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Under this head we publish such voluntary contributions as we deem sufficiently Interesting or suggestive to merit a place here, but without Indorsing either the opinions or the alleged facts.

EXTENSIVE PEDESTRIANISM. [WESTON'S recent undertaking has developed so much interest in pedestrianism, that we have been induced to take the following from the Sydney (Australia) Illustrated News, as a further illustration of what may be done by perseverance and a purpose. There is a large brain under that hat.-ED. A. P. J.]

"Mr. Christian Frederick Schafer, a German, who has traveled over a great portion of the globe, has arrived in Melbourne, Australia, having walked overland from Sydney. Mr. Schafer has traveled about 100,000 miles in the countries he has visited, of which nearly 60,000 were accomplished on foot. On the 6th of May he arrived in Sydney, from Batavia. Mr. Schafer is a dwarf, having met with an accident when only eight years old, which caused curvature of the spine; but, by temperate living, he enjoys uniform good health. During his travels in

America he met with President Johnson, whose guest he was for three weeks. Being a very intelligent man, his society is always acceptable in the highest circles. He was in all the principal cities of the United States, and went all the way from Portland, Maine, to San Francisco, mostly on foot. He is thirty-one years of age, and a native of Hesse Cassel, Germany, and commenced his travels fifteen years ago, with the object of writing an account of the world from personal observation. He has often walked forty miles a day, and is able, without any great fatigue, to walk that distance for many days in succession. He was three weeks in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, and had many conversations with the Mormon prophet, Brigham Young, whom he describes as a very courteous, well-informed man, who has the nous to flatter strangers, as he believes they will talk about him as one of the curious sights of the world. Mr. Schafer carries a diary with him, in which he notes the incidents of his travel as they happen. He has shown us the autographs of several eminent personages, among others, President Johnson, Secretary Seward, Horace Greeley, Anna Dickinson, Henry Ward Beecher, Generals Grant and Sherman, His Holiness the Pope, and Sir Richard Graves McDonald, Governor of Hong Kong, and formerly of South Australia. When in China,

the Emperor refused to allow him to enter Pekin. Mr. Schafer has met with many changes in life. In the morning he has breakfasted with the highest personages, and in the evening has supped with a peasant. From San Francisco Mr. Schafer went to Hong Kong, and visited many places in the Celestial Empire. He then proceeded to Java. He intends to return to Europe by way of India and China, and from thence he will proceed across the Great Desert and Russian Tartary, visiting Siberia before he finally returns to Germany. He possesses nearly 6,000 photographs, and has quite a miniature museum of curiosities. He thinks that he will have finished his stupendous feat in about three and a half years, and will then devote himself to the production of his book, which he intends to publish in English."

[We have had the pleasure of entertaining, and of being entertained by, this famous traveler at the Phrenological Cabinet, 389 Broadway, New York, and shall look with interest for the book he promises to write.]

A QUAKER WEDDING.

BY J. E. SNODGRASS, M.D.

THE July (1867) number of the PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL gave an interesting article on "Quaker Courtship." I was reminded by it of a Quaker wedding which I attended, and I propose to give a description of it.

Before doing this, I must be allowed to remark that one of the most unique usages of this people, whose habits are as orderly as their customs are peculiar, is their marriage ceremony-if I may be allowed to call it a ceremony without giving them offense, for I am aware that they profess to discard ceremonials of every sort.

Although there are two schools of this sect in this country (not including those known as Progressive Friends), there is no difference among them as to this and most of their other customs. This ceremony is certainly remarkable for its simplicity, its beauty of simplicity. The daughter of a medical brother of mine was a party, and a personal interest in him induced me to attend. I omit the names of the bride and groom, as non-essential to my purpose.

Although the ceremony was performed in the meetinghouse usually attended by the parties concerned, and the day was that devoted to the mid-week meeting, and their marriage "intentions" had been declared a month in advance, and the time and place were known, the attendance was not much larger than at ordinary meetings, while there were no such indications of excitement as would have been looked for at the public marriages in other sects of Christians. But among those present there was a large proportion of young people of both sexes, evidently such as had not gone through the interesting ordeal they had assembled to witness. A considerable part of these I judged, from their rather gay apparel, to be either "world's people" or " Hickory Quakers." This class posted themselves "up stairs," as the Friends call what other religionists usually designate as the "gallery," their gallery being quite another arrangement, and answering in use, thongh very dissimilar in form, to the more familiar pulpit of the churches. And here, again, it may be well to remark that this sect nover designate their places of worship as churches, but simply "meeting-houses." In their "gallery," which is a collective designation for several elevated seats at the end of the building fartheet from the main doors, their official members had, as usual, arranged themselvesthat is, the "recommended ministers" and the "elders" and overseers," who are chosen from both sexes. They faced the meeting, the men on the right side, looking toward the doors, and the women on the left; those in the body of the house corresponding in location, with the strictest reference to their rule of a separation of the sexes in worship, after the old-fashioned and still usually kept-up practice of the Methodists. So strictly do the Quakers adhere to this rule of separateness, which they deem indispensable to good order and acceptable worship, that on this occasion a young man, in his ignorance of their customs, happening to follow a lady under his charge to the "women's side," where he had cosily seated himself, was instantly tapped on the shoulder, in the most gentle manner imaginable, by the door-keeper, and pointed to his proper place, to the bringing of a quiet

smile upon the faces of the young Quakeresses among whom he had seated himself!

At the appointed hour for worship (10% o'clock), the bride and groom and their attendants-two for each, instead of half a dozen or more, as not uncommon at the marriages of "the world's people”-made their appearance in carriages, accompanied by their parents and other kinsfolk. They quietly and unostentatiously entered the meeting-house and took their seats in the following order: The bride and groom sat on a slightly elevated bench under the gallery and facing the assemblage, she arrayed in a dress of simplest bridal white, with bonnet and vail corresponding. There was the absence of everything like artificial adornments, while the pattern of her robe, if robe it should properly be called, was the plainest conceivable. On either side of the bride and groom sat their parents, while their attendants were arranged opposite, on the front seats on either side of the central aisle, téte-à-tête to them, respectively, but with their backs to the body of the meeting. All sat for about thirty or forty minutes in wrapt silence. The noise of a falling pin might have been heard amid the profound stillness of the breathless scene. At the end of the time named, the groom rose, with his head uncovered, and took his affianced bride by the hand as she arose with her bonnet on, and declared, in beautiful clearness and naturalness of voice, as follows:

"In the presence of the Lord and this assembly, I take Mary Joy to be my wedded wife, promising, with divine assistance, to be unto her a loving and faithful husband until death shall separate us."

The bride then repeated the same ceremony, with only such changes as were necessary for sexual appropriateness. This being done, the groomsmen brought forward a plain table, with equally plain writing materials, whereon was a marriage certificate. This was on parchment, in plainness and neatness of taste corresponding with the other arrangements, which they carefully unrolled. Inking one of a number of pens with great care, so that no blot should mar the document, one of the groomsmen handed it to the groom, who affixed his signature, and then to the bride for the same purpose. The clerk of the meeting-a standing official, whose duties at all business meetings simulate those of the more customary chairman and secretary in one, except that he never takes any vote, but, instead thereof, gathers the sense or "feeling" of the assemblage, and records itnow had an important duty to perform. He accordingly took his position in the gallery; and, quietly adjusting his spectacles, he first rolled up and then unrolled the certificate, reading its contents as he did so in a distinct voice. As there was nothing in it beyond the few words necessary to record the transaction, I will not take up space in copying it entire. Suffice it to say that it declared the "sense" of the meeting to be that the marriage knot was now tied according to the usage of Friends, which no doubt was the "feeling" of the bride and groom, though there was nothing in their self-possessed demeanor to indicate that they had any unusual feeling on the occasion in the ordinary sense of the word. But perhaps it would be as well to give some of the facts in the language of the certificate itself, instead of our own, as illustrative of the careful guarding of the institution of marriage by the Quakers. It certified that the parties had duly "laid their intentions" before the **monthly meeting;" that there had been nothing found "in the way" of their union, and that, in a word, all had been found right and proper between them, and as to other possible claimants of their hearts and hands; and that, therefore, the certificate had been granted to them by the meeting.

Under the certificate, on the ample parchment, there was a form for the signatures of witnesses. This was open to all present, whether outsiders, like the writer of this, or members. He did not fail to affix his signmanual to it. And he wishes the act to stand, not merely as his certification of the fact of this Quaker marriage having been consummated in due form, but, at the same time, as his testimony to the beautiful simplicity of the ceremony throughont; for he is free to say that the whole scene did most favorably impress him, as it could not have failed to impress all other unprejudiced observers.

But it is proper to say, that the signatures of the wit

nesses were not appended until after the meeting "broke," with the usual signal of the shaking of hands by the male heads of the meeting," as the venerable Friends who sit nearest to the middle aisle of tho "gallery" are styled, in the common parlance of the Society.

During one of the intervas of the marriage ceremony, a venerable "woman Friend" improved the occasion, as she, no doubt, was spiritually "moved" to do, with some very timely and appropriate words. These she spoke from her position in the gallery. She alluded to the solemnity befitting the occasion, and continued for fifteen or twenty minutes in a strain of genuine pathos, which could not have failed to stir a responsive chord in every heart present.

And herein I detected the great contrast between the scene which we are describing and that which too frequently marks ordinary marriage occasions. The too common levity was there hushed in a solemn stillness more befitting the serious business in haud. Not that the Quakers are wanting in mirth. They reserve their mirth for the bridal hearth. And you will vainly look there for long faces or austere countenances under the broadest-brimmed hat or the most smoothly-plaited bonnet. With their simple and quiet lives, and their orderly walk and conversation, they can afford to be cheerful, as those reposing in the consciousness of right, and in the conviction which they have always seemed to us to carry about them, that "all things are beautiful in their time," and that "there is a time to be merry, as

well as a time to be sad."

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LETTERS FROM EUROPE. By John W. Forney, Secretary of the Senate of the United States: Proprietor and Editor of the Philadelphia Press and Washington Chronicle. With a Portrait of the Author, engraved on Steel, by Sartain, and a Complete Alphabetical Index. One volume, cloth. gilt. Price, $2. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers.

This neat collection comprises a series of letters descriptive of the journey tc and through Europe, with observations on European society. Among them are the following: The Outward Bound; First Day at Liverpool; Railwayism and Factories; in the House of Commons; British Sympathy with Freedom; Reform and RevoIntion; London Amusements; The Peabody Fund; Spurgeon's Tabernacle; Joùn Bright; Langham Hotel; Rebel Leaders in Exile; Westminster Abbey; American Railroad Stock; Low Wayes and Little Education; Visit to Shakspeare's Grave; Free Trade and Protection; The Universal Exposition: Government of France; Tombs of Napoleon and Lafayette; Imperial Printing Office; Solferino and Gettysburg; Switzerland; BadenBaden; Upon the Rhine; Belgium; Holland; The Irish Church; Royal Authorship; Peoples and Places Contrasted; Foreign Capital; The Times Office; The Schützenfest; Pavements, Coaches, and Cabs.

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Dickens. With thirty-two original illustrations, from designs by Phiz and Seymour. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers. Price, $2 in cloth.

This edition of the illustrious bachelor, with his eccentric philanthropy and crusty, obstinate humor, is gotten up in an entirely new style by the energetic publishers whose names we are so often called on to record. The volume is a neat octavo, with clear type, and those fantastic engravings which so well accord with Dickens' facctious descriptions. Altogether, the edition is one of the most economical and tasteful of those recently Dublished.

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OF DAVID COPPERFIELD. By Charles Dickens. People's Edition. With twelve illustrations by H. K. Browne. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers. Duodecimo Edition. One vol., 962 pages. Price, $1 50.

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TRANSACTIONS OF THE ECLECTIC MEDICAL SOCIETY of the State of New York. For the Year 1866. There are indications of progress in eclectic medicine if the contents of this volume are valid, and we have no reason to think otherwise. A discussion of temperamental influences by Dr. Powell is given at length, and forms one of the most interesting articles in the collection. Many other articles, considering eclectic and other theories of various common diseases, of no little value to the medical student and practitioner, are published therein. $3.

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A hygienist might not accept some of the recipes for favorite dishes on account of the pepper, butter, and lard somewhat freely employed in them; but no doubt tho great majority of our housewives would indorse them cordially, grease and all. The most valuable part of the volume, in our opinion, is that relating to the care of young children, the training of servants, and the home treatment of sudden indispositions and accidents to the person. The suggestions given with reference to clothing are eminently practical, as are also those relating to the arrangement of a dwelling and the economical ordering of its important adjunct, the kitchen. Our readers may consider the book worthy of personal consideration when we inform them that its authors are frequent contributors to the pages of the PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL.

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This story, which has been so long running through the Atlantic Monthly, is at last finished, and published in a neat book. Praise of anything written by Oliver Wendell Holmes is unnecessary, as he always manages to so say what he says that whoever begins to read will keep on to the end. He uses phrenological terms to designate character, and depicts peculiarities with much minuteness. Myrtle Hazard is the name of the heroine, and it is in very good keeping with the phases of her young life. She is introduced to the reader by an advertisement in the Village Oracle as having been missed from her home for the last two days, and is described as "a child, fifteen years old, tall and womanly for her age, dark hair and eyes, fresh complexion, regular features, a pleasant smile and voice, but shy with strangers." Such a "child" would be very likely to need a “Guardian Angel" in such vicissitudes as she had to pass through, and hers appeared in the form of "Master Byles Gridley, A.M., a bachelor, who had been a schoolmaster, a college tutor, a professor, a man of learning, of habits, of whims, of crotchets, such as are hardly to be found except in old, unmarried students." In describing him phrenologically, Clement Lindsay-who married Myrtle Hazard-maintained he had a bigger bump of Benevolence, and as large a one of Cautiousness, as the two people most famous for the size of these organs on the phrenological chart he showed him, and proved it, or nearly proves it, by careful measurements of his head." "The Guardian Angel" will have a place among the most popular novels of the day.

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This is an exceedingly neat sample of Messrs. Ticknor & Fields' publications, so far as paper, typography, and binding are concerned. As to the contents, the devotional and the curious can find therein much of interest. If we would study the spirit of ancient literature in its strongest and most fervid aspect, we should contemplate those utterances of the soul, when communing with Deity, which have been transmitted to us on the conserving parchment. The reader of this book will learn how Socrates, Plato, and Veda framed their petitions, as well as St. Augustine, Mohammed, Luther, Bossuet, Jeremy Taylor, and Channing The collection forms a volume of no mean value to any library.

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Dr. Flint, as a medical practitioner, lecturer, and author, has obtained the general respect of the members of his profession. Giving his attention more particularly to the department of physiology, he has been enabled by assiduous study and investigation to accumulate an amount of data which renders his instructions and carefully prepared works of great value to the student and general practitioner. Something over a year ago the author published the first volume of his contemplated series on the subject of physiology, and its reception encouraged him to carry forward his plan with, as is evidenced by the speedy production of a second volume, considerable zeal and diligence. The great subjects of alimentation, digestion, absorption, lymph, and chyle are extensively treated in this volume. Fully appreciating the importance of correct dietetic principles, which unfortunately can not be said of the great mass of physi cians, Dr. Flint has, with much pains and great clearness of statement and illustration, quite comprehended the large scope of the subject of alimentation. The details furnished with respect to digestion and absorption are very numerous and interesting, especially as practical rules and suggestions are given as guides for those who would eat and drink to the refreshing and strengthening of their bodies and not to their impairment. The articles of food in common use are each described, and their nutritive and other properties explained at length. Besides, several formulas are given for the preparation of food for the table. The facts adduced in illustration of the deleterious effects of improper and insufficient food are striking. Andersonville prison with its horrid dietary is instanced as exemplifying the pernicious results of bad and scanty provisions on large bodies of men. The reader of this portion of the work will be impressed by the remarkable and varied phenomena exhibited by the captive soldiers in relation to their worse than wretched fare.

In treating of digestion, Dr. Flint has based his statements upon accumulated experimental facts, and thus avoided the confusion and contrariety of opinion so prevalent in the works of earlier authors. Not satisfying himself with the dicta of others, he has made it a part of his work to trace important physiological discoveries to their source, and to verify also important facts, as far as possible, by personal experiment. As a review of the actual facts relating to the subjects treated, the work has no superior.

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This is an extended work, having for its evident purpose the logical as well as theological substantiation of the Divinity of Jesus Christ. The subject of the inquiry which forms the title of the book is dealt with in such a specific manner, that the author doubtless had in view a refutation of the subtile and speculative reasonings of Strauss, and the bolder but much less synthetic enunciations of Rénan. That the author has been to much pains in preparing the work is evident from the elaborate nature of its divisions, as evidenced in the table of contents, viz.: Christ in the Old Testament; Jesus in Modern History; Jesus in Ancient History; Jesus in Chronology; Jesus in the Church; Jesus in Psychology; Who was Jesus? Jesus of Nazareth, a Nazarite; Jesus in Types and Prophecy; Jesus the Messiah; Three Years' Ministry of Jesus; Jesus the Prophet; The Miracles of Jesus; Third and last Passover: The Trial, Crucifixion, and Resurrection: Ethics of Jesus. To the seriously religious this work will furnish excellent material for study and reflection. To the indifferent about heavenly things, if they will seek its pages for mental improvement only, it offers a field for the exercise of thought which few books of modern publication afford.

Many of the positions taken by the writer in the course of his argument are new, and exhibit an extent of Scriptural research very rarely met with in the ranks of the greatest commentators. The writer assumes that the Scriptures are largely allegorical, and in this view of them the testimony of Christ is to be found on almost every page. Calling to his aid mathematical computation, he introduces many remarkable calculations in confirmation of biblical chronology and the advent of Christ. The calculations are made because, as he says: "I can find no chronology extant but what conflicts with some specific statement on its pages.

* * I regarded

the Old Testament, being the work of a higher power, as necessarily complete in itself; therefore concluded to ascertain whether or no the elements of a perfect chronology from Adam to Jesus were to be found within its limits; especially as such a work was essential to a correct reading of its pages, and I think I succeeded."

We think the book worth perusal simply for the examination of the author's views on Scriptural chronology, the rock on which many have wrecked their faith.

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In these short stories Dickens' raciness is exhibited in its full vigor. A Christmas Carol, The Cricket on the Hearth, and The Haunted Man, long ago acquired an advanced reputation with the reading public, and have in no wise declined in interest since.

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BARNABY RUdge. By Charles Dickens. With twelve original illustrations, from designs by H. K. Browne. T. B. Peterson & Brothers, Philadel phia. Price, $1 50 in cloth.

This edition of "Barnaby Rudge" is the sixth volume of an entire new edition of Charles Dickens' Works, now in course of publication by T. B. Peterson & Brothers, Philadelphia, which is called "The People's Edition, Illustrated." It is printed on fine white paper, from large, clear type, a size that all can read. It is a good and cheap edition of "Barnaby Rudge," which abounds in grotesque character and humor.

THE LONDON DAILY STAR, organ of John Bright and others of like opinions, did us the honor recently-they spell it honour of noticing our modest monthly in terms to wit: THE PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL is a handsomely got up monthly quarto, with numerous illustrations, and published by the celebrated New York house of S. R. Wells, late Fowler and Wells, and issued in London by J. Burns, 1 Wellington Road, Camberwell, S. The last two numbers, besides a rich variety of matter, give portraits and phrenological critiques of the Revs. T. Binney and Newman Hall, besides various physiognomical representations of human character. All who are interested in phrenology, physiology, ethnology, education, and social reforms in general will have a complete library of reading, for the month, in this elaborately, yet popularly conducted periodical. It is obvious neither labor nor expense is spared to make it worthy of world-wide success."

For all of which we beg to return thanks, and would venture to express the hope, that the JOURNAL may continue to increase in popularity and usefulness.

A CINCINNATI paper contains a notice written by Dr. A. Curtis, of the new edition of the "Essay on Man," by Alexander Pope. He says: "The most beautiful edition of this, the richest gem of English literature, has just been issued in New York. The poem is illustrated with cuts, and phrenological notes from S. R. Wells, which, to most readers, greatly enhance the value of the work. The type is so large and clear that it is peculiarly valuable to critics who would read it, and to their hearers who follow them in the examination and application of this beautiful and most instructive poem. I know of no other so well adapted to instruction in elocution and morals, in all our schools, as this little work." It is handsomely bound in muslin, beveled boards, gilt; price, $1; and in plain paper, at 50 cents.

THE HOME JOURNAL-cleanest and fairest of all the weeklies-renews its youth and vigor with the new year. The editor says: "The object of The Home Journal is to furnish a pure, high-toned, entertaining paper of Literature, Art, and Society for American homes-a paper that shall promote a true culture and refinement, and foster at the fireside those pleasures, sentiments, and sanctities which make home the Eden of the heart. Party politics, and all matters of a sectarian, sectional, or sensational nature are carefully excluded." Terms, $3 a year. Published by Morris Phillips & Co., at 107 Fulton Street, New York.

DEMOREST'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE for December lies on our table. It contains several full-page illustrations of the newest fashions, besides articles and tales of a miscellaneous nature. Subscription price, $3 a year; single copies 30 cents.

Its title means simply that, inasmuch as everybody is supposed to have heard of our famous city thoroughfare, that it would prove a success when used to bait a hook to catch readers. It is written by Englishmen, printed by Englishmen, but it is expected to sell to story readers in both countries.

THE NORTHWESTERN FARMER, a handsome monthly, published at $1 50 a year, by T. A. BLAND, Indianapolis, Indiana, proposes to club that magazine with the A. P. J. at $3 a year. We do not know how he can afford it; but that is his offer. The Farmer contains 28 quarto pages, with illustrations, and is intended to promote the interests not only of the Farmer,

but of all that belongs to rural life.

THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT of the Young Men's Christian Association of the City of New York contains in extenso the transactions of the organization for the twelve months ending May, 1867. The rooms of this meritorious body of young men are at 161 Fita Avenue, where a well-furnished library and reading-room are open to all comers.

THE MARYLAND EDUCATIONAL JOURNAL. A school and family monthly. $1 50 a year. E. S. Zevely, publisher, Cumberland, Md. It is now in the last quarter of its first year, and is pushing on vigorously the work of education in "My Maryland." Success to all well-directed efforts in this direction.

THE AMERICAN ECLECTIC MEDICAL Published REVIEW is edited by R. S. Newton, M.D. monthly, at $2 a year, in New York. This may be regarded as the organ of the Eclectic Medical School in the United States. It is ably edited and handsomely printed.

TO BE READY IN JANUARY.

THE BOOK OF ORATORY; or, The Extemporaneous Speaker. Sacred and Secular. Including a Chairman's Guide. By Rev. Wm. Pittenger. Introduction by Hon. John A. Bingham. A clear and succinct exposition of the rules and methods of practice by which readiness in the expression of thought may be acquired, and an acceptable style, both in composition and gesture. $1 50. S. R. Wells, New York, publisher.

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LIFE IN THE WEST; or, Stories of the Mississippi Valley. By N. C. Meeker, agricultural editor of the New York Tribune.

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Notices under this head are of selections from the late issues of the press, and rank among the more valuable for literary merit and substantial information.

BREAKING AWAY; or, The Fortunes of a Student. By W. T. Adams (Oliver Optic). Cloth, $1 40.

THE STARRY FLAG; or, The Young Fisherman of Cape Ann. By W. T. Adams (Oliver Optic). Cloth, $1 40.

PRACTICAL ANATOMY. A New Arrangement of the London Dissector. With numerous Modifications and Additions. Illustrated. By D. H. Agnew, M.D. Second Edition, revised. Cloth, $2 25.

POEMS OF FAITH, HOPE, AND LOVE. By Phoebe Cary. 16mo, pp. 249. Cloth, $1 75.

THE QUEENS OF AMERICAN SOCIETY. By Mrs. Ellet.

50 cents.

GRACE IRVING'S VACATION, WITH ITS SUNBEAMS. 18mo, pp. 308. Cloth, $1 40.

PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. By B. J. Lossing. Vol. 2. Cloth, $5.50.

CLIMBING THE ROPE; or, God Helps Those who Try to Help Themselves. By May Mannering. Illustrated. $1 15.

SELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS OF JOHN RUSKIN. Cloth, $2 75.

LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND, from the Norman

Author. Revised and Edited by Caroline G. Parker. Cloth, $2 25.

AN OFFER OF MARRIAGE.ED. PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL-Dear Sir: I am in a quandary, and appeal to you for advice. A young gentleman of respectable family, in good society, a merchant's clerk on a salary of $1,500 a year, offers me his hand in marriage. I am sure he loves me: think I could love him. He is two years older than myself-dark complexion; I am

AN ORDER FOR BOOKS. JOURNALS, ete., must be written on a sheet by itself. Questions for this department-To CORRESPONDENTS and communications for the Editor, must be written on SEPARATE slips. SPECIAL NOTICE-Owing to the crowded state of our columns generally, and the pressure upon this department in particular, we shall be compelled hereafter wo decline all questions relating to subjects not properly coming within the scope of this JOURNAL. Queries relating to PHYSIOLOGY, PHRENOL-light-a blonde. My circuinstances are OGY, PHYSIOGNOMY, PSYCHOLOGY, ETHNOLOGY, and ANTHROPOLOGY, or the general SCIENCE OF MAN, will still be in order, provided they shall be deemed of GENERAL INTEREST. Write your question plainly on a SEPARATE SLIP OF PAPER, and send us only ONE at a time.

FISH STORY.-If a tub partly filled with water be placed on the scales and carefully balanced, and some small live fish are afterward put in the water, will the scales indicate the weight of the fish?-if not, why not?

Ans. That subject has been mooted, we suppose, for ages. We remember the story from our boyhood, and have heard it confidently asserted that a fish weighing a pound put into a pail half full of water would not increase the weight of the whole. Now, this can not be. Ten pounds of water will be indicated as ten pounds on the scales, and if a fish be put in, tl: scales will indicate an additional weight equal to the weight of the fish. Now, permit us to ask you a question. Why don't you try it? and then you will know, and you will thus explode an old error or establish something contrary to philosophy and common sense.

STUDENTS OF Phrenology. -There is a growing inquiry on the subject of learning Phrenology, not merely as an accomplishment or as a matter of curiosity, but an earnest wish to fathom its depths and comprehend the length and breadth of the subject. The following is a specimen of the spirit of many letters received by us.

the

easy; have taught school two years; am now at home with my parents, who are unwilling to have me leave home; still, being of age," they will not interfere in the thoroughly temperance family, while the least with my wishes. But we are a gentleman referred to is what is termed a "moderate drinker," not habitual; to which I can not seriously object, though my friends do. The point with me is this. I have an utter loathing for tobacco, and the gentleman is addicted to its use. He

smokes a pipe after his meals, and chews very moderately when about his worksays he can quit it, but it does him no harm, and is a luxury. The cost is but little. Now, what I want to know is this, will he become confirmed in these habits so as to be incurable, and must his wife always suffer the nauseous smell? If he is to become a tobacco sot, I would rather not marry him.

Ans. This is, indeed, a serious question. The habits referred to are very common among men. Comparatively few are exempt. We find chewers, smokers, and snuffers in the pulpit, in the colleges, in the halls of legislation, in workshops, stores, hotels, steamboats, railways, dining rooms, drawing rooms, everywhere. Young men and boys learn by imitation. Tobacco is loathsome to all unperverted tastes, and especially so to women-yet some coarse natures affect to "rather like the fragrance of a good cigar." Parents seeing their young sons indulging in the weed protest against it; but sonny replies, "Father smokes, our clergyman smokes, other boys smoke. Why can't I?" "But it will make you a dwarf in mind if not in body, to smoke, chew, and spit yourself away."

"I'll risk it. General Grant smokes all

Name your

the time, and he is not exactly a dwarf." It's very well for grown-up men to tell us boys that we should not smoke." I remember a story of a man who, with wicked for swearing. oaths, flogged his son Example is greater than precept. Our advice to the lady is this. objections frankly to the gentleman, and say to him that you can not be happy with one who makes himself constantly offensive. If he will drop both tobacco and liquor you will entertain him. Then wait six months or a year, and when the habits are abandoned you may be safe in permitting him to become your husband and the

I purpose studying Phrenology with a view to teaching it, and lecturing upon laws that govern man, I want a thorough knowledge of every branch. I desire to understand the science of the soul and the connection of mind and matter-how the mental governs and controls the physical. I want to be able to demonstrate clearly to the world the cause of physical degeneracy and moral depravity; how to prevent disease, and how to cure the suffering. What books do I need, and what would be their cost, and how much study will be necessary before entering your course of profession, instruction in practical Phrenology? I would like to become a member of your class this winter, but have acquired but little knowledge of the subject as yet father of your children. Smoking and from bocks, though I have a strong intui chewing almost inevitably lead to drinktive tendency to the subject, and do not intend to stop short of a thorough knowling, in which there is no safety. edge of the science.

As a general reply to all such inquiries, TRAVELER. -The cost of

we may remark that we tender a cordial welcome to all who are honest and intelligent, with a fair education and good common sense, who wish to become practical teachers and disseminators of the great truths of Phrenology and Physiology as

traveling from New York to San Francisco depends much on the route taken. The first-class fare on the steamers running to Panama is about $250. The second-class charges are about thirty per cent. less. The difference between first-class and

second-class charges consists chiefly in the state-room accommodations, the second-class passenger being furnished a much inferior place to "bunk" in during the passage.

LOGARITHMS. For a full consideration of these important aids in some departments of calculation, we refer you to "Loomis' Tablets of Logarithms," price, $1 50.

of the above would perform miracles, or answer the purposes of a thousand-dollar compound instrument. It is very much with the microscope makers as with others; each, no doubt, intends to give the money's worth, less cost for advertis ing, and a living profit. One may answer one purpose, another a different purpose, while all may at least be amusing and in

structive. It is a lesson to learn, that the miscroscope reveals that which the unaided

A. R. R., of Lehigh Co., eye could never behold. So of the telescope.

did not give her address. On its receipt we will write her.

MORE ABOUT TEN-PENNY NAILS.-In the November number of the

A. P. J. you ask about the ten-penny nail," and call for a "solution." Perhaps I can answer. About twenty-five years ago, while engaged in missionary work in this Western country-Michigan-I called on two families who were nailers, men, women, and children: and they had brought with them from the "Old Country" their nail-making machine. The machine consisted of a frame-work and floor about seven feet by five, on which was a bellows, fire-place, anvil, rod-cutter, header, seat, etc. The nailer sat at his work, everything within his reach, drove the bellows and header with his feet, and the hammer, rod, etc., with his hands.

Ans. There are two degrees which are usually conferred by colleges on the respective students meriting them at the close of the prescribed courses of study. These are Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science. Bachelor of Arts is accorded to the student who has passed successfully through the departments of English Literature, Science, and the Classics. Bachelor of Science is awarded to him who has completed the prescribed course in English Literature and Science. Master of Arts is called a degree in course, and is conferred three or more years after a student has For my gratification one of the ladies graduated as an A.B., provided that he kindled the fire, mounted her seat, and has pursued some scientific or learned pro-wrought specimen nails for me; first the fession, and can satisfactorily respond to such interrogatories as may be proposed to him. The degree B.S. does not entitle the possessor to that of A.M. Bachelor of Literature is merely complimentary.

The degree of LL.D. is honorary, and is frequently conferred on eminent men not lawyers.

The text-books mentioned are all well

adapted to your purpose. Arnold's Greek series is an excellent one for the student. Day's Analytical Geometry is good, and probably as clear in its elucidations as any published.

FRENCH, GERMAN, ITALIAN. --The following are excellent text-books in these languages, and may be procured through us at prices annexed: In French, | Ollendorff's Grammar, $2; De Fivas'French Reader, $1 10; Surenne's F. Dictionary, $1 75; Surenne's F. Manual, $1 90. In German, Ahn's Method, $1 40; Heidenreich's German Reader, $1 10; Adler's Pocket G. Dictionary, $3 25. In Italian, Fontana's Grammar, $2: Foresti's I. Extracts, $2; Meadows' I. Dictionary. $2.75.

THE VOICE.-Please inform me how I can strengthen a weak voice. My parents both have strong voices, and I see no reason why I should not be equally favored in that respect.

Ans. Seek to maintain good general health, avoid spices and all heating condiments, avoid tobacco, avoid confined and impure air, especially at night, stand erect, expand the chest, and learn to use the vocal apparatus with distinctness and deliberation, and the voice will become stronger. We have a little work entitled "The Human Voice; its Right Management in Reading, Speaking, and Debating," which it would do you good to read. Price by mail, 50 cents.

THE DOLLAR MICROSCOPE,

THE NOVELTY MICROSCOPE, THE CRAIG

MICROSCOPE, which is best? Are they worth what they cost?

Ans. We have seen testimonials from such authorities as the Scientific American, religious newspapers, and from numerous private letters. We have also seen criticisms, in which it was alleged that neither

three-penny, then the four-penny, sixpenny, eight-penny, ten-penny, twelvepenny, and twenty-penny. "This is the way, sir," she said, "that we made or wrought nails years ago in the Old Country.' We made them, and they were sold at so much per hundred. These little fellows are lighter and shorter, and they were made and sold as three-penny (per 100) nails; and these longer and stouter, at twenty-pennies per 100, and so with all

SEVERAL Answers are left

over for want of room.

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"SAINTS AND SINNERS."The articles published under the above title in our November and December numbers were written by our old correspondent and contributor A. A. G. Readers will judge for themselves the merit of this writer's productions. He gives us the first installment of "The Uses of Culture" in our present number.