough, 



