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the heated atmosphere of Tamberlik. By and by, a New 
York opera audience will judge for itself. 
The light opera is making progress at the Olympic 
theatre, under the management of Mrs. Oates. Her per- 
sonation of Clarrette in ‘‘Madame Angot’s Child,” would 
be considered perfect, but for the impressions made by Bate- 
man’s artists. Looked upon as her own rendition, it is un- 
equalled on the comic opera stage. The ‘‘ Grand Duchess” 
consequently will prove a deserved success. We are more 
and more satisfied that opera bouffe is to become the national 
musical amusement. It is an advance on the best efforts of 
minstrelsy, andis really up tothe popular taste. In time 
we will have a heartfelt and understanding: audience for 
the grand opera—say in two hundred years. Over a century 
of trying has not succeeded in England to accomplish this 
result, but we are more mercurial, and consequently sooner 
learn to love and understand foreign airs, than do the 
stolid English. 
Wecalled the attention some week or two ago, tothe in- 
jury Verdi was doing in the way of ruining voices. An il- 
lustration is at our disposal where high notes, and igno- 
rance of professors were combined for that result. A Miss 
Jennie Bull (a fearful name for a successful singer, for you 
can’t Italianize it), is to appear at a concert in Rochester, 
her native city. This young lady commenccd taking les- 
sons from a local professor who decided her voice to be a 
soprano, and practiced her on the high notes; the result was 
a severe headache whenever she sang. A residence in Italy 
led to the discovery of a new register, and Miss Bull’s voice 
was called a mezzo soprano. But anew professor of more 
scientific attainments and more practical knowledge than 
his predecessors, was finally invoked, and discovering the 
errors of her former training, he changed the whole rou- 
tine, and she turns out to be a most lovely contralto, her 
enthusiastic admirer claiming that she will be a legitimate 
successor of Alboni! 

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INDIAN SUMMER. 
oe gees 
The Indian Summer bathes the northern zone, 
And, o’er the earth its gorgeous vesture flings, 
In jewelled grandeur, like to tropic wings; 
And ever through the lustrous aisles there sings 
A wandering air in wondrous monotone. 
A liquid ruby sprent with amethyst; 
So richer far than silk of samarcand, 
Shone coral yet so bright on golden strand 
As these fair touches of thy glowing wand, 
That brim like glories through the Indian mist? 
' — Canadian Monthly. 
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FALLS OF THE ZAMBESI. 
———— > 
The Falls of the Zambesi, or Victoria Falls, as Livingstone 
calls them, have been formed by a crack or fissure in the 
hard, black, balsaltic rock at right angles across the bed of 
the river. The old bed below the falls is still plainly indi- 
cated, and green with grass and trees, The chasm which 
extends along the entire front of the falls, and into which 
the water leaps, is about two hundred and sixty feet in depth, 
to the surface of the boiling and foaming water. The falls 
dnring the dry season are nearly a mile in extent, their 
line broken here and there by rocks and islands. In the 
wet season their length is increased by about a half a mile 
or more, and then the volume of water which pours over 
the falls is immense. 
The water on the west side of the falls, as it descends into 
the chasm, is collected in a narrow channel twenty or thirty 
yards wide, and flows toward the east at a right angle with 
the course of the stream above the falls. That on the east 
side flows through a similarly narrow channel toward the 
west. These two streams meet and unite in a fearful boil- 
ing whirlpool, before they find an outlet through a fissure of 
the rock at right angles with that of the fall, at about eleven 
hundred and seventy yards from the western end of the 
chasm, and six hundred from the eastern end. The Zam- 
besi, which spreads to such a breadth above the falls, is now 
compressed in a channel not more than twenty or thirty 
yards in width, and of no doubt almost inconceivable 
depth. 
The surface of the country is of the same level below the 
fall as above it, and the river continues in its course 
through a deep caifion, continually taking abrupt turns in 
its way—in fact, forming a series of connected and per- 
fectly defined letter §.’s. This cafion is not worn or cut by 
the action of the water. It is a split or crack in the rock. 
Its walls go sheer down, ‘‘ without any projecting crag or 
symptom of stratification or dislocation.” 
The immense steam-columns which continually ascend 
above the falls become condensed at an immense height, 
and descend in a perpetual shower of fine rain, which, 
beating against the face of the perpendicular rock, runs 
down in tiny streams, only to be swept back again by the 
upward-rushing vapor before they have reached the bottom. 
This rain gives life and verdancy to the evergreen groves, 
in whose branches, however, no bird ever sings or buildsits 
nest.—Mrs. H. B. Duffey, in To-day. 
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SIX-TOED ARABS. 


N the second number of the Zeitschrift fiir Hthnologie for 
1873, Baron Yon Maltzan gives an account of his travels 
in Arabia, and states that there are still many spots of 
which nothing is known beyond what Ptolemy was able to 
tellus. Baron von Maltzan selected the most southern ex- 
tremity of the peninsula, which is as yet a tabula rasa on 
our maps, for the scene of his explorations. He draws at- 
tention to the artistic skill exhibited by these people in 
statuary and carving, before they fell under the rule of their 
Mahomedan conquerors from Central Arabia, when all their 
earlier civilization was rudely checked and their language 
superceded, while they were then also first driven to adopt 
a nomadic mode of life. In spite, however, of amalgama- 
tion with Central Arabian elements, the population of South 
Arabia still admits of division into two distinct peoples, the 








Sabier and the Himyarites, the former of whom have light 
yellow skins, while the latuer, whose name he derives from 
Hamr, red, are so dark-skinned as to be generally classed 
amongst the black races. Baron Maltzan observed a curi 
ous physical character in the family of the Himyarite rulers 
of the Fodli, or Ozmani-State, many of whom, both males 
and females, had six fingers and six toes on both hands and 
feet. This peculiarity is looked upon by the people at 
large as a special mark of blue blood, and prized accord- 
ingly by the possessors. It would seem that the practice 
of forming consanguineous marriages, which prevails in 
the Fodli, as in other ruling houses, may of itself explain, 
as a mere case of hereditary recurrence, the appearance of 
this physiological character in numerous and remote mem- 
bers of the family. 
or 7 
A friend who has traveled extensively in the west tells 
us, that though that part of our country is the home of the 
live-fence, he finds more well-managed osage hedges in 
Pennsylvania than there. Asa generalrule, he says, after 
planting they are neglected, and become nuisances, in many 
cases bearing balls; or where ‘‘plashing ” has been resorted 
to in order to thicken up the naked places, they become 
very wide—immense thick masses of green foliage—which 
no good farmer here would think of enduring. 
Though we are not prepared to believe that there are no 
good osage-orange hedges in the west—indeed we believe 
they are as numerous in proportion to population and set- 
tlement as they are in the east—still we know many of the 
Pennsylvania hedges are commendable, and only wish that 
the care and attention they receive was more common. It 
is impossible to have a good hedge unless they aie trimmed 
up to a triangular or conical shape, so that the base is much 
wider than the top; and then the trimming should be done 
twice a-year—early in July and early in September. This 
of course requires labor; but it is impossible to get a good 
osage hedge without labor, and it is as well for those who 
purpose to plant hedges to understand this, and to calcu- 
late beforehand whether they can afford to give the labor 
required. Those who have hedges planted should see now 
to the fall trimming.—Germantown Telegraph. 


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Tue Birps or Froripa. By C. T. Maynard. Five plates 
drawn and colored from nature. By HelenS, Fairley, Salem Natur- 
alist’s Agency. Boston: Estes & Lauriatt. New York: Dodd & Mead. 
We have received the two first parts of “Birds of Florida.’ Itis in 
large quarto form, printed upon clear good paper, with wide margin, and, 
when bound will make a very valuable additon to the selection of the 
library of ornithology. The work is to be issued in twelve parts, at one 
dollar a part. The numbers before us, asa work of artistic merit 
are unexceptional in style, finish, historical correctness, and fidelity to 
life. Everything relating to the Birds of Florida is here plainly and con- 
cisely given. For this valuable collection and history of the birds of this 
interesting section of country we are indebted to the indefatigable and 
enthusiastic studies of the author, In the prosecution of these investiga- 
tions Mr. Maynard has visited all parts of Florida, including the keys 
and everglades, and devoted much of his time during a period of three 
years to the exclusive study of the feathered tribes and their peculiar 
habits. In this work are given full information of quite a number of 
birds of entirely new species, and others heretofore unknown to the 
general reader. 
Tue ToURMALINE: 
physical properties, &c., with four illustrations in colors. 
Dr. Hamlin. Boston: James R. Osgood, & Co. 
This is an intensely interesting work upon a subject but little known 
to our general readers. Probably but few persons, when asked, could 
readily give the true definition, and tell us much of the wonderful history 
of the gem Tourmaline. In the pleasant, quiet town of Paris, Maine, 
there is a mountain called Mount Mica. This shrine of many modern 
pilgrims was known years ago only to a few of the natives of Holland; 
to them it had a history and an interest unknown even in those days to 
but few favored ones. In the Eighteenth century, however, it seems 
that Mount Mica was not a sealed cave to the old Dutch navigators; they 
possessed the open sesame to its treasures, and not a few sparkling gems 
added to the rare wealth of their collections of curiosities. Prominent 
among their rare and beautiful gems sparkled the Tourmaline of Mount 
Mica. Dr. Hamlin gives us much interesting matter now for the first 
time placed before the reading public. He says that this location has al- 
ready yielded ‘‘more than one hundred crystals, which would be consid- 
ed rare and remarkable specimens, and that no other deposit in the 
world yet known, has yielded tourmalines of such variety of color.” This 
work contains illustrations of these crystals, showing their brilliancy 
of color &c., as well as a story of great interest, equal to aromance, and 
far better, for it is all true. 
PrenrippockEe. By Hamilton Aicde. 
Osgood & Co. 
This is a tale of the present time and of old English and continental 
life. There is within the pages of this book much amusing variety, both 
noyel and startling. The hero—though to our mind he is not much'‘of a 
hero, not half so well made up as the heroine, Elizabeth—makes his way 
into the garden, where he finds, according to the book, Elizabeth Penrid- 
docke, ‘‘seated on a three-legged stool, leaning her elbows on her knees, 
and her chin on her hand, with a plate of chicken bones, purings of cheese 
and pudding on the ground before her.”? Our hero and Elizabeth have 
the following colloquy upon rats, which conveys an idea of the quaint 
character of the work:— 
“And now tell me, forI am really curious to know—what ave you 
doing here with that plate? I see neither cat nor dog.” 
“J should hope not, indeed!”’ replied Etizabeth, swallowing the bait, 
and with more animation in her tone than I had observed. She then 
pointed to a hole in the boards, in a corner of the shed just opposite to 
her. ‘‘Look there! She won’t come out, though, while you stand here. 
Go outside the door, and watch from there.”’ 
I obeyed, and Elizabeth began a low cooing whistle. For nearly 
minute this produced no results; then from my post of observation, I per- 
ceived a long gray whisker protrude from the hole, followed by a sensi- 
tive nose, that snifted cautiously from right to left, and, finally, the body 
belonging to it, that of a very large old rat, appeared, followed by three 
young ones. They all gathered round the plate at Elizabeth’s. feet, and 
then began a family repast which was really curious to watch. The 
mother permitted her_progney to devour up the pudding and cheese par- 
ings as they chose; but the bones she selected, dividing the small ones 
with impartiality among her young, and keeping the big ones, which re- 
quired tougher teeth, for herself. I, whose ideas of a rat were insep- 
arable from a terrier, and who had never seen one at Beaumanoir but in 
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either a fugitive or a bellicose attitude, was astonished quite’ as: 
much as I was entertained bya peep into the domestic interior. Hli- 
zabeth half turned her head towards me with asmile; and putting her 
finger to her lips, she produced from her pocket an egg, which as soon as 
the plate was cleared, she placed there. The old rat raised herself on 
her hind legs, leant over the edge of the plate and smelt the egg. Having 
satisfied herself, she carefully raised it in her fore-paws, and as carefully 
deposited it on the floor. Then she rolled it along as a man rolls a bar- 
rel, to her hole; but now came the difficult part of the operation. Evi- 
dently there was a drop of four or five inches from the flooring to the 
ground beneath, which the astute animal was conscious might smash the 
egg. She, therefore, descended first; and, standing on her hind-legs, one 
of the young rats pushed the egg towards her, and she raised it in her 
fore-paws. I never saw any thing more cleverly done, and could not re- 
sist an exclamation, which sent the three juniors scampering down their 
hole at a pace which must have somewhat imperilled the egg, I fear. 
Lecrures AND Sermons. By Rev. W. Morley Punshon. 
Boston: Estes & Launot. 
We have received this book though the politeness of some friend; did 
we know to whom we are indebted for it, we would “with pleasure give 
him credit. Itis apassable book; and the frontispiece is said “‘to look like 
the author.”’ It probably does him justice. Judging from it, we think 
Mr. Punshon a good man, possessed of a good share of intellect, with ordi- 
nary powers ann ability. His delineation of character is sometimes good, 
but generally more natural to the life, than possessing that great quality, 
by some sermonizers called “rhetoric.” But that Rev. Mr. Punshon is 
agreatly superior to many othergintelligent pastors and teachers of the pre? 
sent time, we cannot see much evidence in the book before us. His ser- 
mons are simply very good specimens of the kind, and will be found im- 
proving and healthful to many readers. 
DeEratL CoTTaAGE AND CONSTRUCTIVE ARCHITECTURE.—-New 
York: A. I. Bicknell & Co., Architectural Book Publishers. 
We have received from the publishers the above very valuable work 
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adapted to the wants of the building community. For some time past 
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exquisite finish. It has forty-five elevations, perspective plans and speci- 
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is now just published and placed in the market in fine large royal quarto 
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STRANGERS AND PiueGrims. By Miss Braddon. 
Harper & Bro’s Class Select Novels. 
Many women think, if we are to judge them by their actions, that they 
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the work itself for the final solution of this social question of the day. 
ArtHur BonnicastLE. By J. G. Holland. New York, 
Scribner, Armstrong & Co. 1V.1.12Mo. Illustrated with twelve full 
illustrations by Mary A. Hallock. 
We have carefully read Arthur Bonnicastle, (a practice we pursue with 
every book we notice) and can say with the utmost confidence that itis the 
very best of the later works of Dr. Holland. To accord this work meager 
praise, would be doing an injustice to a book that should be read by 
every one. Reader, you cannot lightly skim over this volume, as most 
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Holland's last work with much higher views of human life and renewed 
obligations within his own heart of living a nobler manhood. 
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Pickering, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for the use of 
students. This work will open witha preliminary chapter on general 
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sound, light, liquid, gasses, solid, &c. This work will be brought out by 
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Tue Soutn.—The kind and generous welcome extended 
the Forrest AND STREAM by our contemporaries is warmly appreciated; 
but a special acknowledgment is due to the'editor of the above journal, 
for his hearty and repeated commendations of our paper. He possesses 
the heart of a true sportsman, as wellas the pen ofa “‘ready writer.” 
The South is devoted to the resources and development of the South, and 
its pages evince a thorough knowledge of the condition and wants of that 
section, and a zeal and enterprize which commend it to the hearty support 
of the Southern people and all interested in Southern progress. Several 
special issues of the paper have been devoted to different States, the 
demand for which led to their publication also in the German language. 
The issue for the Georgia State Fair contained several fine illustrations, 
and much interesting matter relative to the attractions of that State. Last 
week’s edition was devoted to North Carolina, and was a very attractive 
number. We commend this journal to all interested in the important 
section of country to which itis devoted. The South office is in the 
new Herald building, Ann and Nassau streets. Terms $3. a year. 

The beautiful engravings of birds in Avilude cost hundreds of dollars, 
and the fine and instructive pert Say many weeks of labor. Every 
family ought to have it. For sale by all booksellers and toy dealers, or 
‘sent post paid on receipt of seventy-five cents, by West & Lee, Wor- 
-cester, Mass. 
“An excellent addition to our home amusements.”— Christian Uneen 
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