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and rar East. Bring a Guide- through Groat 
Britain and Ireland, Franco, Belgium, Holland, 
Germany, Italy, Sicily. Eervpt. Syria, Tur ey, 
Greece, Switzerland, Tyrol. Spain, Russia, Den¬ 
mark and Sweden. By W. 1’E‘jbr >k k Fetbidge. 
With a Railroad Map, corrected up to 1S67. ami a 
■ Map embracing colored route? of rravel in the above 
countries. New York: Harper & Brothers. 
This is the sixth year in which the Hardees have 
issued their most valuable and comprehensive Guide 
and Hand-book. The success of the work is proof of 
its worth. We do not see how travelers abroad can 
dispense with it.^.The information which it gives 
concerning routes of travel, places of interest, stop- 
ping-piaecs, necessary expense?, and everything per¬ 
taining to foreign wanderings, is full as can possibly 
be gleaned, and wo have no doubt is, as is claimed, 
perfectly reliable. It Is a beantifully printed volume 
of 662 pages, with a hundred or more additional, giv¬ 
ing a list of first class hotels in the different countries 
described; and is handsomely bound in flexible moroc¬ 
co covers. Sold by Steele & Avery. 
CHERISH KINDLY FEELINGS, 
BY MRS. M. A. KIDDEU 
CnEuisn kindly feelings, children) 
Nurse them in your heart; 
Don't forget to take them with you, 
When from home yon start; 
In the school •room, in the parlor, 
At yonr work or play. 
Kindly thoughts and kindly feelings, 
Cherish every day. 
Cherish kindly feelings, children, 
Toward the old anil poor, 
For you know they’ve many blighting 
Hardships to endure; 
Try to maki their burdeu lighter, 
Help them in their need. 
By some sweet and kindly feeling, 
Or some gcneroiiB deed. 
Cherish kindly feelings, children, 
While on earth you stay, 
They will scatter light and sunshine 
All along your way ; 
Make the. path of duty brighter, 
Make your trials less, 
And whate’er your lot or station, 
Bring you happiness. 
1. We stand here u - : 
2 The aim and a p 
el in cour - age and will, The cr.use of the right to maintain; W If h Is true and constant, what 
pose which fire ev - cry heart, A-wake in their strength:.:: itheir bright, To a.-e the do - graded, re- 
cv - er may eome.We firm as the rocks will rc-mnin 
lieve the oppressed.And fear-less-ly stand for the right 
J J'.JtJ JiJH j 
Home Ltfe A Journal. Bv Elizabeth M. Sewell: 
Author of “ Atny Herbert,” “ Lanetou Parsonage,” 
“A Glimpse of the World,” etc. New York: D. 
Appleton & Co. 
A STla'-MoTiiKR'g story, told In the first person sin¬ 
gular, iHd singularly well. Its aim is to illustrate a 
few of the fundamental principles of education, and 
there are many valuable hint s concerning the training 
and developiu -of children's minds,scattered through 
the 405 pages. Mrs. Anstiiuther— own mother to 
four little ones, and step-mother to two young girls— 
undertakes educating them herself, and in her own 
way. To do this filly and to the beat purpose, she 
thoroughly studies the disposition of each, and seeks 
to inculcate well-doing as a vital principle rather than 
as an abstract rule. Miss 8swell has noble ideas of 
education, and they should he bronchi to the notice 
of mothers everywhere, for, however much tuay be 
learned outside, the home-teachings will influence 
lives the longest. Sold by Adams & Ellis. 
3. Nor fearing nor doubting shall enter the band, 
pTTr No question of evil report; 
The nations, and people of every land, 
To us ho united in lienrt. 
For the right, Ac. 
4. Then stand here united in courage and will, 
_ The cause of the right to maintain; 
- With hearts true and constant, whatever may come, 
Wc firm as the rocks will remain. 
For the right, Ac, 
[From the Normal /Singer, published by Mason Brothers. 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
THE ELDER BROTHER AUD SISTER. 
Powerful, indeed, is the influence exerted in 
a family by the elder brother. Is ho kind and 
forbearing towards the younger ouea, and faith¬ 
ful in performing the duties assigned him by 
his parentis, the other children ure almost cer¬ 
tain to follow liis example. In time, too, he 
comes to be the one to whom his father explains 
his plans for business, and to him he looks for 
sympathy and help to carry them out; and 
when tills feeling of confidence is mutual it is 
something beautiful to behold. So, too, the 
cider sister, if she be kind and affectionate, as 
she often is, becomes almost a second parent to 
the little ones, and a companion and helper to 
her often over-worked mother. 
Younger children sometimes complain that 
their parents never think they have grown up, 
but continue to treat them as children long 
after their ago entitles them to the considera¬ 
tion shown to grown people; and this charge is 
apt to he true. As a general thing I think the 
elder sister makes the best wife,—the most uu- 
selflsh and amiable. This may be because in 
her station she is obliged to make more self- 
sacrifices than the others, and therefore can do 
it more gracefully when called on to fireside 
over a house of her own. 
Example has a potent influence over the minds 
of the young. The thought of the good, up¬ 
right elder brother will often come with restrain¬ 
ing power to the. younger son, inclined to trans¬ 
gress the laws of right; and the patient elder 
siBter exerts a silent influence over the restive 
younger one. Happy elder ones. If you knew 
your power for good, how you would prize it! 
Elkkorn, Wis., 1807. b. o. d. 
and he constantly kindling conflagrations. One 
gifted in the line ol' wit or humor must he care¬ 
ful, or these will absorb everything else. Intel¬ 
lect, affection and conscience will all ho dissolved 
in it, only to form a worthless amalgam.— Honrs 
at Home. 
THE NUMBER THREE 
When the world was created, we find laud, 
water and sky; sun, moon and stars; Jonah 
was three days in the whale’s belly; our Saviour 
passed three days in the tomb; Fetor denied his 
Saviour thrice. There were three patriarchs— 
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Abraham enter- 
taiued three angels. Samuel was called three 
times. “Simon, Invest tliou me?" was repeat¬ 
ed throe times. Daniel was thrown into a den 
with three lions, for praying three times a day. 
Shadraek, Meshack and Abednego were secured 
from the flames of the furnace. The ten coui- 
maudments wore delivered on the third day. 
Job had three friends. 8t. Paul speaks of faith, 
hope and charity, these three. Those famous 
dreams of the haker and butler were, to come to 
pass In three days. Elijah prostrated hiuisell 
three times on the body of the dead child. Sam¬ 
son deceived Delilah three times before she dis¬ 
covered the source of his strength. The sacred 
letters on the eross are f. TT. S.; “ in hor signofi 
There are three conditions lor man—the earth, 
heaven and hell. There U also the Holy Trinity. 
In mythology, there were three graces; Cerbe¬ 
rus with his three heads; Neptune holding Ids 
three-toothed staff; the oracle of Delphi cher¬ 
ished with veneration the tripod; and the nine 
muses sprang from three. In nature we have 
male, female and offspring; morning, noon and 
night; trees group their leaves in threes; there 
is the three-leaved clover. Every ninth wave is 
ground Bwell. Wc have fish, flesh and fowl. 
The majority of mankind die. at the age of 
thirty-throe. What could he done in mathe¬ 
matic* without. the aid of the tri-uugle? Wit¬ 
ness the power of the wedge; and in logic three 
Xireinises are indispensable. It is a common 
phrase that three;is a lucky number. 
ABOUT HUMOR. 
The Early Years or Hr* Royal Highness, the 
Prince Consort. Compiled under the direction of 
Her Majesty Hie Queen, by Lieut. General the Hon. 
C. Grey. [Ifirno.—pp. 371] New York: Harper & 
Brothers, 
Here Is a revelation of princely life which is fall of 
interest. Queen Victoria shows her woman’s heart 
by giving to the world the early history of her la¬ 
mented husband, and in it we get glimpses of royalty 
at home, with the crown off. We are so apt to im¬ 
agine that Kings and Queens and Prihccs are not of 
the same stuff as common humanity, that the book 
will serve a good purpose. The letters of the Prince, 
and the frequent, extracts from the Queen's private 
journal, show us that human nature is ever much the 
same, even though under the royal garb, and that 
hearts heat as warmly and affectionately beneath 
princely vestments as in the common walks of life. 
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Humor will often dispose best of enthusiastic 
or frantic fancies. lu Dean Swift’s time, a tailor 
near him. took it into hia head that he was divinely 
called to interpret the prophesies, especial ly Rev- | 
elation. One night he received the commission 
to declare the word of the Lord to the Dean, and | 
bright aud early the next morning he was on hiB | 
way to do it. Through his glass door the Dean | 
saw him coming, and surmised his errand. Put 
ting on a grave, studious air, and opening his 
Bible to Rev. x, with fixed attention he awaited 
the prophet’s approach. The door opened, aud , 
in an unearthly voice it was announced: “ Dean 
Swif t, I am sent by the Almighty t.o — ’’ “ Come 
in, my IViend,’’ said the Dean; “I am in groat 
trouble, and no doubt the Lord has sent you to 
help me out of my difficulties." The prophet, 
was cheered by the welcome. He was all cars, 
in more senses than one. “ My friend," said the 
Dean, “ 1 have just been reading Rev. x, and am 
greatly distressed with a difficulty, and you are 
the very man to help me out. Here is an account 
of an angel that came down from heaven, and 
was so large that he placed one foot On the land 
aud the other upon the sea, anil lilted up his 
hands to heaven. Now, my knowledge of math¬ 
ematics has enabled mo to calculate exactly the 
form and size of this angel; but. I am in great 
difficulty, for I wish to ascertain how mnch cloth 
it will take to make him a pair of breeches; anil 
as that is in yonr line of business, 1 have no i 
doubt the Lord has sent you to show me.” The I 
poor tailor was confounded. He felt as if struck 
by an electric shock, lie rushed back to his 
shop; a revulsion of feeling came over him, and 
he was fully satisfied that his calling did not lie 
in the line of prophetic interpretation. 
John Bunyau was not without an element of 
humor, if one is to believe the story of the Qua¬ 
ker who found him in Bedford jail, and told him 
that the Lord had a message for him, which he 
was commissioned to deliver, and on account of 
which he had Bought him out in all the jails of 
the kingdom. “ If the Lord had given you u 
message for mo," said Banyan, “he would have 
known where to send you, for he knows that I 
have been lying these twelve years in Bedford 
jail." 
But humor is an edged tool that must be 
played with carefully. It may cut the fingers 
that are heedless in handling it. Rev. Azel Roe 
was taken prisoner by the British in the Revolu¬ 
tionary war, aud was conducted by his captors 
to New York. They treated him with much 
respect, and as they were about crossing an uu- 
brldged stream, the British officer offered to 
carry him over on his hack. He did so; but 
midway in the stream, the clergyman, amused at 
the plight in which both were, inadvertently let 
his humor out. “Well,” said he, “it must he 
confessed that if you were never priest-ridden 
before, you are so now." The officer was so 
convulsed with laughter that he nearly performed 
the office of a Baptist preacher for his Presby¬ 
terian brother. 
The joke practical does not always end as 
harmlessly as in the case of Nathaniel Appleton, 
who found, on riding up to tile house of his be¬ 
loved, that his rival’s horse was hitched at the 
gate. Unhitching him, aud giviug him a smart 
stroke with his raw-hide, he walked in and in¬ 
quired whose horse that could be cantering 
down the street. It need not he said that he 
found the coast clear at once, aud took good 
pains to keep it so. 
But when humor gets thus beyond words into 
actual deeds aud tricks of mischief, it grows 
wanton aud needs a check. Aud that check it is 
sure to find at last. The humor is canceled or 
neutralized by the mischief. The bee stings as 
well as sings, aud bee-music must he the best 
kind of soprano to keep one unconscious of 
venom rankling in the blood. Happily, humor 
is not commonly given in excess. Like oil for 
putty, it is usually just enough, if rightly used, 
to soften the nature, aud make it pliable. Where 
it abounds, it needs to he kept within careful 
limits. Otherwise the fire that warms will burn, 
SEEING THE SUN AT MIDNIGHT 
In July, 18(15, Hon. J. H. Campbell, United 
States Minister to Norway, with a party of 
American gentlemen, went far enough north to 
see the sun at midnight. It was in (W degrees 
north latitude, and they ascended a ciiff 1,000 
feet high above the Arctic sen. The scene is 
thus described :—“ It was late, hut still sunlight,. 
The Arctic ocean stretched away in silent vast- 
ness at our feet; the sound of its waves scarcely 
reached our airy look-out; away In the north the 
huge old sun swung low along the horizon like 
tiie slow beut of the psndilium in the tall clock 
in our grandfather’s parlor corner. We alL stood 
silent, looking at our watches. When both 
hands came together at. 13, midnight, the full, 
round orb hung triumphantly above the wave— 
a bridge of gold, running due north, spanned 
the waters between us and him. There he shone 
in silent majesty which knew it setting. We 
involuntarily took oft'our hats— ,.o word was 
said. Combine, if you can, the most brilliant, 
suuset and sunrise you ever saw, and its beauties 
will pale before the gorgeous coloring which 
now lit up the ocean, heaven and mountain. Tn 
half an hour the sun had swung up perceptibly 
on its beat, the colors changed to those of morn¬ 
ing, a Iresh breeze rippled over fiord, one song¬ 
ster after another piped up in the grove behind 
us—we had slid into another day." 
Works of Charles Dickens. Globe Edition. Illus¬ 
trated from Designs l>y Darlkv & Gilbert A 
Tale of Two Gil ins; Hurd Times, Four volumes 
in on«. New York: Hurd & Houghton. 
"A Tale ol Two Cities,” the opening one in the 
volume, pf Hides and accompanies llu: French Revo¬ 
lution through ouo of its most intensified periods. 
The action of the piece, part in London and part in 
Paris is carried forward by parries whose several por¬ 
traitures nrr adtnirnhiy Urawn. 
“ Hard Time? ” enables the author to portray char¬ 
acters whose “beings end and aim" is the accumula¬ 
tion of money at the expense of all the finer feelings 
of the heart. Less dramatic than the first story, it is 
nevertheless one ol no common interest. The vol¬ 
ume has all the characteristics of its predecessors in 
the series. 
DO IT WELL 
“There, that’ll do," said Harry, throwing 
down the shoe-brush, “ my hoots don’t look very 
bright. No matter. Who cares?" 
“Whatever is worth doing is worth doiug 
well,” replied a serious hut pleasant voice. 
Harry started and turned round to see who 
spoke, it was his father. Harry blushed. His 
father said,—“Harry, my hoy, your boots look 
wretchedly. Pick up your brush and make them 
shine. When they look as they should, come to 
me in the library.” 
“Yes, iii," replied Harry, pouting, and taking 
up his brush in no very good humor, and brush¬ 
ing the dull boots until they shone uicely. When 
the boots were polished, lie went to his father, 
who said to him,— 
“My son, I want to tell you a short story. I 
once knew a poor boy whose mother taught him 
the proverb, 1 Whatever is worth doing is worth 
doing well.’ That boy went to he a servant in a 
geiiLlonnm’s family. He took pains to do every¬ 
thing well no matter how trivial it seemed. His 
employer was pleased and took trim into his 
shop. He did his work well there. 
When he swept out the shop he did that well. 
When he was sent on an errand, he went quickly, 
and did his errand faithfully. When he was told 
to make out a bill, or to enter an account, he 
did that well. This pleased his employer so, 
that he advanced him from step to step, until he 
became head clerk, then a partner, aud now he 
is a rich man, and anxious that his sou Harry 
should learn to practice the rule which made 
him prosper." 
“ Why, pa, were you a poor boy once?" 
“ Yes, my son, so poor that I had to go into a 
family and black hoots, wait at table, and do 
other little menial services for a living. By do¬ 
ing those things well, I was soon pul, as I have told 
you, to do things deemed more important. Obe¬ 
dience to the proverb, with God’s blessing, 
made me a rich man.” 
Harry never forgot the conversation. When¬ 
ever he felt like slighting a hit of work, he 
thought of it, aud felt, spurred to do hi.? work 
properly. “ Whatever is worth doing is worth do¬ 
ing well cheered him in his daily duties. 
I commend the proverb to every lazyfboy and 
girl. I hope it will make little Annie Careless 
do better sewing, make hotter progress with her 
music lessons, aud take better care.of her room, 
1 hope, too, that Tom That’lido will stir himself, 
and show that lie regards the proverb by doing 
his work so well that there will be no need for the 
complaints which are made about him every day, 
O Tom, Tom, you will never lie worth a shilling 
to yourself or anybody else if yon don’t mend 
your ways by learning to do your work well. 
Do you hear that Tom? Yes. Very well, then, 
do as well as hear. 
Nature and Life Sermons by Robert Collykr, 
Pastorof Unity ('tmxcli, Chicago. Boston; Horace 
B Fuller. 
Here arc sixteen sermon - essays by one of the 
most popular divines of the great western metropolis. 
They are mainly upon common-place subjects, but 
are full of fresh thought, expressed in language re¬ 
markable for its beautiful simplicity. There is noth¬ 
ing dry or stale In them. Through (hem all there 
ruus a closer application of old and yet ever now 
truths to the cvcry-dly life and thought, than we are 
accustomed to find. It is in this that the charm of 
the book consists. For the book lias a charm that 
will win for it a wide circulation among the lovers of 
religious literature. Sold by Adams & Ellis. 
GREAT NATIONAL CURIOSITY, 
The Sentinel, published at Jacksonville, Ore¬ 
gon, of the 13th ult., says“ Several of our 
citizens returned last week from a visit to the 
Great Sunken Lake, situated in Cascade Moun¬ 
tains, about seventy-five miles northeast from 
Jacksonville. This lake rivals the famous valley 
of Sin bad, the sailor. It is thought to average 
3,000 feet down to the water all round; the 
walls, almost perpendicular, running down Into 
the water, and leaving no beach. The depth of 
the water is unknown, and Its surface is smooth 
and uurutlled, as it lies so far below the surface 
of the mountain that the air currents do not af¬ 
fect it. Its length is estimated at twelve miles, 
and its breadth at ten. No living man ever has, 
and probably uever will he able to reach the wa¬ 
ter’s edge. It lies silent, still and mysterious iu 
the bosom of the “ everlasting hills " like a huge 
well, scooped out by the hands of the giant genii 
of the mountains, in unknown ages gone by, aud 
around it the primeval forests watch aad ward 
are keeping. The visiting party fired a rifle sev¬ 
eral times into the water, at an angle of forty- 
live degrees, and were able to note several sec¬ 
onds of time from the report of the gnu until 
the hall struck the water. Such seems incredi¬ 
ble, hut is vouched for by some of our most reli¬ 
able citizens. The lake is certainly a most re¬ 
markable curiosity.” 
Anger.— Never get angry. It does no good. 
Some sins have a Becming compensatiou or 
apology, a present gratification of some sort, 
hut auger has none. A mau feels no better lor 
it. It is really a torment, and when the storm 
of passion has cleared, it loaves one to see that 
he has been a fool in the eyes of others, too. A 
passionate mau adds nothing to the welfare of 
society. He may do sonic good hnt more hurt. 
Heated passions make him a lire-braud, aud it is 
a wonder If he does not, kindle flames of discord 
on every baud. Without much sensibility, and 
often void of reason, he speaks like the piercing 
of n sword, aud his tongue is au arrow shot out, 
and found only “ in the bosom of fools.” Why 
should it he indulged in at all ? 
Alec Fobbes of Howglkn. A Novel. By Georoe 
McDonald, M. A., Ant.hor of Annals of a Quiet 
Neighborhood, etc. New York: Harper & Bros. 
The leading design of tiiis rather miscellaneous 
performance, seems to be to caution the young against 
au indulgence in the nse of intoxicating beverages, 
and to show the way to freedom to those who have 
debased themselves by excess iu the use of them. In 
carrying out this design, in the quaint dialect of the 
Scotch, the prevalent religious dogmas of that people 
receive many sly hits, indicating a disbelief in the 
efficacy of them as a guide to human actions. For 
sale by Steele & Avert. 
Regarding Hats.— The sacred “stove pipe” 
is in danger. It is about to be abolished, super¬ 
seded. The work proceeds by degrees, and 
consists iu gradually lowering the crown and 
widening the brim until it becomes a “low, still' 
sombrero of silk -covered curdboard, with soft 
interior edges." It will be light because it will 
he little. It, will furnish a grateful shade for the 
eyes with its broad brim. It. will he easy of use 
in salutation, because the brim is stiff. We 
could wish it. were less healing for the head than 
the superseded stove pipe, but persons of an 
imaginative turn will readily persuade them¬ 
selves, as hitherto, t hat a hat with a small spoked 
hole in the center of the crown, must necessarily 
be well ventilated. 
The Trapper’s Guide, a Manual of Instructions 
for capturing fur-bearing animals and curing their 
skin?, etc. By S. Newhouse aud other Trappers 
and Sportsmen. Second edition. Edited by J. H. 
Noyes and T. I. Pitt. Published by the Oneida 
Community, Wallingford, Ct. 
The title of this volume pretty clearly describes Its 
character. Besides the technical matter, having di¬ 
rect relcrence to the main object of the volume, it has 
Eeveral narrative aud descriptive pieces of much in¬ 
terest alike to the trapper, sportsman, aud the general 
reader. Its illustrations are quite numerous and of a 
style creditable to the “Community” by which the 
work is published. 
Quarreling. —If anything in the world will 
make a man feel badly, except pinching his fin¬ 
gers in the crack of a door, it is unquestionably 
a quarrel. No man ever fails to think less of 
himself after it than before. It degrades him in 
the eyes of others, and what is worse, blunts his 
sensibilities on the one hand, and increases the 
power of passionate irritability on the other. 
The truth is, the more peaceably and quietly we 
get on, the better for neighbors. In nine cases 
out of ten the better course is, if a man cheats 
you, cease to deal with him; if he is abusive, 
quit his company; and if lie slanders you, take 
care to live so that nobody will believe him. No 
matter who ho is, or how he misuses you, the 
wisest way is to let him alone; for there is noth¬ 
ing better than this cool, cairn and quiet way of 
dealing with the wrongs we meet with. 
Sixth Sense in Man.— In a paper before the 
British Association, Dr. Hughes Bennett an¬ 
nounced that the tendency of modern physi¬ 
ology was to ascribe to matt a sixth sense. If 
there he placed before a man two smali cubes, 
the one of lead and the other of wood, both 
glided so as to look exactly alike, ami both of 
the samt) temperature, not ouo of the five senses 
could tell the man which is lead and which is 
wood. He could tell this only by lifting them ; 
and this sense of weight was likely to be recog 
nized as a sixth sense. 
David Copperfield. Four volumes in one. New 
York: Hurd & Houghton. 
This is one of the series, Globe Edition, illustrated, 
of the works of Charles Dickens, which seem to 
have been quickened into new life within the last 
year. The volume is well printed on good paper, aud 
the story as good as new. Sold by Dewey. 
Roses will Bloom Again. Song or Duet. By A. A. 
Hopkins. Rochester: Joseph P. Shaw. 
This is pronounced unusually beautiful by good 
ballad singers. We know it is very popular here¬ 
abouts. It is published with both piuno and guitar 
accompaniment. 
A man who owes a little cun clear it off itf a 
very little time, and, if he is a prudent man, will; 
whereas, a man who, by long negligence, owes a 
great deal, despairs of ever being able to pay, 
aud therefore never looks into his accounts at 
all.— Chesterfield. 
Alexander Dumas, the elder, returning from 
a day’s sport at the coiuitry-scat of a friend with 
au empty gamc-hag, was asked, “ Well, Dumas, 
what did you kill?” “Time," was the quick 
reply. 
Holmes’ Patriotic Songs. By 8. N. Holmes. 
This is the third edition, enlarged, of Judge 
Holmes’ campaign songs. They are meeting with 
much favor, aud are highly popular. 
