""; iottliantratz. THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. The London Review says of the recently published history of explorations in search of the source of the Nile, by Samuel White Baker : Mr. Baker's work 's full of interest—in parts, profoundly exciting; the pictures suggested, rather than described, are often wild in the extreme, while the narrative of personal suffering has been very seldom paralleled in the annals of travel. It must be observed, moreover, that Mr. Baker has not labored and endured in vain, since he has discovered one of the most extraordina ry lakes hitherto known to exist in Africa Having stated thus much, which we do with the greatest plep sure, we feel bound to add that, in imagining he has solved 'the problem of the Nile—that is, found the spot at which its mysterious head emerges from the earth—he is cherishing a mere delusion. The source of the Nile is at this moment as little known as it was in the time of Julius emu, and it almost Surpasses oar comprehension how a traveler so intel ligent and so well-informed as Mr. Baker should fail to be unconscious of this. To make use of a common expression, Mr. Ba ker and all other travelers in Central Afri ca have been simply beating about the wrong bush, while the bird they are in search of lies hidden far off in another. Yet Mr. Baker, Captain Speke, and Cap tain Burton, may be almost said to have touched the great river with their finger, and to have looked wistfully in the direc tion from which, .through.utterly unknown lands, it comes rolling toward the Victoria Nyanza, into which it flows in a deep flood two hundred and forty feet in breadth, and with a current of four miles an hour. This, is the Nile whose source it is necessary to discover—a thing which no one has yet done or even attempted; but, until this shall be done, it will be wrong to take credit among civilized nations for having thiown light upon a subject which philosophers and conquerors have 'desired to illnminath in vain. Bruce, Burton, Speke, Grant, Baker, have deserved well of the public for explor ing new regions, and adding largely to our geographical knowledge; but, in spite of their efforts, old Nile keeps his secret still, his source being a virgin spring, of whose waters no civilized ' man has yet tasted. The Kitangule rises far away toward the southwest, and its course is known to the natives for eighteen days' journey befure it reaches the lake. How much. farther its stream must be followed ere the lake or tarn is reached in the Blue Mountains, whose lofty summits, from the shores of the Nyan za, may be dimly discerned by the teloscope in the southwest, no one can decide, but wherever this tarn may be, that is the source of the Nile. We say this under the impression that the accounts which former travelers have given are correct. There may, however, be other rivets, still larger than the Kitangule, falling into the Victo ria Nyanza, both from the east, and west, and It will be necessary to trace every one of these to its well-spiting before we can be said to have cleared up the mystery which for three thousand years has defied the' learning, the enterprise, and the energy of man. To return, however, to the Kitan gule ; after pursuing a northeasterly coarse for thirty-five or forty days,it falls into the Tictoria Nyanza, which it traverses in part, as the Rhone does the Lake of Geneva; it then, through a gap in the rooks, breaks forth from the lake, and pushes its way through a channel honestly marked in parts with dots in the maps, to intimate that no one has followed its current the whole way. It may be assumed to be the same river' which is again fallen in with farther on, and which flows into the Albert Nyanza; but beyond this the uncertainty increases. No doubt Mr. Baker was told of ,a stream which issued from the lake, and this stream he fairly enough infers to, be the White Nile; but before anything is positively stated about that river, much research and investigation will be needed. If Great Britain should think it worth while, the only plan for ensuring success would be to appbint a coliniission of travelers--ethnolo gists, geographers, geologists, botanists, photographers—who should survey the whole lake-region of. Central Africa, and be accompanied by a military escort suffi ciently strong to remove from the explorers all idea of danger. A small screw steamer should be taken, and put togther on the lakes one after another, So that the whole of their shores might be examined and de scribed. On the return of these com missions, after completing their labors, we might truly be said to have 'discov ered the sources of the Nile—but not till then. One practice of our travelers we cannot sufficiently condemn—we mean that of imposing English names on African rivers, lakes, mountains and falls. Why should the White Nile forfeit its ancient appella tion, and be lost to geography by being transformed • into the Somerset ? What had Lord Ripon or Sir Roderick Murchison to du with the Nilotic cataracts, that we should find their names asssociated with that of Mumbo Jumbo in the Mountains of the Moon ? What bas the Queen of these realms to do with one of the great lakes, or, her lamented consort with the other ? Our' courtier travelers forget themselves when they revolutionize geography .after this fashion. If we had conquered the country and converted it into a colony, such a prac tice might be tolerable; but, as the case now stands, it is altogether absurd, and we trust that, through reverence for science, geographers will firmly set their faces against so incongruous a mixture of names. Should foreign travelers follow the example set them by our countrymen, what a strange aspect would the surface of Africa soon present, studded with Danish, Swedish, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portu guese, and Greek names, jumbled up' with negro appellations, unpronounceable by the European tongue, and with the grand no-' menolature of the Koran ! Having made BALLARD'S WORD NATIONAL SHOE STORE. ONE PRIOR these remarks—which apply to the pro eeedings of nearly all recent" travelers, who, considering their strong propensity to transform everything, may deserve our gratitude for not obliterating Cairo and Damascus from the map of the world, and calling one Hutchison and the other Mur chison towns—we go on to observe that, viewed merely as a book of travels, Mr. Baker's work is entitled to high praise. It would be difficult to exaggerate the intre pidity displayed both by him and his wife, who may truly be regarded as one of the most unflinching and devoted of her sex. It is impossible to contemplate without strong sympathy, not the perils she- encountered, which we estimate as nothing, but the mis eries from fever, from ague, from hunger, from thirst—above all, from the effects of sun-stroke, which, nearly put, a period to her existence in the most odious solitudes on the'surface of this globe. The portions 'Of Mr. Biker's book in which these-trials are described may be reg,arded as among the most touching passages ..f a traveler's autobiography to be found iu any language. He enters into the details like a man; and, though everything is drawn with a delicate and refined hand, he places himself before you, sitting by his wife's bedside, with the frankness of a private revelation. Under, a tree, or in some wretched hut in a wild African forest, enveloped in thick darkness, with the howl of the jaeltal breaking now and then upon the ear, the husband and wife, fever-stricken, half-famished, and surround ed by the most grovelling and, beastial of savages, pass the livelong night, one in, deep agony; the other in utter unconscious ness. No one who has any feelings to be moved can read Mr. Baker's narrative without extending to him and his noble wife the warmest sympathy. -Sometimes as we read, we : regret that a delicate woman should have been exposed, though by her own choice, to so rude a trial of love; but, thioughout life, the remembrance of those hours must be her reward, and her husband's too. The fame arising from scientific discoveries, from passing over untrodden ground, from pursuing, through• unknown regions, the, course of a ,mighty river, is doubtless ,sweet; but the satisfac tion of sharing and reaping that fame with a true and heroic wife, must be a thousand times sweeter. It would be absurd to reproach Mr. Ba ker for not performing impossibilities : we repeat that he has accomplished more than it falls to the lot of a traveler to accomplish once in a thousand years; but he should be careful that he does not claim too much. The discovery of the source, or sources, of the Nile remains to be achieved by some future explorer, more fortunate, though not more bold or persevering, and, we may add, cherishing juster notions of what the source of a river is. It may be all very well to soothe the pangs of disappointment by calling such a river as the Kitangule an aii uent of the Victoria Nyanza; it is such an affluent as the Rhone is to the Lake of Geneva, and as other rivers may be to the Albert Nyanza, of which Mr. Baker has only obtained a glimpse That lake, for aught that is hitherto known, may rival in dimensions the Caspian Sea, and be red by one river, among many others, thrice as large as the Kitangule, which may be pro nounced, as soon as• seen, to be the real Nile. This, we say, may or may, not prove to be the case. If it be, then the Kitan gule loses its claim to be any other than an affluent of the Nile. If it be not, to the Kitangule itself belongs the name of Nile, and the discoverer of its source will be the solver of the great geographical problem of Africa. STRAUSS'S NEW LIFE OF CHRIST. It must, indeed, be admitted that the new work is in many respects inferior to the old, less dignified in' style, less elevated in tone, in form less scholarly, inspirit less manly. • 'Almost, all that is good inthe new is derived from the old; but there is much that is good, or at least respectable and presentable, in the old which we ,MiSt3 in the mew. The truth is, though Dr. Straus is profoundly unconscious of the fact, he has been somewhat soured by the success of Renan, and the noise made about a, book which he saw to be, in, coniparison with his own, a flimsy performance. He forni ally extends the hand' of fellowship to ; the Frank, but he whiffs aside his' theory of the-raising of Lazarus with 'the • air of 'a gruff schoolmaster putting away theslov,enly thesis of a schoolboy; and he hardly: dis guises his contempt for the French' Senti mentality to which he traces that accept ance of the Gospel of John as historical, which he pronounces the organic fault of. Renan's book.- One cannot help thinking of the relation between Strauss and Renan as somewhat similar .to that described by Carlyle as subsisting between Frederick William of Prussia and George 11. of Eng land : the former a man of parts, but un couth and heavy-footed; the other a pretty. gentleman, of high, airy ways, and with much lace and bedizennient upon him, but at bottom a far lighter article. I hope it is not disrespectful to the Herr Professor, but my imagination insists obstinately on representing him under the similitude of a wild boar of the German 'woods, strong tusked, indomitable, grubbing at the roots of the forest oaks, looking up; now and then, with a jerky grunt ' of much contempt, at high-flying rationalists like Ewald (s' eagle of Gottingen," grunts Strauss,) or senti mental poetizers like Renan, and then sink ing his head in the ground again, and going at it with invincible snout and tusks of great ferocity. But besides the half-suppressed yet painful consciousness that Renan has had the chaplet which should have graced his own brows, Strauss suffers from the gen eral conviction that he has been a hard-used man. The clergy have been against him; theologians have dispnted his right to be called a theological teacher; and the laity have not been on his side. The, generous candor with which Neander recognized his openness and love oftruth—a fact of which Dr. Strauss might haVe wade mention, but does not—appears to have had few imita- BALLARD'S 37 NORTH EIGHTH STRUT, NEAR FILBERT. ONE PRICE, TH AMtRICAN PRESTYTERMir I T: ESTI 9, 1866. tors. His experience, on the whole, has been that of a theological Ishmael. It is impossible not to perceive that he writes as an injured man; and an injured man, be sides being naturally disagreeable, labors under well-known disadvantages both in the apprehension and communication of truth. Hence, there is not in these volumes that comparatively enjoyable sense of sky and air, that glow of sunny warmth, of which you are conscious in the earlier book; and the author falls into certain errors and contradictions which he avoided on the former occasion. In his.new book, Dr. Strauss shi.ws him self exceedingly incensed against the clergy. It is hardly too much to say that he tries to excite the commonalty against them. To get rid of the clergy is a reward held out by him to incite us to get rid of mira cles. Clerical opinion in theological mat ters is represented as utterly worthless, on the ground that the interest of the priest hood is too directly involved to admit of their judging fairly. This is, not worthy of Dr. Strauss. He has got hold of a poor half-truth, and he parades it as if it were a whole truth. Every guild or profession is biassed in favor of abuses from which it de rives influence, honor, - ,or . bread. You do not expect lawyers to aid in the cheapen ing of legal proceedings; retrenchment in the military expenditure is not looked for from the colonels in the Rouge of Com mons ; and neither the lawyer nor the sol dier has more jealously guarded the privi leges of his order than the priest. It is, nevertheless, indisputable that every pro fession is the highest authority on its own affairs. You consult the works of great lawyers if you wish to master the princi ples of law; you turn to famous captains if you mean to study the art of war. Why so ? Becauae though greed is a characteristic of humanity, professional and unprofessional, there is 'a heat and force of nooleness in all but the basest souls to raise the intellect, when engaged in the contemplation of im portant subjects, to .an elevation, from which..the flesh-pots of interest, lost in the expanse of, landscape, become no longer visible; while the mountain-ranges of prin ciple, seen in their mass and grandeur, fill the prospect. Man is bad enough, but not so bad that one in a thousand of those the ologians who have devoted their lives to contemplation of the great themes, God, freedom, immortality, has been a mere spe cial-pleader for his order. The idea that Christian - theologians, Origen, Auzu,stine, kaselm, Aquinas, Luther; Calvin, incapa citated by professional bias to. give an opin ion, must stand aside while a few modern philosophers condescend to explain Chris tianity, is too paradoxical to command the assent of sober minds. Dr. Strauss would never have taken up with such a tap room argument, if the intellectual placidity which reigned in his first work had not been disturbed. He has some apology in the fact that the Ultramontane priesthood in Roman Catholic countries, levying war to the knife againt culture, and a large pro portion of the Protestant, clergy in Ger many,' State-fed and slavishly subservient to the power that feeds . them, present un favorable specimens of their class; but in both the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches of the: - Continent there are large- Minded and open-minded clergymenr to be found ; and in this couutry, as every reader is aware, the clergy have not only their honored representatives in every branch of secular knowledge, but number in their ranks our ablest, boldest, most earnest, and most honest inquirers ,in theological sci ence.—Peter Bayne, in Fortnightly Review. A Correct adaptation of the voice to dis tances'ia what we need, to prove musical and Agreeable talkers.. The pitch of; the, Voice' and the Volume of tone shotild be such as' totender the person speaking easily audible without any undue straining oi the listener's attention, And nothing more than this. An excess of conversational tone and a voice, too high-pitched are excesgve.: ly disagreeable, especially, ,in, society It draws, embarra,ssingl . }. the attention of:sur toundiOg persons; he agreeable "privacy of conversation ceases,,tind "you' becomel the declairrier' to a small audiened. ` The effect of this is almost inevitable to silence your companion, particularly if `that companion be a lady;- and of ordinary lady-like sensi bility. There is an extreme of 'all this,' however; which is equally to be deprecated. It is,pitching the voice.so low, and using so little tone, that remarks ham tiresomely. ,to be repeated ; more', ver, imrting to the, conversation a confidential character, by which, when combined with a certain bend ing, or leaning toward the person with whom you .are conversing, we have seen ladies excessively and justly annoyed. It should be remembered that a clear articulation will always well take the place of great volume of tone. Better, far better, a low tone with a clear articulation, than a boisterous tone with a thick and blurred articulation. The predominating tone of speech, then, should be calm, quiet, low. The low tones of most voices are the richest. We have heard women occasionally con verse in deep, mellow, contralto tones, the effect of which was exceedingly rich and musical. The voices of our American women are apt to be far too high-pitched and soreamy. As, the voice always has a tendency to rise in conversation, we should at least begin low. It is, moreover, a grateful relief to the ear, and a pleasant, sale to the light of the conversation, to drdf the voice occasionally from a high and animated pitch, and regain the cool, quiet key-note originally struck.. * * * Io point of sentiment the clear tone expresses gayety and light-heartedness. We hear it in merry children at play. In its excesses this tone becomes disagreeable, acrid and pointed. The voices of termagants and scolds illustrate this. On the other hand, the shaded and sombre• tone expresses quiet, repose, calm.- In its deeper shades, sadness and melancholy. In its exttemes," horror and despair. It is the indispensable tone in high tragedy. Now the conversa tional tone is only heard in perfection when BALLARD'S FINEST FRENCH AND . AMF4RIOAN BOOTS, SHOES AND SLIPPERS. EVERY-PAIR WARRANT. ONE PRICE. CONVERSATIONAL TONES. both these shades of tone are brought into play. Persons who habitnally use but one, command but half the resources of the speaking voice. Such is the case with most Americans. We use as a nation the hard, piercing quality of tone—we talk with contracted, rather than expanded throats. This contraction is not that modern one, which produces the agreeably clear tone described, but it is .tbat excessive contrac tion, which produces a certain acridity and pointedness. Americans think and speak and act intensely—hence this intensity in their voices, we suppose. But for all plea sant, conversational purposes we should do better to allow the throat generously to ex pand, and suffer the tones to come out, as they then will de, rich and musical. Par , titularly would our American 'women gain Greatly in attractiveness, if they would drop this sharp, Xantippe quality of tone so often heard ; and . allow , that quiet, re poseful music to steal out which •to every ear is so captivating.—Oace a Month. SCIENCE AND CHRISTIANITY. I have no fear that the splentiors of physical science will make the crown of the Christian faith pale acid was dim. Let them stand before the world, side by side, and let them both tell all they have to com municate concerning the nature of man and concerning the achievement of God. The hula, heart will declare that, marvelous as are the manifestations of wisdom, and power, and beneficence in the material creation, they are nothing compared' with the transcendent glory of 'His infinite love for man; as shown in the incarnation and death of the Lord Jesus Christ; and that, vast as are the benefits secured for the race by a deeper and wider knowledge of the laws of the material universe, they are utterly insignificant , compared with, rest for the agitated and wearysonl, the peace for the troubled conscience, ta'hbpe and triumph in the hour of death; the 'blessedness of present communion with God, the recovery of His image, the certainty of eternal ,fel lowship with Him beyond the grave, which Christ has brought within our rea.ch, Physical science may tell me of the rich' and bountiful gifts which God has bestow ed upon his creatures, and may dazzle me with the pomp, and splendor, and power of the ministers of His wisdoin and love; bat Christetakes me by the hand and me face to face with Goinioiself;' in His pre sence there is fulness of joy. He is the Father of my spirit, and you leave my deepest ancLintensest longings unsatisfied until you give me rest in . His love and direct communion with His infinite and eternal bliss.—Rev. R. W. Dale. UNBELIEF DISSIPATED, There are now multitudes of inquirers who need to be dealt with as Mr. Patrick, of Scotland, dealt with a woman who had been long anxious but seemed to obtain no relief. Placing himself beside her and looking steadily in her face, be said, " Do you believe the Bible ?" "-I do," she replied. " as ye tell me wha made the world ?" She smiled a little contemptuously, and after a pause said, It was God !" To which he immediately replfd, " How d'ye ken ? Were ye there to see ?" She seemed surprised, perceiving that there was evidently more meant by the question than she' had supposed', and then 'remarked : " No, I was not there, but the Word of God says that He made it." Ah, well,,you believe 'a the Bible says, d'ye ?" 'She said "Yes." " well, we'll see. This is, my be loved Son, in whom r am` well pleased; hear ye Him.' Wha says that?" "The Father:" • Wellfwill ye do as the Father bids ye ? Ile ;commands ye to hear the Son." To this she assented. " Weel, then, whit does the Son say? 4 111m4hat cometh unto Me I *ill in no iise oast out!. Come unto Me midi will give you rest.' (Daughter, thy sins, which are many, are all , forgiven thee,' . and will He not say the same to you? Is He no saying it even the noo ? Ye dinna believe that, ye dinna believe Him. I tell ye, ye dinna believe a' the Bible." She instantly saw the shame and sin of not trusting in a prothising, present Re deemer, and as instantly ventured on His mercy and found the peace she'sought. PERSONAL SKETCH OF TENNYSON. 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