Suite’s I.ITEUAKY IXTELIieEXCE. sikiucan. —Quite a flight of song-birds has duly noticed in our American literary hea- We give such brief notices of them as onr illows:— ml B. Street's Poems have been re-issued j 12mo. vols. Oar readers know him as the ,ir of the stirring and noble poem, “The Forest Eagle.” Forceylhe Willson’s is from Ticknor&Fields, are somewhat Emer an. VVe gave a pleasing specimen of Mrs. F. Cap', “ The Parmer's Wife,” in our last. n.iicott.) Amanda T. Jones’ chief Poem, '.antis,” is a classic subject to our own tiy's present condition, grandly treated, in :nr style, with mingled beauty and strength ,ythm. —(Hurd & Houghton.) RobertK. s verses are Bcrappy, hut of a thoughtlul —(Leypoldt.) S. Dry den Phelps the “Poet’s Song for the- Heart and ,” religious in tone. —(Sheldon & Go.) bp Jefferson Cutler’s War Poems, only 13 nber. are eifeetive, patriotic, ant ably writ " Little, Brown & Go.) Reo.Wm. Allen , a veteran in this line, issues “Poems of :h and of the Cross.” Though the sub e familiar, they are treated with freshness lividuality. —(Bridgman & Childs, North j Poems and Translations by Emma (.<, purport to be the work of a miss from Lirtecuth to her seventeenth year. They ■prisingly elaborate for such an age. The at ions are from Heine and Victor Hugo. wd & Houghton.) “Antonius,” a Dra- Poem by G. Jleyioood, author of Hero plot founded on the Druidical Kites in Britain; bold in conception, vigorous in ion, takes a high rank. —(Hurd & j lough ——“ King Rene’s Daughter” is a Dan nssic by Herrick Herz, translated by Theo- I fn-tiii, a fine piece of historical romance. ypoldt & Holti) A. D. F. Randolph has , through Scribner, “Hopefully Waiting ither Poems.” Jilin James Piatt, of Cin ti, writes “Poems in Sunshine and Firc ,“ and John A. Dorjan, of this city, after ng a third edition of Studies, recognized by •s as exhibiting many of the best indications ue poetry, a few days ago submitted to the if mortality and passed away, He is under ! to have left behind hi in manuscript poems ■iont io form another,volume, which may likely soon be printed- "They are in the s of the poet’s sister. Xn(iUN'Ci;JIENTS. —Presbyterian Publication umi'.'tce, rhilmb-lphia. —Faith and Victory: a e of Bengal, by the late Mrs. Mullens, of Cal a.—•—Messrs. Tkknor & Fields announce loud editions of Dickens’ works, uniform with exquisite diamond Tennyson. They also iso Longfellow in the same style at $1.25 a no. Their list of forthcoming works em s: Poems, Grave and Gay, by George Ar- Tlie Tent on the Beach, by Whittier; llec- uI Five Years, by Grace Greenwood; Greece, i at. and Modern, by G. C. Felton, LL.D.; itin'iii i Americans of Recent Times, by Parton; sligious Poems, by Mrs. Stowe; May Day, and ler Pieces, by Ralph Waldo Emerson. G. Curlctoit & Co., New York. — new volume iir. Gumming, author of “The Great Tribu jtiini." etc. Leypoldt & Holt, Nno York. — flic Protestant Galiey Slave, from the French; j"Ui/. 11 1 s Meditations on Christianity, and the fttacks now made upon it, from the French; iesMug’s Nathan the Wise, with an Essay by fisclior, from the German. D. Appleton & Co. ■-American Annual Cyclopaedia for 1866; Rit f-’s Comparative Geography of Palestine and ria. 4 vols. 8v0.,514; New Testament History, m. Smith, 1 vol. 12m0., §3. E. P. Du'ton i Co,. Boston. —The Restoration of Belief, by Baac Taylor, a new revised edition, with an addi [onal chapter. Gould. & Lincoln. —The New Jirtli. or the Work of the Holy Spirit, by Austin fhelps, Professor in Andover Theological Semi iary. pp. x., 253. Hurd & Houghton.—Para |ise host, a now edition, with explanatory notes, |p. xiv., 409. Roll HUT Carter & Bros, announce: —Cur- ;w Chinics, by Rev. Dr. Macduff; Out of laruoss, by Rev. Dr. Guthrie; My Fathers kisiu. ss, by the-same; Edged Tools, by the au hor nt‘ “ Win and Wear;” Bonar’s Hymns, third erics; Yesterday, To-day, and Forever, by Bick n-teth ; Life of Rev. Dr. Marsh, by Miss Marsh; 'he. Lake of the Woods, and the Wanderer in Llriea. by A. L. O. E., and the other new vol ,mes of the same author already announced. j Scribner is about to put into the market new ssues at a reduced price, of those standard works if learning and thought by George P. Marsh, 1 Lectures on the English Language,” “ Origin md History of the English Language,” and i.Mau and Nature;” and likewise pf President Voolsey’s “ International Law,” and of Maine’s ■Ancient Law.” ' A. Strahan, London and New York, has ssued Mansel’s Philosophy of the Conditioned, iomprising some Remarks on Sir William Hamil iim’s I‘hilosophy, and on Mr. J. S. Mill's Exarni mtion of that Philosophy; also Hersohel’s Familiar Lieetures on Scientific Subjects, pp. xii., 507. IV. J. Widdieton, New York, will immedi itcly bring out an octavo of nearly 400 pages, in titled “ Philip 11. of Spain,” written by Charles Jayarrc, author of the well-known “History of jouisiaua” —a work of which Mr. Bancroft, who argely quotes from it, has said, “There is little iced of looking beyond Gayarre, who rests his jarrative on authentic documents.” The same lublisher also issues the American reprint of Con ngton's yEneid at $2.50; also Herschel’s Trans ition of the “ Iliad ” of Homer into English Ac ien tinted Hexameters. He also announces the irst American edition of the Prout Papers, in two |oluines, with a portrait of the author (Rev. Francis Mahoiiy,) additional poems not heretofore ollectod, notes, various readings, and an origi lal biography. “ Bibliographical Dictionary op Books lelating to America.”—The first part of Mr. osepli Sabin’B work under this title is now ready. Jr. Sabin informs us that nearly four years of ibor have been spent in arranging and classify- Dg the material which had accumulated on his lands in the course of fifteen years of research. THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1867. Lexicography. —The following announce ment will prove interesting to all students of the Hebrew Scriptures: A Hebrew and Chaldee Lexi con to the Old Testament, with an Introduction, giving a Short History of Hebrew Lexicography, by Dr. I. Fuerst. Third Edition, improved and enlarged, containing a Grammatical and Analyti cal Appendix. Translated from the German by Samuel Davidson, D.D. Roy. Bvo., pp. xxxvi., 1511. N. Y.: Leypoldt & Holt. Sheep binding. §ll. The work is printed for the American pub lishers in Leipzig, and is far from dear for one of that high character. Clark & Co., Chicago, advertise in New York what will probably be an important addition to our recent political history. It is “A History of President Lincoln and the Overthrow of Slavery,” intended to give an inside view of the recent ad ministration. It is sold by subscription only. McPherson’s Political Manual for 1866 has sold to ,the extent of 20,000 copies since the middle of July. Extraordinary - Cheapness of Recent Bri tish Publications. —Literature of every kind, from the daily paper and the child’s spelling-book to the commentaries, cyclopedias andjlaw books of the professions, is a luxury with us as it used to be in England. See what it is in England now. The editor of the Round Table speaks of having seen one o'fthe set'of the “ Waverley Novels” to be published by an Edinburgh house. The vol ume is printed in a beautifully clear though small type, upon nice paper; has an illustrated title page,, and -is-in every way a pleasant edition of these novels. The retail price of this book in England is sixpence; in New York it is sold wholesale at the rate of fifteen cents per copy, retail at, perhaps, twenty-five cents. If made here, it could not be retailed at less than seventy five cents. The other book is the first volume of ait edition of “ Shakspeare ” —which should be completed in fifteen volumes, or thereabouts, as this one contains three plays—issued by,,Messrs. Bradbury, Evans & Co., of London. The -little book, about the size of one’s vest-pocket,. ; is ex quisite in typography and cream-tinted paper — as delightful a “ Shakspeare” as one need wish to read from. The English retail price of this is a shilling, and its wholesale price here probably about thirty cents, inasmuch as the New York dealers can afford to retail it at fifty cents. A cheapness of -book-making which tojus seems al most incredible is now established in England. Messrs. Macmillan & Co., for instance, publish “Shakspeare” complete, in handsome form, for two shillings and sixpence (62 cents.) Mr. Mur ray, for half-a-crown (rather less than a dollar, with allowance for the premium on gold,) pub lishes, in handsome shape, a complete “ Byron.” A Glasgow house sells the complete “ Pilgrim’s Progress,” 255 32m0. pages of it, for twopence; or bound in cloth for fourpence; while, to return to “Shakspeare,” a complete edition is printed for a shilling; out its appearance is unpleasant. ftitral ftijpimj. INFLUENCE OF WATER ON TIE PRODUO - -:s!p®N OF-MELK.i-: - -- -- In a communication to the French Academy of Sciences, Dr. Dancel discusses tlie influ ence of liquid food and of water upon the quantity of milk secreted' by herbivoroiis animals. It is found that by inciting cows tcr> drink large quantities of water, the quan tity of milk yielded by them can be increased several quarts per day without materially injuring its quality; the amount of milk ob tained is approximately proportional to the quantity of water drunk. Cows which, when stall-fed with dry fodder, gave only from nine to twelve quarts of milk per day, at once produced from' twelve to fourteen quarts daily when their food was moistened by mixing with it from eighteen to twenty three quarts of water per day. Besides this water taken with the food, the animals were allowed to drink at the same intervals as before, and their thirst was excited by ad ding to the fodder a small quantity of salt. The milk produced under the water regi men, after having been carefully analyzed and examined as to its chemical ;and physi cal properties, was adjudged to ho of good quality; excellent butter was obtained from it. The precise proportion of water which can thus be given to cows with advantage is a point not readily determinable, since the appetite for drink differs very considerably in different individuals. But by observing the degree of the appetite for drink in a number of cows, by taking note of the quantity of water habitually consumed by each of the animals in the course of twenty four hours, and contrasting this quantity with that of the milk produced,-Dancel as serts that any one can see that the yield of milk is directly proportional to the quantity of water absorbed. He asserts, moreover, in as many words, that a cow which does not habitually drink as much as twenty-seven quarts of water per, day, and he has met with such, is actually and necessarily a poor milker; she will give only from five and- a half’ to seven quarts of milk per day. But all the cows he has seen which drank as much as fifty quarts of water daily were ex cellent milkers, yielding from nineteen to twenty-three quarts, or more, of milk. In his opinion, the quantity of drink consumed by a cow is a valuable test of her worth as a milk-producer. In the main, these experiments do but il lustrate with greater precision facts which have long been familiar to practical men. The nurse, when suckling the human infant, does not naturally consume much more solid food than before, but off liquids she drinks much larger quantities. After a cow has begun to give milk she drinks far more water than before; the quantity of water consumed in creasing, according to Dancel, from between eleven and eighteen quarts per day, or even less, to twenty-seven, thirty-six, or forty-five quarts, or more—at lcast for the breed of earttle upon which he has experimented. As far as practical information goes, we have gained-very little on Yirgil (Georgies, 111. 894): “At cui lactis amor, cytisum lotosque frequented Ipse manu salsasque ferat praesepibus herbas. Mine et amanl jlutvios magis, el magis übera len dunt, Et sabs oecultum referunt in lacte saporem.” We are only able to state, somewhat more precisely than Virgil did, the effect of fol lowing these excellent directions. As Dancel justly urges, however, the prin ciple here laid down has hitherto not been sufficiently recognized by men of scieuce in many of the experiments which have been undertaken for the purpose of comparing the value of different kinds of fodder, and of determining the influence which they* severally exert upon the production of milk. Though presented as a physiological ’dis quisition, and by no means without value from the physiologist’s point of view, Dan eel’s paper will he more likely to attract general attention from its hearing upon the veiled subject of. adulteration. If the accu racy of the proposition be admitted, that by inducing a cow to drink every day twenty odd quarts of water more than her accus tomed ration, several additional quarts of milk can be obtained from her, and if the practicability of the operation be accepted as proved, then the question at once arises as to whether or no the method now under discussion will be in any way preferable to the time-honored custom of adding a certain amount of water to the milk after it has left the cow. The customary method, at first sight, certainly seems to he simpler than the plan now hinted at, of pouring six times the heedful quantity of water down the cow’s throat; but it is well-nigh certain that the milk thus indirectly “extended,” a la Dan cel, will be superior in quality to milk wa tered to the same extent after the milk has been taken from the cow.. Not only will analysis be like to exhibit a far closer ap proximation to the composition of ordinary normal milk in the former ease than in the latter, hut we may he sure that milk dilated within the afiin SI will receive a eertam' Share, at least, of that elaboration and commingling of its ingredients which is as yet inimitable by man, and which so widely distinguishes organized matter from that which is unor ganized. The milk of the water-soaked cows must-still regard'ed as adulterated, milli.' l|il£'of quality“somewhat inferior to the ordinary it may be, in spite of M! Dancel’s opinion to the contrary, but it is still the animal secretion, milk, and not a mere mixture of milk and water. Here, as in a host of other cases of sO-called adul teration, it would be well if dealers would only adopt some system of just adaptation of price to quality; just as in the Russian markets one may choose between first, se cond, and third quality eggs, according to the. length of his purse and the delicacy of his taste. jV. Y. Nation. Hcitirtiftc. HERRING; “ An eminent French writer has remarked that “the herring is one of those flatural productions, the use of vvhich has decided the destinies of nations.” This may seem to be an exaggeration of the importance of a lit tle fish, whose extreme length is but a few inches; but the history of the herring fisher ies shows that the remarkis eminently just, and it is an illustration of the common prin ciple that the smallest matters may by com bination bo elevated to the highest rank. The time was, not very long ago, when the entire product of cotton in this country was a few hundred pound#, but it soon rose to millions of pounds, and then to millions of bales, and it has exerted the most powerful influence upon the destinies of more .than one nation. It is many hundred years since the leading maratime nations of Eorope 1 devoted a large attention to fostering the herring fisheries, not alone for their immediate pro ducts, but for the education of a hardy race of seaman to man their navies and to add to their prowess in obtaining the supremacy of the seas. The value of the fish, also, as a cheap and agreeable food for the people, which was soon in great demand, enabled the government easily to induce their ad venturous sons to engage in these fisheries. Holland was one of the first countries to en ter largely in the herring fishery, and her subseduent greatness as a commercial and a warlike nation was in a great measure owing to the profit derived from it. Amsterdam, we are told, from a village of herring catchers’ cabins and curing-sheds, rose by the skill and enterprise of those in one way and another connected with the business, and by the traffic immediately springing from it, to a pitch of affluence and .granduer scarcely paralleled. The saying that “ Am sterdam is founded on herring bones;” is almost historically as well as proverbially true. The French, many centuries ago, per ceived the importance of fostering this branch of national enterprise, and if they were not as great consumers of the article as the Dutch, they contribute very largely toward the supply of the rest of the world. Nor were the English behind their neighbours across the channel in making war upon this small specimen of the finny tribe. To the scientific and curious the herring has been one of the most remarkable and in teresting of the inhabitants of the ocean.— Its habits have been a subject of study for ages, and although we cannot be said to have ari-ived at accurate knowledge in regard to all their modes of life, yet enough has been learned to repay study and to stimulate the cultivation of a better acquaintance. It is the common belief that the herrings spend the winter in the arctic regions, and that they live there upon the insects with which those northern seas swarm. Some, on the other hand, maintain that they merely retire from the vicinity of the laud to the deep ■waters of the ocean on the approach of win ter, and return again from no distant parts to the shores. But the fact seems to be well established that they make their appearance on the coast of Europe in the spring, from the far north, from which they come down in immense quantities, thickening the water of the ocean for miles and miles, as the swarms of locusts in the East fill the air like thick clouds. An eminent naturalist describes their appearance off the British Islands as follows : “This mighty army begins to put itself in motion in spring. They begin to appear off the Shetland Isles in Aprii.and May. These are only the fore-runners of the grand shoals which comes iu June: and their appearance is marked by certain signs, such as the num bers of birds, like gannets and others, which follow to prey on them; but when the main body approaches, its breadth and depth is such as to alter the appearance of the very ocean. It is divided into distinct columns of .five or six miles in length, and three.,or four in breadth. They drive the water be fore them with a kind of a rippling. Some times they sink for the space of ten or fifteen minutes, and then rise again to the surface; and in fine weather reflect a variety of colors, like a field of most precious gems. The first check this army meets in its march south ward is from the Shetland Isles, which di vide it into two parts. One wing takes to the east, the other to the western shores of Great Britain, and fill every bay and creek with their numbers. The former proceed to ward Yarmouth, the great and ancient niart of herrings. They then pass through the British Channel, and after that in a manner disappear. Those which take toward the west, after offering themselves to the Hebri des, where the great Stationary fishery is, pro ceed to the north of Ireland, where they meet with a second interruption, and are obliged to make a second division. The one takes tothe western side, and is scarcely perceived, beidg soon lost in the immensity of the At lantic: but the other, that passes into the Irish Sea, rejoices and feeds the inhabitants of most of the coasts that border on it.— These brigades, as we may call them, which are thus separated from the greater columns, are often capricious in their motions, ~ and do not show an invariable attachment to their haunts. This instinct of migration was given to the herrings that they might deposit their spawn in warmer seas, that would ma ture and vivify it more assuredly than*those of the frozen jsone. It is not from defect of food that they set themselves in motion, for they come to us full of fat; and on their re turn are almost universally observed to be lean and miserable.” HTSEGTS FABRICATES OF IRON. Itiswell known thatsomeinsectsareskilful spinners, but it is not known that some of them fabricate iron. A Swedish naturalist, Sjogreen, has published a curious memoir oh this subject. The insects in question are almost mierosccopic, theydive beneath cer tain trees, especially in the province of Sma land, and they spin, like silk worms, a kind of ferruginous cocoons, which constitute the mineral known under the'natrth of "“lake ore,” and which is composed of from 20 to 60 per- cent, of oxide of iron, mixed with oxide of maganese; ten per cent, of chloric, and some centimetres of phosphoric acid. The deposits of this mineral may be 215 yards long and from 18 to 30 inches thick. PifetfottiMiri*, This is a personal in vitation to the reader to examine our new sti'les of Fine Clothing, Cas siniere Suits for $l6, and Black Suits fors22. Finer Suits, all prices up to $75. Wanamaker & Brown, Oak Hall, Southeast corner of Six,th & Market Sts. W. G. BEDFORD, CONVEYANCER AND REAL ESTATE AGENT, CTo. S 3 3NT. Tenth. Street, PHILADELPHIA. 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