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August Atlantic. "The Use and Limits of Academic Culture," a 

 paper by Professor N. S. Shaler, which shows the manner in 

 ■which Professor Shaler believes the college could be brought into 

 closer touch with the aims of the ordinary student, namely, the 

 gaining of a living, is a noticeable paper of the number. Dr. 

 Holmes ends his instalment of "Over the Teacups" vrith some 

 verses which will have great vogue, entitled "The Broomstick 

 Train, or the Return of the Witches." The Salem witches, he 

 tells us, impatient at their long imprisonment, petitioned to be 

 released; but, when the Evil One allowed them their liberty, they 

 played such mad pranks, that he called them together, and, for 

 punishment, made them pull the electric cars. 

 ' ' Since then on many a car you' 11 see 

 A broomstick plain as plain can be ; 



As for the hag, you can't see her; 



But, hark! you can hear her black cat's purr, 



And now and then, as a train goes by. 



Ton may catch a gleam from her wicked eye." 



— A portrait of the African explorer Capt. Gaetano Casati 

 forms the frontispiece of the May number of the Bulletin of the 

 Italian Geographical Society. Casati reached Cairo early in May, 

 and letters in the Bulletin deal with his journey to the coast with 

 Emin and Stanley. An itinerary of his nine years of travel, says 

 Nature, shows that he left Suakin for Berber and Khartoum in 

 January, 1880. In July of the same year he started in a sailing- 

 boat down the White Nile to Mishra-el-Rek, and thence on foot 

 to Wau, where he met with Gessi at the end of September. He 

 then threaded his way southwards among the feeders of the Bar- 

 el-Gazal to the Kongo basin, and for some time made Tangasi, on 

 the Welle or Makua branch, a centre for exploration. Close by, 

 at Mboro, in June, 1881, he met with Dr. Junker. Finally he 

 made his way to Lado, on the main stream of the White Nile; and 

 there, at the end of March, 1883, he met Emin Pacha for the first 

 time. Thence he walked up the left bank to Wadelai, and con- 



tinued the voyage up the Albert Nyanza by steamboat. If vras 

 not until April 28, 1888, that the meeting between Emin Bey, 

 Casati, and Stanley took place on the plateau above Kavalli to the 

 south-west of the lake. The journey down the Semliki valley, the 

 exploration of Lake Albert Edward, and the return to Zanzibar, 

 are recent history. The remaining papers of the number deal 

 mainly with South America. The most interesting of these is 

 that of Count Orsi di Broglia di Mombello on the sculpture of the 

 primitive inabitants of the Upper Orinoco. Many carvings on the 

 stones of tombs have been discovered among the villages of this 

 district: the sculpture is rough and fantastic, but evidently aims 

 at reproducing certain natural objects. Thus, at the Grotto of 

 Caicara, near the right bank of the Orinoco, many rocks carved 

 in the primitive manner of the slate sketches of school-days, evi- 

 dently exhibit an attempt to figure a tiger that is very common in 

 this district. In neighboring caves were found mummies closely 

 resembling Egyptian ones: this the author regards as further evi- 

 dence of the common origin of the two races, previously suggested 

 by the striking similarity in shape of the skulls of the South 

 American Indians and those found in the tombs of Egypt. 



— The August Magazine cf American History is filled with a 

 pleasing variety of papers. The opening illustrated paper, " His- 

 toric Houses and Revolutionary Letters," by Mr. Robert Ludlow 

 Fowler, contains extracts from hitherto unpublished letters and 

 documents relating to stormy scenes in the most exciting period 

 of our country's annals, with a bright thread of family history — 

 of the ancient Ellisons of colonial New York — running through 

 the animated sketch. The second article, "Glimpses of Log-Cabin 

 Life in Early Ohio," from the pen of Emanuel Spencer, is realistic 

 and picturesque, bringing the log-cabin home to us in earnest, 

 with all its limitations and ambitions. Following this, Clement 

 Ferguson writes of the historic associations of " The Blue and 

 Beautiful Narragansett ; " Richard Selden Harvey recites "The 

 True Story of an Appointment;" the editor contributes an epitome 

 of the career of Major-Gen. Ebenezer Stevens, the subject of the 



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