N' difofii_.' S'Alt. SMILES. Industtial Biography. Iron-work ers and Tool-makers. By Saml. Smiles, author,of Self-help, Life of George Steph enson, &,c. Author's Edition. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. 10 mo, pp. 410. With an Index. Price $1,25. Philadel- phia: For sale by J. B. Lippincott & Co. We have here the continuation of a series of works designed to do justice to a class of men whom the historian has been too prone hitherto, to overlook. Mr. Smiles has thoroughly studied his subect, has gathered his materials from original and trustworthy sources, and has inwoven them with valuable dis cussions on the more general aspects of the field in which the various charac ters achieved their triumphs. His sub jects are : Iron and Civilization; Be ginning of the Iron Manufacture in Britain ; Iron Smelting by pit coal, Dud Dudley; Andrew Yarranton; Coalbrookdale Iron-works, the Darbys and Reynoldses; Invention of Cast=steel, Benjamin Huntsman; The Inventions of Henry Cort ; The Scotch Iron Manu facture, Roebuck, Mushet ; Invention of the Hot Blast, J. B. Neilson ; Me chanical Inventions and Inventors; Joseph Bramah ; Henry Maudslay ; Joseph Clement; Fox of Derby, Mur ray of Leeds, Roberts & Whitworth of Manchester; James Nasmyth ; William Fairbairn. This is a rich list, and will be found to go over the ground and lay bare the springs of much of the mate rial progress of modern civilization. It contains much to quicken all true work ers in any sphere, and to encourage, by examples of indomitable energy and perseverance, all who are on the point of succumbing to the difficulties of their station or their enterprises. COUNSEL' AND Couroar, spoken from a City Pulpit. By the author of Recreations of a Country Parson. Boston : Ticknor &- Fields. 16 mo. pp. 31L Price $1,50. For sale by J. B. Lippincott & Co. The author of these discourses is al ready most favorably known to the pub lic as the " Country Parson," who wrote himself into fame and into a - "" city pul pit" by his " Recreations" in Fraser's Magazine; Rev. A. K. H. Boyd, of the - Established Church of Scotland. The volume before us shows the graceful, careful writer, the genial, kindly, sym pathising friend, and the believer en joying and the preacher presenting rather the sunnier aspects of his faith, than grappling with its profound bear ings, and &using the conscience of the hearer. The views presented are doc trinally correct, but commended with winning sweetness and happy modes of illustration that take away all appear ance of harshness and formality. The facile essayist is skilfully blended with the preacher. An interesting and char acteristic essay, on the "Close of Holi day Time, with Some Thoughts on Pulpits," introduces the sermons; from which we must quote a single sentence : "The man who has in him the spirit and making of the preacher, could not be kept out of the pulpit." PAMPHLETS AND MAGAZINES THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY for April, is the first number for some months that has seemed to us worthy of an extended notice. We have rarely seen a better one, with so many articles of decided and nearly equal merit. Fighting Facts for Fogies, is a very un couth title to a very instructive, reada ble article; showing how unfounded is the prejudice against old or middle aged generals. The writer's range is over the entire field of written history, with the exception of the Old Testament, where be would have found some co gent facts for his purpose. The read•3r will be astounded to learn how fre quently' the fate of the world has been decided—so far as great battles decided it—by quite old men. Miltiades in Greece; Fabius in Rome, nearly eighty when he baffled young Hannibal; Cesar who crossed the Rubicon at fifty-one; are examples in ancient history; while " in modern days the number of old generals who have gained great battles is large, far larger than the number of young generals of the highest class." Turenne's greatest, campaigns were his last, begun at sixty-two; Alva went to the Netherlands at sixty-two and conquered Portugal at seventy-four; Pizarro con quered Peru at sixty; Marshall Radetz ky was eighty-two when in 1848 he suc cessfully undertook the suppression of rebellion against Austria; Cromwell was forty-four at the commencement of his military career ; Marlborough was fifty-two when he commenced his splen did campaigns against Louis XIV, en joying ten years of uninterrupted victo ries. Wellington was forty-six at Waterloo;, and Bluecher was seventy two when he brought up his fifty thou sand .Prussians and decided the day against the French. The Russian Snwaroff who beat Napoleonis generals in Italy, was seventy, and Hutursoff, who destroyed his, army in Russia, was sixty; so that while Napoleon is usually regarded as a trium.phant example of the superiority of youth and general obi Ac was overthrown by men old enough to be his father and grandfa ther. Our own Washington was fifty at Yorktown, and Rochambeau who helped him was fifty-six. General Jackson - was nearly forty-eight _in Louisiana, and General Scott was sixty when he started on his triumphal march from Vera Cruz to Mexico.— General Taylor was two years his se nior. The generals in the present war are just about in the prime of life. General Grant is forty-two, General Meade forty-eight, Banks, Hooker, Burnside, Rosecrans, Sickles, the two Shermans, McDowell, Pope, Halleck, range from forty to forty-eight; Banks, the most energetic, perhaps, of all, be ing forty-eight. General Lyon was forty-two, General _Kearney forty seven. General A. S. Johnston, the ablest of rebel generals, fell at Shiloh, aged forty-nine. Lee, who is regarded by many as having shown the greatest military capacity on either side, is about fifty-six. While the " the young chief tain," whose extraordinary tardiness and excessive caution have cost us so incalculably and brought us little else but the unsatisfactory victory of Antie tam, was thirty-five when summoned to Washington. The aged may take heart. The greatest merely human deeds of the world's history, were performed af ter the actors had got to the downhill side of life. The Wreck of Rivermouth,, is a fine poem in ballad style, founded on an in cident in colonial times. The School master's Story is a charming love tale, ingenious,pure and healthful: Pictor Ig flatus, is the resurrection to public no tice of an eccentric genius who wrote startling poetry and engraved for the London booksellers, and was the com panion of Flaxman and Fuseli, a hun dred years ago in London—more curious than valuable. Mrs. Stowe, who ab surdly persists in using a masculine nom de plume, though every body knows " Christopher Crowfield" to be a wo man, continues her valuable series of House and Home Papers, the subject at this time being The Econornyof the Beau tiful, a very suggestive, comforting es say to people With more culture than wealth. The " Black Preacher," unlike a good deal of the poetry current in the "Atlantic," is better in the moral pur pose than in the artistic execution. Fouquet the Manificent is a leaf from French history that should be read be side that of , Cardinal Woolsey, in. En glish, both being bold comments of Pro vidence on the favorite text of Ecclesias tics. Among the _Mormons, is an admira ble account of a visit to these repulsive people, from one who, with a just indig nation against their crime, combined a seemingly calm and impartial judgment, and who determined to recognize and acknowledge everything really com mendable among them ' . B e shows their disloyalty to the Union, their complicity with the murder of emi grants across the plains, their practice of assassinating renegades from their own number, the complete despotism of Brigham Young over the community, and utter absence of anything like a re publican form of government. His con viction is, that with the death of. Brig ham, now nearly seventy years old, the whole Mormon system will fall inevita bly to pieces. Several factions are al ready in existence, restrained from open rupture by his influence. A valuable part of this paper, is the exceedingly graphic description of the natural fea tures of the Rocky Mountain district, and especially of the power of the wind in cutting the sand bluffs into their gro tesque and artificial-seeming-forms. On Picket Duty is ft fine poem . . We have not read Dr. Holmes's article, Our Pro gessive Independence, pronunced good by competent critics, but this number in cluding book notices, has presented no objectionable line to our eyes, and is full of valuable and suggestive as well as finely written pieces. THE CONTINENTAL MONTHLY for April, contains Sir Charles Lyell on the Antiquity of Man, by a [deposed (?)] Presbyterian clergyman. Aenone. The Great Lakes to. St. Paul. Our Govern raent and the Blacks. Was he Success ful? by Kimball. Benedict and the Benedictines, by Ph. Schaff, D. D., &c. John F. Trow, New York. ANNUAL REPORT of the Managers of the Western Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane; for 1863. FORTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT of the American Colonization Society. Washington, D. C., 1864. TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT Of the French Canadian Missionary So ciety; January. 28, 1864. Montreal. LITTELL'S LIVING AGE for March 26, completes the eightieth volume. BIBLE VIEW OF SLAVERY, OT Bishop Hopkins reviewed by a layman. Co pies may be had at the Union League House. ATRIOULTURAL COLLEGE OF lOWA. Fifth Annual Report of the Secretary of the lowa State Agricultural Society to the General Assembly of lowa, Feb ruary, 1864. This is a document of eighty-eight octavo pages, presenting the condition anduse made of the College Fund--there PHILAD LPHI THE APRIL 7 1864-.., is no college, only a farm of 600 acres as yet, together with a very full account of the agricultural interests of the State during the year. It is a document of great value and well calculated to foster that fundamental branch of industry. We are indebted to Rev. Thompson Bird, of Des Moines, for a copy. THE MONTHLIES. GOREY'S LADIES' BOOK for April LADY'S FRIEND ARTHUR'S ROME MAGAZINE STUDENT AND SCHOOLMATE, Boston The Revival is a weekly London pa per which originated in the great re ligious excitement of 1858 and was designed especially to communicate intelligence of the movement. Whether from the dearth of such matter which now, in comparison at least with that blessed era, prevails, or from some other cause, it has become the advo cate, says, the TVeekly Review, of the pe culiar views regarding the Saviour's sec ond advent, known as " pre-millenarian ism." The Review complains of the tone of assumption pervading its leading ar ticles. "It would seem that the propa gation of these views is actually to be regarded as The Revival." The Edinburgh Witness, a weekly pa per in the interest of the Free church, and famous as founded and edited with great ability by Hugh Miller to the time of his death, has become extinct, within eight years after the death of its founder. It opposed Presbyterian Un ion and was wearisomely anti-papal. It tried to carry Hugh Miller's princi ples without his genius and great name to leaven them—though-at this stage of ecclesiastical movements even those talismans of success would have been powerless in the face of the overwhelm ing movetnents towards union. Rev. Dr. Cummings' new serial; Lira AND LESSONS OF OUR LORD; has made its appearance in London. Three parts have been issued. They are well spoken of, both as to manner and matter. PULPIT ELOQUENCE OF ITALY; [TRANSLATED PROM' . A GERMAN RELIGIOUS There is no connection necessarily between public worship and preaching among the 'Roman Catholics of Italy.' Sometimes a mass precedes or follows, but often the sermon stands entirely iso lated, without liturgy or public prayer. The address : " 0 signori" commences and the " Amen" concludes the whole service. Regular preaching is common in very few churches, except that in seasons of fast, many churches hay.e daily sermons. It is a matter. of pride for the Orders to put forth their best orators at these times; the brethren are summoned from bear" and far. Tlietie men become remarkably fluent and ready, as they preach the same dis courses year after year. Saints' days, too, furnish them topics drawn from the marvellous histories of these char acters. 'From Christmas to Easter the Jesuits preach in all the languages of Europe, in the Church of St. Andrea della Valle, at Rome. Generally the preacher begins by a prayer before the crucifix at the rails, and then bows low in every direction to the congregation. An uncommon degree of animation characterizes 'all Italian preachers. The channel is wide enough to allow a constant movement to and fro. Hand and voice, with many preachers, are in a continuous tremoli. A Capuchin in Naples, who was describ ing envy under the figure of a monster, with wildly rolling eyes, clenched fin gers, and body all drawn up, represent ed. the creature in pantomine to his hearers, and indicated the moment when the monster seized his prey, by a spring from one side of the chancel to the other. In like manner he represented the lance which should have pierded the heart of David, as energetically as if he held the weapon in his hand. Yetone soon learns to passthese mere ex ternals by and to recognize many proofs of an overpowering eloquence—not how ever of a sacred eloquence. As the sermon fails to reach the deeps of the human heart to reveal the soul's grief and longing, so it does not sink into the depths of the life of Je=us, to draw at the fountain all power of redemption and sanctification. There is every week a sermon by the Capuchins, in that colossal wonder and monument of Roman art—the Colos seum. Going thither at one time with great expectations, -we found only a mean monk, putting himself to great pains and, using endless tautologies to show the glory of the marriage- of Joseph and Mary. "A very extraordi nary marriage this, between the purest of all youth, Joseph, and the purest of all- maidens, Mary; for Joseph, the purest of- all youth, had, like Mary, the purest of all maidens, taken the vow of purity; and upon the whole earth, was there no solitary youth purer than Joseph, and no solitary maiden purer than the most holy virgin." With such endless repetitions he went on, and closed his sermon, by admonishing his hearers, that, since they could- not be saved without the intercession of Joseph and Mary, they should make every ef fort to attain the same purity, and, thus win the favor of the sainted pair. The Capuchin took the crucifix from the chancel, handed it to one of the hro- LITERARY ITEMS PERIODICAL.) therhood to carry before the procession, others followed with lanterns in their hands and the veiled company departed, chanting, from the place. Another held up to his hearers - the levity, with which, for the sake of a , few cents, they neglected the mass. "If your relatives are sick you run to a physician and spend entire scudi ; but to ,ransom the souls of your loved ones from the dreadful fire of purgatory, you think a few pauls too many. 0 wh.athlindness l'' It is utterly incredi ble how barren of thought many of these'preachers are. At Naples in the Church of St. Maria del Carmine, we heard a sermon on the text : A sinner r is worse than a stone, a beast, or the devil. The mode of proof was in this wise : When God created the earth, he called upon the rooks to gather them selvps into hills, and the rocks obeyed his ivoice. But man, whom God also callg, obeys not; . ergo, he is worse than a stone. . The dog follows his master's call.. But man follows not the call of God his master; ergo he is worse than i a bast. The devil when he opposes God harms nobody but himself. But raaniinvolves himself and his associates inin. Ergo, man is worse than a 'ston , a beast or the devil. Quod erat dent stranduin. The audience—mostly I . lazzfroni and fishermen—could advance nothtng against the proof. In' ome especially, preaching serves fora'..° e exaltation of Mary and the Saiii, #, the recommending of the con fessin and the praise of the priesthood. On his ,last topic the declamations t , some imes border on sheer insanity. A Je nit whom we heard, attempted to shovi that the priest, at the moment of conse rating the.elements was equal to God,, - ea stood even above God, because he errated God ! [2 These. 2 : 4.] An other complained of the low estimate held if the priestly order. " .11," said he; ifi. I the vigor of health you despise the p J ests, think of the hour of death When you lie helpless on your beds witho it .comfort or peace.' Who can help Jou then ? None but the priest, who forgives your sins, softens the pains of the flaming fire and opens the gate . of he -en to your soul." Ap ominent place in preaching is °c ouple. \. by the argument against Pro tests ttsm. A Roman preacher accused , the 4 accursed heretics" of inducing the . Cath lies in his native city, Bologna, by ors of:money and bread to, em , v - brace ' a godless creed of Protestant ism.( "Ify poor native 'city!" heex , claimed, " that halt seen so many saints within thy walls, and art now given up to the bloodthirsty rage of Bible-ped dling wolies. 0 fortunate, happy Ro mans, whom 'this pestilence may not reach ! who have the most sacred virgin to pray for you and help you in 'all need." A Jesuit who preached upon the text: "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last," and. Who endeaVored to prove that the morality, of Chilst was more excellent than that of all other religions,drew the foll O wing ingenious parallels : "You have heard of the high morality of Plato. But in a .dialogue called ' The State,'he 'recommends a plurality of wives. Mo hammed founded a new religion, but he allowed polygamy. You know that. Luther and Calvin undertook to lc:Rind a new religion, but they fell into such dreadful immoralities that '.I may not so mue.h.a,s name them in your presence." Still another,preaching in Passion-week, ascrised the mystic sufferings of Christ, to his grief at the existence of Protest antism. In Naples, the existence of three Evangelical Italian Churches drives them beyond all bounds in their anti-Protestant polemics. A Capuchin preaching with great eloquence in a crowded cathedral of that city, on "Woman," declared that fornication and adultery were' protected by the laws of Protestant States. In another sermon he, declared it was not only a frequent but a common thing in Eng land, for parents to kill their children and dispose of the bodies for anatomi cal uses. Incredible as the story was, it roused the superstitious females of Naples—who credit the incredible most readily—to fanaticism. A very interesting sermon was preach ed by the same man upon " The neces sity of works to Salvation." [CONCLUDED IN OUR NEXT.] REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON UNION. BETWEEN TIIE FREE AND UNITED PRESBY- TERIAN CHURCHES At the quarterly meeting of the Free Church Assembly held in March, Dr. Buchanan read the following interim report of the Committee on Union, ap pointed by the Assembly of 1863. In giving in the report Dr. Buchanan stated that it would not at the present stage be competent for the Commission to discuss its terms : The Committee of the Free Church, and the Committee of the United Presby terian Church, have been engaged in considering the question of the relation of the Civil Magistrate to Religion and the Church. Etie I. With reference to that question, the following are the Articles of Agree- merit beiween the two Committees : 1., That civil government is an ordi nance of God for His own glory and . the public, good; that to the Lord Jesus Christ, is given all power in heaven and on earth; and that magistrates, as Well as other Men, are under obligation to submit themselves to Him, and to regu late their conduct, in their several places and relations, by His Word. 11. That the civil magistrate ought to further the interests of the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ among his sub jects, in every way consistent with its spirit and enactments; and to be ruled by it in the making of laws, the admin istration of justice, the swearing of oaths, and other matters of civil juris diction. 111.. That, while it is the_ duty of the civil magistrate to embrace and profess the Christian religion, it is not his prov ince to impose a creed or a form of wor ship upon his subjects, or to interfere with that government which the Lord lesus has appointed in His Charon, in the hands of church officers—it being the exclusive prerogative of the Lord Jesus to rule in matters of faith and worship, and that the civil magistrate is not to further the interests of religion by means inconsistent with its spirit and enactments, which disclaim and prohibit all persecution. IF. That marriage, the 'Sabbath, and the appointment of days of national humiliation and thanksgiving, are prac tical instances to which these principles apply. (1.) In regard to marriage, the civil magistrate may and ought to frame his marriage laws according to the rule of the Divine Word. (2.) In regard to the Sabbath, the civil magistrate, recog nizing its perpetual Obligation according to the rule_of the Divine Word, espe cially as contained in the original institu tion of the Sabbath,, in the Fourth Com mandment, and in the teaching and: ex ample of our Lord and His Apostles, and in its inestimable value many ways to human society, may and ought, in his administration, to respect its sacred character, to legislate in the matter of its outward observance, and to protect the people in the enjoyment of the privi lege of resting from their week-day. oc cupations, and devoting the whole day, as they may see fit, to the public and private exercises of Divine worship. (3.) The civil magistrate may, and .on suitable occasions ought to, appoint days on which his subjects shall be l in vited to engage in acts of humiliation or of thanksgiving: but without authoiita tively prescribing or enforcing any special form of religious service,' or otherwise interposing his authority be yond securing to them the opportunity of exercising their free discretion for these purposes. Y. That the Church and the State, being ordinances of God distinct Nom each other, theY,are capable of , eAst)ng without either of them intruding into the proper , province of the other, (i.nd. ought not so to intrude. Brastianisu premacy of the State over the Church, and anti-Christian domination of the church over the State, ought to be Con demned ; and all schethes of connexion involving or tending to either are, there fore, to be avoided. The church has a spiritual authority over such of the sub jects and rulers of earthly kingdoms as are in her communion, and the civil powers have the same secular authority over the members and office-bearers of the church as, over the rest of their sub jects. Bat the Church has no power over earthly kingdoms in their collective and civil capacity, nor have they any power over her as a church. VI. That, though thus distinct, the Church and State owe mutual duties, to each other, and, acting according to their respective spheres, may be signally subservient to each others welfare. ; IL With reference to the same question, the following aro statements of dis tinctive principles about which the two Committees differ : STATEMENTS OE FREE CHURCH COMMITTEE I. That while the civil magistrate mast not so sustain himself a public judge of true or false religion as to dic tate to his subjects in matters of faith, and has no authority in spiritual things, yet, owning obligation to Christ, he may lawfully acknowledge, as being in accor dance with the Word of God, the creed and jurisdiction of the church. As a further act of homage to Christ, it is his duty, when necessary or expedient, to employ the national resources in aid of the Church,provided always that in doing SO ) while reserving to himself full con trol over the temporalities, which are his own gift, he abstain from all authori tative interference in the internal gov ernment of the Church. And while the Church must ever maintain the essential and perpetual obligation which Christ has laid on all His people to support and extend his Church by freewill offerings, yet in entire consistency with said obli gation, the church may lawfully accept aid from the civil magistrate when her spiri- ' teal independence is preserved entire. But it must always be a question to be judged of; according to times and cir cumstances, whether or not such aid ought to be given by the civil magis trate, as well as whether or not it ought to be accepted by the church. And the question must,. in every instance, be decided by each of the two parties judg ing for itself, on its own responsibility. If. It follows from the preceding Ar ticles, that any branch of the Christian Church consenting to be in alliance with the State, and to accept its aid, upon the condition of being subject to the authori tative control of the State or its Courts in spiritual matters—or continuing in such connection with the State as in voles such subjection—must be, held to be so far unfaithful to the Lord Jesus Christ as King and Head of His Church. And upon this ground, in accordance with the history and constitutional principles of the church of Scotland, a protest is to be maintained against the present Establishment in Scotland. STATEMENTS OP UNITED PRESBYTERIAN COMMITTEE 1. That inasmuch as the civil magis trate has no authority in spiritual things, and as the employment of force in such matters is opposed to the spirit and. precepts of Christianity, it is not within his province to legislate as to what is true - in religion; to prescribe a creed or form of worship to his subjecta, or to endow the church from national resour ces; that Jesus Christ, as sole King and Head of His Church, has enjoined upon His people to provide for maintaining and extending it by freewill offerings; that this being Christ's ordinance, it ex cludes State aid for these purposes; and that adherence to it is the true safeguard of the Church's independence. 11. That the United Presbyterian Church, without requiring from her members any approval of the steps of procedure by their fathers, or interfer ing with the, rights of private judgment in reference to them, are united in re garding as still - valid the reasons on which they have hitherto maintained their state of secession and separation from the judicatories of the Established Church, as expressed in the authorized documents of the respective bodies of which the United Presbyterian Church is formed—and in maintaining the law fulness and obligation of separation from ecclesiastical bodies in which dan gerous error is tolerated, or the disci pline of the church or the rights of her ministry or members are disregarded. Moreover, though uniformity of opin ion with respect to civil establishments of religion is not a term of communion in the United Presbyterian Church, yet the views on this subject held, and univer sally acted on, are, opposed to these in stitutions; and the statements set forth in theseloistinctive Articles are regarded by that Church as a protest against the Church Establishment in Scotland. OIEURCH BUTTES. Before we enter the City of the Saints, let me briefly describe the great est,-not merely of the architectural cu< riosities, but, in my opinion, the great est natural curiosity of arty kind which I have ever, seen or heard of. They are situated a short distance from Fort Bridger.;the overland road passes by their sie. They consist of a sand-stone bluff, reddish-brown in color, rising with the abruptness of a pile of masonry fromthe perfectly level plain, carved along its perpendicular face into a series of partially connected religious edifices, the most remarkable of which is a cathedral as colossal as St. Peter's, and completely relieved from the bluff on all sides save the rear, where a portico joins it with the main precipice. The perfect symmetry of 'this marvellous structure would ravish Michel Angelo. So far from requiring an effort of imagination to recognize the propriety of its name, this church almost staggers= belief in the unassisted naturalness of its architecture. It be longs to a style entirely its own. Its main and lower portion is not divided into nave and transept, but seems like a system of huge semi-cylinders erected on their bases, and united with re-en trant angles, their convex surfaces to ward us, so that the ground-plan might be called a species of quatre-foil. In each of the convex faces is an admi rably, proportioned door-way, a Gothic arch with deep-carved and elaborately fretted mouldings, so wonderfully per fect in its imitation that you almost feel like knocking for admittance, se cure of an entrance, did you only know the " Open sesame." Between and be hind the doors, alternating with flying buttresses, are a series of deep-niched windows, set with grotesque statues, varying from the pigmy to the colossal size, representing demons rather than saints, though some of the figures are costumed in the style of religious art, with flowing sacerdotal garments. The structure terminates above in a double dome, whose -figure may be im agined by supposing a small acorn set on the truncated top of a large one, (the horizontal diameter of both being considerably longer in proportion to the perpendicular than is common with that fruit,) and each of these domes is surrounded by a row of prism-shaped pillars, half column, half buttress in their effect, somewhat similar to the exquisite columnar entourage of the cen tral cylinder of the leaning tower of Pisa. The result of this arrangement is an aerial, yet massive beauty, without parallel in the architecture of the world. I have not conveyed to any mind an idea -of the grandeur of this pile, nor could I, even with the assistance of a diagram. I can only say that the Ca thedral Buttes are a lesson for the ar chitects of all Christendom,—a purely novel and original creation, of such marvellous beauty that Bierstadt and I simultaneously exclaimed,—"-Oh that the master-buikiers of the world could come here for a single day. I The re sult would be an entirely new style of architectare,—an American school, as distinct from all the rest as the lonic from the Gothic or Byzantine." If they could come the art of building would have a regeneration. "Amazing" is the only word for this glorious work of _Na ture. I could have bowed down with awe and prayed at one of its vast, in imitable door-ways, but that the mys tery of its creation, and the grotesque ness of even its most glorious statues, made one half dread lest it were some temple built by demon-hands for the worship of the Lord of Hell, and sealed in the stone-dream of petrification, with its priests struck dumb within it, by the hand of God, to wait the judgment of Elbis and the earthquake's of the Last Day. Atlantic Monthly. Or TEN lepers, only one returned to give thanks, which shows, that by na• ture, without grace, overswaying us e it is ten to one if we be thankful,—.Thona _ Fuller. 107
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