quiry the importance of a movement, from 
one of them to or upon another'? Even a 
great Dictionary, like Webster's Una¬ 
bridged, will often in a minute decide a dis¬ 
pute or resolve a perplexity which might 
otherwise remain a subject of doubt and 
even controversy for a whole ev ening. Thus 
a few lc-adiug books of reference, often con¬ 
sulted in cases of need, will serve signally 
and rapidly to increase the sum of knowledge 
possessed by a family, in fullness as well as 
accuracy, 
A good Cyclopedia is almost a library in 
itself. Whatever may be the topic of urgent 
interest—Austria, Finance, Coal, Cadiz, Elec¬ 
tricity, the Rocky Mountains, Boodliism, 
Polar Discovery, Gold, Mining, Mesmerism, 
or what you will—the Cyclopedia, duly 
consulted, can hardly fail to shed light upon 
it. As no man was ever so wise as all men 
are—as the immensity of human knowledge 
in our day compels each of us to be special 
in our studies and acquirements, if we would 
really know anything—it becomes more and 
more needful that we should be able to 
avail ourselves readily of the researches and 
acquirements of others; and the Cyclopaedia 
aims to tell m in the fewest words just what 
was known at the date of its issue on every 
topic, from Geology or Astromony down to 
Pickling or Pen-making. A Cyclopaedia, in 
a studying, reading, thinking family, can 
what they did say meant pretty much the 
same thing. Laura Hernshawe was fond 
of riding, she was fond of dancing; she could 
pull an oar in their pleasure-boat on the 
canal almost as well as her brother; she 
could swim, it was said, like a fish ; and she 
was certainly a flirt,—altogether a young 
lady as tar removed from the ideal of the 
Reverend Richard Hallowes as it was 
possible to be; and yet—alas for the weak¬ 
ness of human resolves!—he confessed even 
to himself that thin girl, with her bright eyes 
and her saucy laugh, sent a strange thrill 
through him, which he never felt when en¬ 
gaged in the most serious conversation upon 
parish matters with other young ladies. Yet 
he only admitted tlmt, luid lie been differently 
placed, he should certainly have admired the 
girl very much, and said to himself that as it 
was, the less he saw of her the better. An 
excellent resolution; only somehow or other 
he had a great deal to say to Mr. Hernsbawe 
upon the subject of schools for the children 
of the colliers; and after these interviews, 
what, so natural ns that Mr. IIernshawe 
should ask Ids vector to walk into the draw¬ 
ing-room, and that lie should then sit and 
chat with Mrs. Hernshawe and her daugh¬ 
ter, or sometimes with the latter alone, when 
her mamma was abroad or engaged ? 
With July came Reginald Hernshawe, 
Laura’s only brother, a year older than 
herself, who was being educated at Cam¬ 
bridge ; and the following conversation, 
which occurred after one of the rector’s visits, 
shows that Miss Hernshawe had uo more 
idea of marrying the Reverend Richard 
Hallowes than he au.. rrving her. 
“ It is too bad, Laura, your going on so 
with our little parson.” 
“ Poor little man I" Laura laughed; “ he 
is i rv harmless, Regy.” 
“ He may he harmless, hut I don’t think 
you are; I am sure lie don’t think so either." 
“ My dear Reginald, how am I to help it? 
I don’t run after him; and if he chooses to 
come here, I must be civil, you know.” 
“You are an arrant flirt, Laura; that’s 
what you are. However, I hope you won’t 
do IIallowes any harm; for he is really a 
good little fellow, and 1 hear him very well 
spoken of all through the place. 1 don’t 
think you will though; for when he dined 
here the other day, and you ladies had gone 
up stairs, he was explaining to father what 
his ideal of a country clergyman’s wife was; 
and T can assure you there was hot one single 
point of resemblance to yourself, l expect 
that one of the Stuart girls will be the 
happy woman.” 
Miss Hernshawe tossed her head a little 
contemptuously. 
“ 1 daresay either of them would suit him 
very well. I am sure I don’t care whom he 
marries; all I do know is, it won’t be me. 
No, thank you. When I do many it will be 
some one 1 can look up to." 
“ I understand,” her brother said; “ a quiet 
Hercules, who can ride and shoot, and do 
everything better than anyone else ; if with a 
mystery about him so much the better—eh.” 
Laura tossed her head again, and said, 
“Nonsense!” But the brother had pretty 
accurately sketched her ideal, for all that. 
The brother and sister were very fond of 
getting into a small boat, pulling some miles 
up the canal to where it ran through a thick 
wood, and then they would get out and eat 
the lunch they carried with them. Some¬ 
times they took a friend or two with them ; 
more often they went alone. 
Upon one occasion, as they had just start¬ 
ed, they saw Mr. Hallowes, who was 
coming along the towing-path. After the 
first greetings, Reginald Hernsiiawe asked, 
“ Where are you going, Mr. IIallowes ?” 
“ I was going back to Karslake. I have 
just been down to read to an old woman in 
one of your cottages.” 
“ Than you have nothing particular to do ?” 
“ No: nothing whatever.” 
“ Will you get In, then, and go with us ? 
We have lunch, and are going to Hanger.” 
Mr. IIallowes assented, although an 
inward monitor whispered he had better not. 
“ Will you take my oar, Mr. IIallowes ?” 
“ I should be very happy, Miss Hern¬ 
shawe, but I really know nothing of 
rowing; I never had an oar in my hand in 
my life.” 
Laura Herxshawe's face certainly ex¬ 
pressed a rather contemptuous pity; how¬ 
ever, she only said, 
" Very well, Mr. Hallowes ; you take the 
rudder-strings; Reginald and I will pull: 
—I like it above all tilings.” 
Mr. Hallowes’ steering was little, if at all, 
above his rowing, and the boat under his 
guidence made such sudden and abrupt 
rushes, first to one bank and then to the other, 
that Reginald IIernshawe was obliged to 
request the rector to leave the rudder-strings 
alone, and only to pull them when told to do 
so, and to let them know if anything was in 
their course. Under this arrangement the 
boat again glided quietly upon her way, and 
the Reverend Richard Hallowes gave 
himself up to the pleasure of the moment, 
and, chatting gaily with the brother and 
sister totally forgot the injunction to look 
ahead. From this pleasant forgetfulness he 
imrtramtl 
A FARMER’S LIBRARY. 
Every person should have a Library, 
though poverty may constrain him to be 
content for the present with a small one. 
He cannot afford to be wholly without books; 
yet I would advise no one to run into debt 
for them. I hold that there are few men in 
fair health who cannot each year buy at 
least two or three volumes, though living by 
daily wages and having a Bible only to begin 
with. But wheu I speak - f a farmer’s library, 
I mean such a one as every farmer worth 
§10,000 or over, or even every one who 
owns a decent farm and Is out of debt, ought 
to procure forthwith, it he has it n t already. 
Whoever glances at the titles of the vol¬ 
umes in almost any household will be struck 
by their incongruity. If it had rained books, 
and this family had caught up its share at 
haphazard, they could hardly have been 
more ill-assorted, more heterogeneous. Bi¬ 
ographies, Novels and Poems will generally 
most abound; but chance would seem to 
have ruled their purchase. A million vol¬ 
umes so agglomerated would constitute a 
heap of books, but not a library. 
Let me suppose a thrifty farmer, with a 
wife and three or four children of three to 
fifteen yearn, shall have sold his wheat, < r 
pork, or hops, or butter, or whatever his 
staple product may be, paid his outstanding 
hills, and found a balance in hand of three 
hundred dollars, which he owes no one, and 
may fairly consider his profit on the year’s 
industry. He wants to invest this so Lhat it 
will be a comfort to his and his wife’s declin¬ 
ing years, and a help to his children in the 
outset of their independent career. He is 
too wise to risk it in any of the speculative 
enterprises of the day, which uniformly 
promise so much and generally return noth¬ 
ing at all; he is rather inclined to lend it on 
bond and mortgage, or invest it in some Fed¬ 
eral or State loan. 
Now I insist that the very best use he can 
make of this surplus, whether for the old 
folks or the young, is to invest it in well- 
chosen books, embodying needed informa¬ 
tion, conveyed in attractive terms, so as to 
form a fund of instruction and rational enjoy¬ 
ment alike for parents and children. 
“But what books to you regard as of 
prime necessity ?” 
I would say, Dr. Noah Webster’s great 
Quarto Dictionary, though you may dislike 
Webster and prefer Worcester ; then 
A. J. Johnson’s Allas; and next to these 
Appleton's American Cyclopaedia; then 
the very best and fullest popular expositions 
of the Natural Sciences—Geology, Chemis¬ 
try, Botany, Astronomy. I cannot say with 
confidence which are now best; but Lard- 
ner’s and L yell’s Lectures were the best ex¬ 
positions of these sciences attainable twenty 
to twenty-five years ago. I have lately seen 
a (translated) French work on Astronomy 
which is better than uny other of which I 
have any knowledge. I should add Tenny¬ 
son’s and Whittier's Poems, a volume or 
two of Browning, and Dana’s Household 
Book of Poetry—by far the best compilation 
in our language; two or three good practi¬ 
cal treatises on Agriculture—one especially 
on Draining—and then 1 would spend what 
remained of the money in the very best His¬ 
tories, mainly the more modern, like Ban¬ 
croft’s United States, Grote’s Greece, 
Michelet’s France, and Motley’s Dutch 
Republic; though I should be very reluctant 
to do without the great works of Rollin 
and Gibbon. But, as I am talking of a 
library that may be bought for $800,1 dare 
uot name any more. If there should be a 
few dollars left, I should spend them on the 
best and most instructive Biographies. 
“ But would you include no novels in your 
collection ?” 
My Uncle Ben spent the better half of 
his protracted life in the new clearings, first 
of Western New York, then of Northwest¬ 
ern Pennsylvania; and it was one of his 
axioms that, in planting com on new and 
well-burnt tallow, it was not necessary to 
drop any pumpkin-seeds—that such land 
was so well adapted to the growth of pump¬ 
kins ihat enough would come up sponta¬ 
neously. I think much the same of provid- 
TEEVOB HALL: 
DORMITORY BUILDING OF THE ROCHESTER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. 
GROWING OLDER, 
Why should we cling to passing years, 
When Time, upon our faces, 
Unheeding its reception cold, 
A toll-tale wrinkle places? 
Why do wo sigh when In the hair 
A silver t hread Is showing, 
And wipe the tears from dimming eyes, 
And say, " I’m older growing ? 1 ’ 
Who wishes to enjoy bis youth, 
Must use young years to do it; 
Who longs to live beyond his prime 
Must surely truVol through it. 
But when all this is past, he finds, 
Although ’tla liurd to aay it, 
He owes Old Time a galling debt, 
Arid feebler years must pay It. 
So on his frowning brow is put, 
(Could anything be kinder?) 
Lest ho forget those happy days, 
A wrinkle, for reminder. 
And let lUm boar In mind, the whllo 
He dons a graver raiment, 
That each gray hair upon tho dark 
is a receipted payment. 
Does he regret, tho borrowed years, 
And wish he had not used them? 
It is not worth a mortal’s tears, 
If he has not ubu*cd them. 
Why do we talk of growing old. 
And dread the Ion-cold river? 
This life below, at most, la brief, 
For souls that live forever. 
Across the tide will be no change 
Of youthful garb for sober, 
Thegreen pf June Win never fade 
To gray of late October. 
There 'll be no longing for the past, 
No glances o'er the shoulder. 
No wrinkled brow, no dimming eye, 
Nor any growing older. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS, 
Five Week* in a Balloon. (New York: D. 
Appleton & Co.) -Iu the 315 pages ol’ this bright, 
fresh-looking 12m o., wo have a most Ingenious 
satire on English discoveries In Africa. Accord¬ 
ing to the title, it was “ compiled in French by 
Jules Verne, from the original notes of Dr. 
Ferguson, :uid done into English by William 
Lackland.” Dr. Ferguson, an Englishman of 
scientific learning, conceived the idea of cross¬ 
ing Africa in a balloon, purely for tho purpose 
of discovery. By a happy method of boating 
and cooling the gas in his alr-ehlp he would rise 
or fall at will, and thus make his observations 
complete and accurate. Two other Englishmen, 
•000 of them born in Scotland, wore to accom¬ 
pany him. The story tells us in what manner 
the idea was carried out,— how tho balloon was 
launched upon the atmosphere at Zanzibar with 
its daring occupants, what perils were encoun¬ 
tered, what strange experiences the discoverers 
enjoyed or failed to enjoy, wlntt curious adven¬ 
tures befell them, etc. It Is a book to laugh 
•over, ami to comprehend without any mental 
■effort,— a sort of l - Robinson Crusoe,” very read¬ 
able Indeed. As it gives, in a measure, the results 
♦of all bona tide African discovery, and accur- 
adoly describes those oonntries over which the 
'i oyuisei'3 pass, its perusal is not without, gaiu. 
THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. 
The Rochester Theological Seminary, 
located in Rochester, N. Y,, was founded in 
1850, by the New York Baptist Union lor 
Ministerial Education, and during the eight¬ 
een years of its existence has 3eut out nearly 
three hundred young men, graduates of forty 
different Colleges, who are doing efficient 
service as ministers of the Gospel. Its Pro¬ 
fessorships have been tilled by eminent 
scholars, and its course of instruction has 
been broad aud thorough. The present Fac¬ 
ulty is a very able and efficient one. The 
Rev, E. G. Robinson, D. D., President of 
the Seminary, and Professor of Biblical and 
Pastoral Theology, is widely known as one 
of the ablest theologians of the Baptist de¬ 
nomination, and is withal a most earnest 
and eloquent pulpit orator, as thousands of 
our readers can attest. Rev. A. C. Ken¬ 
drick, D. D., Professor of Biblical Litera¬ 
ture and Exegesis, has a high reputation as 
a Greek scholar, and is otherwise well 
qualified for the position he holds in the 
Institution. 
One feature peculiar to this Institution is 
the German Department, where German 
young men are educated to be preachers 
among their own countrymen in America. 
It is in charge of competent German instruct¬ 
ors ; and from it have gone forth over thirty 
well educated men who are accompl jshing a 
genuine home mission work. From the first 
General Catalogue, just issued, we le arn that 
the number of students now connect ed with 
the Seminary is forty-seven. 
The handsome edifice herewith portrayed, 
now in process of erection, haa long been 
needed. It is one hundred and six by forty- 
eight feet, four stories high, built of brick, 
and contains forty-eight suites of rooms,—a 
study-room and bed-room constituting a 
suite. Located in a pleasant part of the city, 
and supplied with every comfort and con¬ 
venience, it will be an attractive home for 
those who are preparing for tho ministry, 
and-will save them the cost of room rent. 
It was designed by J. R. Thomas of Roches¬ 
ter, and is being erected by voluntary contri¬ 
butions, taking its name from Mr. John B. 
Trevor, a wealthy banker of New York city 
and au estimable Christian gentleman, in ac¬ 
knowledgment of vc-iy liberal donations. 
Any of our readers desiring particular in¬ 
formation relative to the Seminary are re¬ 
ferred to the Rev. Trios. J. Morgan, Corre¬ 
sponding Secretary, Rochester. 
•Bail nine Be Sfaet. (New York: G.P.Put- 
nwn & -Soil.)— Now that tiiriioi'Hol novels are the 
in fictitious literature, we may feel thank- 
fVil that so good subjects as this one treats of 
aro chosen to build them upon. Madame dr 
Stall's life was a romance, with some beautiful 
vealUios inlet-blended, anil many stul ones. As 
dono into English here by Theodore Johnson, 
from the German of Amely Bolte, we cannot 
see that it; gains anything. Our fancy that It 
loses, instead, may bo only fancy; yet we eou- 
foas that «ur opinion of M. Nkckek’s daughter 
Is not so good as it was before we saw her through 
the romancer's spectacles. Wo mean to renew 
our acquaintance with her veritable history at 
once; and IT we then find that, the novelist has 
Jibe led her, wo shall pronounce against the his¬ 
torical novel more earnestly even than hereto¬ 
fore. As portrayed here, Madame mi Stall 
possessed all t he intellectual powers of a man, 
with all the affectionate weaknesses of a woman 
—ami more too. The additional weaknesses we 
have uot previously set down to her charge. The 
book is written in the somewhat affected style 
common to its class, and ranks very well with 
them in point of interest. 
lories for Hunt lists 
COMING together 
The Reverend Richard Hallowes was a 
man a little under the medium height, was 
plain rather than good-looking, and wore 
spectacles. He was clever, for lie had been 
a fellow of Uis college, allhough this honor 
was attained by hard reading rather than by , 
talent. Two years after lie had obtained his 
fellowship, a small living in the gift of the 
college became vacant. Several good livings 
being expected to fall in at an early date, the 
Cure of Kurslake was contemptuously refused 
by all the senior fellows, but readily accepted 
by Richard Hallowes. As it was worth 
about three hundred a year, with a house and 
very small glebe, IIallowes thought it bet¬ 
ter to take it. than to wait for years until his 
turn came for a richer gift. 
Karslake was a semi-rural parish. It stood 
upon the confines of the great coal-district of 
Staffordshire; and there were two or three 
colliery-chimneys in the valley. The miners 
inhabited little villages of their own, built for 
them close to the shafts. Karslake itself was 
a quiet little town, standing upon rising, but 
not high, ground. Its population was under 
a thousand, but scattered over a large sur¬ 
face ; and it wa3, iu fact, a village, rather 
than a town. 
The Reverend Richard Hallowes had 
not been settled three months in the parson¬ 
age-house at Karslake before he came very 
seriously to the conclusion that it was his 
duty to marry. He had always been of the 
opinion, very rightly, that a clergyman in 
charge of a parish, to be of any reaL utility 
should be married; and he had also a very 
strong theory of the kind of woman who 
ought to be a rector’s wife—a kind-hearted, 
motherly sort of woman, earnest in assisting 
her husband, indefatigable among the poor, 
and a peacemaker to the whole parish. 
Now, Laura IIernshawe was unques¬ 
tionably the belle of Karslake. Her father 
was the proprietor of one of the Collieries, 
and she had been sent? t.o a fashionable school 
by the sea-side to be educated, and had come 
back, about a year before the advent of the 
Reverend Richard IIallowes, a finished 
young lady. She was undoubtedly very 
pretty, and as undoubtedly she was rather 
fast—the ladies of Karslake said dreadfully 
fast; not that they used the word fast, but 
It i* JVevtr too S.aie to .fiend. (Boston: 
Fields, Osgood & Co.)—In many respects we like 
thi3 bettor than uny other of Charles Reade’s 
novels which we have road. As a delineator of 
some of the most Ignoble promptings in human 
nature It is truthful, without being debasing; 
as an illustration of what faithful labor for the 
fallen will accomplish it is encouraging to all 
who have human redemption at heart; and aa a 
work of fiction it is well sustained. When the 
underlying purpose of fiction is to aid In some 
ucoded reform, it is most to bo commended, fn 
this volume Mr. ft cads struck a telling blow at 
tho English prison system; and he deserves 
credit for so doing. The work is haudsoniely 
prosemted as one of the Household Edition. 
The Poetical Work* of leu-an tier Pope. 
(New Yoitlc: D. Appleton St Co.) —Forming an¬ 
other elegant volume of the Globe Edition of 
the poets, ixc-rc are given the productions of one 
who was ervlirely the poet of personality and 
polished life). Pope’s wit. was keen, his fancy 
delicate and playful, his language reflued. 
Known mo3t V videly by his Essay on Muu, he is 
yet uot well it. aown unless oue reads his other 
works, for that was not his happiest perform¬ 
ance. This nolle tstiou was edited by the Rev. H. 
F. Cary, and Is preluded by an appreciative 
biographical noti ce of the author. 
BOOKS, PAMP. 1LETS, Etc., RECEIVED, 
The Oldest Land.— Professor 
says that the strip of “highland 
divides the waters flowing into 
Lawrence from those flowing into t] 
tic,” is the oldest land in the world 
once a lonely sea beach, washed 
universal ocean. 
Tue Fair Maid of Pei MJ. a Romance. By Sir 
Walter Soyrr. Bart. LB mo.-pp. 196.] New 
York: D. Appleton & Cow 
Th e Phantom Simp. By Captain Marryatt, Au- 
til or of ’’Miclfililptnun E say, ’ 01 c. [Limo. — pp. 399.] 
New York : D. Appleton fc Go. 
Bra trawAiTE's Rnrttosp scr of Practical Med¬ 
icine AND SUIIGKKY. Pa ft LVIII. - January. New 
York: W. A. Townsend Ail Adams. 
Petf.ns’ Musical Mont hly. New York: J. U 
Peters. 
THE.MrsiCAL Independent., a Monthly Magaxlne. 
Chicago: Lyon it Healy. 
The pious and the believer shall not omit 
to learn wisdom, even from heretics. 
