Home Faibt Tai.es, By Jean Mm r. Editor of the 
Magartn •/' Education, Author of “ The Story of 
a Mouthful of Bread," etc,, etc. Translated by 
Mauv L. Booth, Translator of “Martin's History 
of France," “ Labouisye.’a Fairy Book," etc., etc. 
With En 2 T.»vin«e. [12 mo., pp. 3(M.] New York: 
Harper & Brothers. 
The youth of our country are greatly indebted to 
Miss Booth for amusement and profit. She gave 
them Laboulaye’s Fairy Tales ; and now she takes 
the charming little creations of Jean Mao it from 
their foreign dress, and sends them out in a garb 
which our children can understand, We cannot 
better express onr commendation of the book than 
to endorse what is said In the translator’s preface: 
“The fairies here are good fairies —home fairies — 
each of whom ha? a mission to correct some child¬ 
ish fault, hut who does her work so attractively and 
unobtrusively that the children for whom it is de¬ 
signed never think of rebelling against the moral 
■which it is sought to convey." Steele & Avert. 
Harper's Bazar. A Repository of Fashion, Pleas¬ 
ure aud Instruction, New York: Harper & Bros. 
When the Harpers announced their intention of 
issuing a weekly journal of Fashion, the public had 
a right to expect that the new candidate for favor 
would eclipse all others of the kind. The known 
excellence of all their publications was a pledge of 
this. Five numbers of the Bazar have appeared, aud 
public expectation is in them more than realized. 
Hereafter the Bazar will be the standard in Its sphere. 
It is of the same size and form as Harper’s Weekly, 
and gives au almost endless variety of fashion plates, 
engraved and printed in the best style of the irt. In 
the last number there are fortyJitc- designs for differ¬ 
ent articles ot dress, crochet work, Ac,, beside many 
illustrations of literary matter. The literary depart¬ 
ment is conducted with Ability and good taste, thus 
making tlm paper in all respects mi excellent journal 
for the homo. Any ladies in the country can have 
the first six numbers sent to them free or charge, as 
specimens, by addressing the Publishers, 
author of the Declaration of American Indepen¬ 
dence; “for,” says our artist, “we have not 
during our journeyings seen a more respectable 
and industrious community.” 
Monticello, the home of JEl - feu son, near 
Charlottesville, is located on the crest of a 
mouutain, the view irom which is so quietly 
beautiful that Jefferson called it the “ Heav- 
nt.” 1 It: made this retreat, his resting- present occupant charge visitors twenty ccuts 
er the * a tigti.es of public life. The for admission to the premises. The people of 
is fast going to decay; portions of it Charlottesville certainly can not be held respon- 
exttemcly dilapidated condition. The | sible for the uiiuous aspect of the home of the 
monsieur, what remuneration do you desire ? 
Fix the fee yourself.” “ Five thousand francs, 
madame." The lady very quietly opened the 
pocket-book, which contained ten thousand 
franc notes, counted out live, and politely 
handing them over to Velpau, retired. 
They were truly the “sons of the soil,” aud 
of a soil not robbed of its phosphates, like the 
soil of the old and crowded nations. The civil¬ 
ized Roman trembled at the presence ot the 
gigantic Gaul; but. the descendant of that (i ml 
is so little a giant that he now boasts of his 
stature when he is live feet six ! It, was remarked 
by l’liny that the Romans were rapidly degener¬ 
ating in stature, and that sons were rarely so tall 
as their fathers; but he attributed this degenera¬ 
tion to f lic exhaustion of the vital sap, not know¬ 
ing that a Liebig would come to proclaim the 
exhaustion of precious phosphorus. — Vornhill 
Magazine, 
^acinus ^Enpics 
TALKS WITH OUK BOYS AND GIELS, 
TO AMERICAN DRINKERS. 
BY UNCLE PAUL 
In the present agitation of the liquor ques¬ 
tion, attention is naturally being paid to the 
purity of the article dispensed as well as the 
amount, and the auspices under which it is sold, 
license or prohibition; gnd some facts gathered 
from the trade circulars of respectable dealers 
oder plentiful food for thought to drinkers. 
Fine rye whisky that is fit to improve by age 
needs to be kept from four to twelve years, be¬ 
fore it lias attained perfection for the drinker’s 
safety. Now it is a well known fact that, owing 
to the paralysing of business during the war, 
ami the universal Introduction of old whiskies 
throughout the north, east and west, the stock 
of “rye” of great age was almost utterly used 
up. The South lirst sent old whiskies Into 
the northern markets during the war, and as the 
markets were very Boon overstocked, the manu¬ 
facture was suspended. During all of 1805 and 
the iirst three months of 1866, not more than 
three or four thousand barrels in all of really 
line whiskies, lit to receive improvement by 
age, were manufactured in the United States. 
From September, 1862 , to January, 1865, dur¬ 
ing the agitation of the prospective increased 
rates of excise, a vast amount of whisky was 
made, and it was evident that the makers paid 
more attention to the quantity than the quality 
of their wares. Prominent tradesmen In liquor 
now avow that all Lhc fine whisky made prior to 
January, 1865, cannot exceed over six or seven 
thousand barrels in the whole United States, 
and two-thirds of this is probably held in Phila¬ 
delphia. When the tax of 82.00 was put upon 
whisky in 1865, the couutry was Hooded with 
cheap and villainous corn whisky, and lias been 
up to the present time. It is impossible to get 
fine, old whiskies, which are healthy to drink, 
into market, because the speculators got ahead 
in 1865, and have kept the inside track. Such, 
however, is the desire to Obtain a good article, 
that rye whiskies of only six months’ age have 
been sold at an advance of 75 per cent. The 
traders say that rye whisky of 1865 will soon he 
a matter of curiosity. “All the pure whisky in 
America cun he contained in 40,000 barrels,” 
ami that, according to good authority, is a lib¬ 
eral allowance. 
Meantime, the worst, forms of adulterated 
whisky never sold faster and easier. The deal¬ 
ers who own good articles mean to keep them 
at present, as the stock in the laud is so small, 
and they claim that the demand has for many 
years been greater than the supply. And are 
American drinkers to go on absorbing liquids 
which are the combined essence of filth and 
slow poison'? Plainly — yes — for the voice 
which cries out for the seductive destruction is 
powerful .—Springfield Republican. 
HAPPINESS, 
Among the Indians. Kigh A-eara in the Far West: 
1888—1866. ICm bracing Sketches of Montana and 
Salt. Lake. By Henry A Boller. [18 mo., pp. 
4es j Philadelphia: T. Kltwood Zell. 
Here is a pleasant narrative of life among the un¬ 
civilized tribe* inhabiting a part of that region just 
this side the Rocky Mountains. TUo writer'* head¬ 
quarters were long time at Fort Atkinson, then a 
remote station of the American Fur Company, aud 
in the heart of the Indian country. He entera'into 
no disquisition on the character of the red man — 
does not attempt to picture him as either a fiend 
or the noblest of mankind—but tells, in an easy 
style, of his buffalo hunts, his feasts, his “ medi¬ 
cines," &c., and shows him as he really is, The 
last chapter is devoted to the Indian Question, which 
is very sensibly and humanely treated of. For sale 
by Booksellers generally, 
COUGHING UP A KNIFE BLADE 
We thought tlieu — and we’ve been thinking 
about it considerably fcluee — that the boys and 
girls do more trading tiiun they think for. We 
spoke of it to Chart,ie, yesterday. 
“ Why, Uncle Paul,” was the little fellow’s 
answer, “ how do we trade? I haven’t any hor¬ 
ses to swap; and T won’t trade ray knife, though 
Henry Eaton dicl want me to, the other day, 
because you gave it to me; aud I think too much 
of my skates to let them go.” * 
Tt was evident that Charlie did uot quite un¬ 
derstand; he looked puzzled. We suspect that 
all the rest of our young friends will be very 
greatly puzzled also, when we tell them, as wo 
told him, that sve believe they do pretty nearly 
as much trading as their parents do. And they 
will want to know what it is that they trade in. 
Well, it isn’t horses, nor turkeys, nor chickens, 
nor apples, nor knives, nor skates. Listen and 
we will tell you what it is. 
There is Johnny Gray, he traded his pleasant 
words and good disposition for wicked oath?, 
aud fretfulness, and naughty ways. Do you 
think he made a good trade? Albert Loring 
was induced by the temptation of grCcu fields 
and a new fishing rod to trade his studious hab¬ 
its for those of a truant and idler; George 
Dean grew a little tired of going to Sunday 
School and traded the hours there for rambles 
oif in the woods; and Herbert Cole exchanged 
his evenings at home for views in theatres, bar¬ 
rooms and saloons. Did they all make good 
trades V Albert grew up au Ignumut, idle man, 
and is now wretchedly poor and shiftless; 
producing an appearance resembling a cross, by George became a drunken, worthless youth, and 
which they might recognize and render each was sent to the penitentiary for stealing; and 
other assistance. | Albert was nearly killed, finally, in a quarrel 
8 peaklng of the universality of French fush- | which took place in one of the saloons he so 
ions, the author tells the following story : — “It often went to. 
had been the custom to send a doll dressed in j Jennie Day was a good little girl, and had 
the extreme of the mode to St. Petersburg once been taught, to be very careful and neat in every 
ft month, and when the revolution broke out the thing. But she got to thinking, after a while, 
Russian nobility endeavored to have this doll as so many other good girls we fear do, that so 
regarded us neutral, and so to be allowed transit much care and neatness was too much trouble. So 
to the Neva. The republicans, however, refused she lot go her carefulness for a little ease, and 
to entertain the proposition, and yet, in spite of J when she became a woman, and had a home of 
all obstacles, more than one beau of Louis XVi’s her own, every thing about her was fearfully uu- 
Court devoted himself to the service of convey- 1 tidy and dirty. What think you, Girls; did she 
iug the fashionable doll to its destination. Cer- 1 trade wisely ? 
talnly ‘ Martyrs de la mode.’ ” | There are a great many other trades which wd 
have seen boys aud girls make, that we might 
Tiie Beiirilstown IlliDoi dan Tates the follow¬ 
ing remarkable case:—“A remarkable effort of 
nature to relieve the human body of an obstruc¬ 
tion, has occurred in this vicinity, which should 
attract the attention of scientific men. About 
twelve years since, Mr, James Thompson, a 
wealthy farmer of this county, was waylaid by 
ruffians, and in the encounter was stabbed in the 
hack, under the left shoulder blade. He was 
treated by physicians, and iu a short time the 
wound healed over. A few year- since he began 
to cough, and since that time had all the ap¬ 
pearance Of a person under the iufluenee of con¬ 
sumption, to such an extent that Ids friends 
despaired of his recovery. About three weeks 
since, in a violent Ut of coughing, he threw up 
a piece of the knife blade with which he wits 
pierced, about one inch and o-half in length, and 
about half an inch in width. It had passed, 
during that long interval, from Ids hack into his 
stomach, through his lung- and upwards through 
the bronchial tube. A more wonderful freak of 
nature we have never read in the books. Mr. 
Thompson is now doing well, and bids fair to 
live as long as any other man.” 
Lives op the Queens op England, From the Nor¬ 
man Conquest. By Agnes Strickland, Author of 
"Lives of the Queens of Scotland.” Abridged by 
the Author. Revised and Edited by Caroline G. 
Parker. [16 mo., pp. 675.] New York: Harper 
& Brother?. 
This is an abridgment of a work numbering several 
volumes, bearing the eaam general title, and con¬ 
tains everything necessary to render the study of 
Queenly lives pleasing aud instructive. The forty 
biographies given, beginning with Matilda, wife of 
W illiam the Conqueror, and iuciudiug Queen Vic¬ 
toria, comprise a complete domestic history of Eng¬ 
land irom the Norman Conquest to the death of Queen 
Elizabeth, and of Great Britain from the accession 
of James I down to the present time, carefully chro¬ 
nologized. The book is finely gotten up, and is hand¬ 
somely Illustrated with numerous portraits, &c. ’For 
sale by Steele & Avery. 
BEARDS AND FRENCH FASHIONS, 
BIRDS ROOMING TOGETHER 
In the month of May, 1862, Waterton, the 
naturalist, pointed out to a friend three birds’ 
nests within one cavity, viz., the nest of a jack¬ 
daw, with five eggs—that of a barn-owl, with 
three young ones, very near to which (the owl’s 
nest,) were several dead mice and a half-grown 
rat—aud eighteen inches above the nest of the 
owl, in a little recess*was a redstart’s nest, 
containing six eggs, The barn-owl and the jack¬ 
daw must have passed in aud out at the game 
hole, and therefore, in all probability, were on 
neighborly terms. The redstart might have en¬ 
tered and returned by a suifill hole a little higher 
up, and then have descended to its nest; hut, 
at all eveuts, it inhabited the same cavity, all 
three bird? dwelling under the same roof, and, in 
fact, in one room; we must also remember that 
this was a voluntary act on the part of each of 
these birds. 
“ I shall not a»lc Jean Jacques Rousseau 
If birds confabulate or no; 
’Tis clear that they were always able 
To hold discourse —at least in fable.” 
Da. WTlmer’s Love ; Or, a Question of Conscience. 
A novel. By Margaret Lee, Author of “ Arnold’s 
Choice ” [12 mo.—pp. 416.] New York: D. Apple- 
ton & Co. 
A GENUINE love story, told in the first, person singu¬ 
lar. It is intensely interesting, but depends mainly 
for its effect upon a series of stirring incidents. It 
is superficial, merely, aud displays no very great liter¬ 
ary ability. Duplicity is discovered ana munasked; 
a young girl, the victim of bar • guardians, is r'seued 
from their evil designs; unhappiness follow* an ili- 
starred marriage ; the unworthy husband dies, and 
Dr. WTlmer’s love finally makes glad bis iater days. 
Sold by Adams & Ellis. 
Poems or Faith. Hofk and Love. By Phcebe Cary. 
New York: Hurd & Houghton. 
This beautiful volume, numbering 249 pages, will 
please a large class of renders who love poeiry as au 
interpreter d'lh heart’s most common, yet sweetest 
and tenderest emotions. Faith, hope and love are a 
trinity alm/ist sacred — blessing humanity the world 
over—aud whoever sings of them sweetly and grace-' 
fully, a* Mhs C'aBy does, will find very many willing 
listeners. Hhe lias uot the highest girts of poesy, aud 
much of her verse is quite commonplace, but she 
touches the popular sentiment, and frequently with 
pathetic tenderness. Sold by D. M. Dewey. 
PHOSPHORUS AND CIVILIZATION 
Consider for a moment — every adult human 
being requires at least four pounds of phospho¬ 
rus to build up his bony framework, quite apart 
from the quantities used up in his softer part? 
This amount is sequestrated from the earth, and 
never returns to it. Yet the earth, without 
phosphates, refuses to grow plants. Think of 
the millions upon millions of pounds which are 
drawn away from the primitive stock, and you 
will understand why vast stretches of Asia Minor 
are barren, why part? of Sicily, Palestine, Arabia 
Felix (once so fertile,) and the plains of Babylon 
are desert. These lands have beeti robbed of 
their phosphates. If Egypt still retains her 
ancient fertility, it is because the annual inunda¬ 
tion of the Nile renews the phosphates. Did 
the barbarians always conquer because they were 
ignorant? No; but because they were strong. 
A Queer Frsn.— A remarkable amphibious speak of. 
But you may get tired, if we talk 
animal of the seal kind, which was captured at much longer this time. Try aud guess what the 
Gillespie's beach, about 100 miles south of Hok- others aro. Watch your young companions 
itlka. New Zealand, by Mr. Kiiruartin, is now closely, aud see if you do not find them making 
being exhibited iu Melbourne. Iu appearance trades every day, Look at yourselves oceaslon- 
it presents a mixture of the dog and the fish, j lly, too, for Just as like as not you will be doing 
Its head resembles that of au Euglish terrier, J lhc same thing. And if you find that you are 
except that the ears are merely rudimentary, j ask yourselves very seriously if you are making 
The body is like a seal’s, and the animal propels a good trade. When your parents do uny trud- 
itself upon land or in water by means of two ( ing they hope to gain somewhat thereby; see to 
large flippers in the fore part of its body, and it, if you trade at all, that you do not lose 
two Smaller ones behind. Its tail is about t wo anything. 
and a half inches long. The animal shuffles pretty -—- 
quickly upon the ground, and its motion in the Thomas Hood used to say, “I often wish I 
water is produced by rolling over and over, and was two or three children—but I can’t be—and 
propelling Itself forward after the maimer of a wouldn’t l put off my three pairs of shoes and 
screw, it? cry is something like the bark of socks, and go paddling in the sea up to my six 
a dog, but peculiarly shrill. —Melbourne Age. knees!” 
ANECDOTE OF VELPAU 
An anecdote is told of Velpau, the eminent 
French surgeon, who died a few years ago. He 
had successfully performed on a little child live 
years oltl, a perilous operation. The mother 
came to him and said: “ Monsieur, my son is 
saved, and I really know not how to express my 
gratitude; allow me, however, to present you 
with this pocket-book, embroidered by nay own 
hands.” “ Oh ! madame, ” replied Velpau, 
sharply, “ my art is not merely a question of 
feeling. My life has its requirements, like 
yours. Dress, even, which is a luxury for you, 
is necessary for me. Allow me, therefore, to 
refuse your charming little present, in exchange 
for a more substantial remuneration.” “ But, 
Works of Charles Dickens. Globe Edition. Our 
Mutual Friend. Four volumes in one. New York: 
I lurd & Houghton. 1867. 
Tuts is a long story and a good one —told in that 
genial and entertaining way characteristic of this 
voluminous author. This edition of the Mutual 
Friend cannot fail of receiving a hearty welcome 
front tlio public. For sale by D. M. Dewey, 
United States Musical Review. New York: J. 
L. Peters. 
Three numbers of this very large aud well arranged 
journal have appeared. It i? in quarto form, of 32 
pages, finely printed, and contains much interesting 
reading matter, together with several pages of vocal 
and instrumental music. It is worthy an extensive 
circulation. 
