ihiiac’s faille. , jjgy Publishers will confer a favor by mentioning the prices of all books sent to this Department. Her Majesty’s Tower, by Wm, Hepworth Dixon, is a series of descriptive and narrative sketches upon the various, buildings composing the Tower of London, and the distinguished per sons who have found in it their final earthly abode; around which gather all the thrilling as sociations of “ a nation’s highest splendor, deep est misery and darkest shame.” Very easy in deed it is to invest with interest, upon the printed page, the story of a building which has eight hun dred years of historic life, and nineteen hundred of traditional fame; the oldest palace and prison of Europe, of civilization. A dry guide-book would gleam with unearthly light, which simply indicated the chamber where Lady Jane Grey lodged after the literal nine days’ wonder of her Qucenship; the room where Sir Walter Raleigh wrote his History of the World with the same fingers which felt the edge of the executioner’s axe, to learn whether it was sharp enough to do its work well; and the room where Cranmer, La timer and Ridley searched the New Testament together. But we all know Mr. Dixpn is far from being a Dry-as-dust. His skill in picturesque and effective grouping of facts is too well known, indeed is apt to lead him away from the facts themselves. But in the work before us, the facts are too well ascertained to allow of romancing, or too romantio in themselves to need it. The book is dedicated to the Queen by her express permis sion, and re-published in this country by Harper & Bros. 12mo. pp. 263, with index. Price 60 cents. In Peg Woffington, Christie Johnstone and Other Stories, we have the concluding volume of Fields, Osgood & Co.’s Household Edition of Reade, a famous and in many respects admirable writer of fiction, whose place can scarcely be reckoned second to any in his depart ment of literature. With the single exception, but a very gross one, his writings can be com mended as free from impurity, and as able argu ments in the skilfullest form for valuable moral and social ends. The Household Edition, now concluded, is in the neatest and handiest 16mo. form, bound in green cloth, the page being divi ded into two columns. Price $1 per volume. For sale by Lippincott. Memory’s Tribute to Thomas H. Stock ton, by Alexander Clark, of the Methodist Church, Pittsburgh, is one of those very few tributes to the departed which not only from its subject, but from the genial, sympathetic and eloquent manner of its treatment, and from the public value of the accompanying documents, deserve to command a wide and interested re gard. The report of the prayer offered by Mr. Stockton, at Gettysburg, in hearing which Mr. Lincoln’s own mind was, by his own admission, deeply awakened, is alone worth the price of the little volume. Now York: S. R. Wells. PERIODICALS AND PAMPHLETS. Monthlies received for March: Missionary Herald. ' Little Corporal. Mayne Reid’s Onward. Our Young Folks’ News is a weekly paper published by Alfred Martien, and well edited by our friend, Rev. Henry Reeves. It is full of at tractive, varied and perfectly wholesome matter for young people of both sexes from ten to eighteen. Illustrated, price $1 a year. The Yale Literary Magazine, conducted by the Students of Yale College, has now reached its 34th volume, and is the oldestcollege periodi cal in America. We note among its Editors, Mr. Edward P. Wilder, son of the heroic missionary in Kolapoar LITERiRY ITEMS. Barbara Frietchie —A Letter from John G. Whittier.— The following appeared in The Washington Star of Feb. 23. « Recently a communication appeared in The Star claiming for Mrs. M. A. Quantrill that she is entitled to the honors given to Barbara Friet chie (immortalized in Whittier’s stirring verse) for displaying the Stars and Stripes while the Rebel troops were passing through Frederick. We have now from Mr. Whittier the following letter, in which he holds to his faith in Barbara, and gives good reason for so doing. As there is no doubt, from the testimony of at least four wit nesses, that Mrs. Quantrill’s claim is well founded, there seems to be considerable mystification in the matter. Probably the true solution is that both these brave U nion women displayed their patriot ism and their courage in the same way on the same occasion: “ < To the Editor of the Star; —‘I .have re ceived a copy of thy paper, containing a letter from a lady who claims to have been the heroine of the flag at Frederick. I have never heard of her before, and, of course, know nothing of her veracity or loyalty. I must say, however, injus tice to myself,, that I have full confidence in the truth of the original statement furnished me by a distinguished literary lady of Washington as respects Barbara Frietchie —a statement soon after confirmed by Dorothea Dix, who visited Frederick, and made herself acquainted with many interest ing particulars of the life and character of that remarkable woman. Very truly thy friend, ‘John G. Whittier. 'Amesbury, 19/A, 2 d mo., 1869/ ” —Mrs. Lydia R. Bailey, who die jin Philadel phia,.Feb. 21, at the age of 91, carried on the printing business in this city for over 59 years. Her husband, Robert Bailey, died in 1808, and she continued the printing until 1861. Previous to the introduction of steam-power presses she had one of the largest offices in the/city. She was the “ city printer ” for some years. —Mayne Reid, in the March No. of hi 3 Maga THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1869. zine “ Onward,” explains that chiefly through the “ failure or default” of the once great Eng lish banking house of Overend, Gurney & Co., he has suffered a financial affliction, compelling him, at a time when he might have expected repose, to renew the labor of a lifetime. —The most famous and most objectionable of Charles Rcade’s Novels, (Griffith Gaunt), on its first appearance as a magazine serial was very violently and abusively assailed for its impurity, in the Round Table. Mr. Reade instituted suit against the paper for libel, and the case has just been tried in one of the New York courts. As part of the evidence for the plaintiff, the court permitted the reading of the novel, which was done in part by the velteran reader Yandenhoff. It was described as a tedious operation as far as it went, but on the second day, the court with drew its permission and the reading ceased. It was in evidence that Mr. Reade received either £3 or 3 guineas per page for “ Griffith Gaunt,” from the publishers of The Atlantic Monthly, and five or six guineas from The Argosy, also, a per centage on the sales of the story after being pub lished in book form by Messrs. Ticknor& Fields. It was also incidence, that the circulation of the' Round Table at the time of the publication of the alleged libel was 3,725 to 3,750. The de fendant ( Round Table ) opened the case by a mo tion to dismiss the complaint on the ground that the Court has no jurisdiction, Mr. Reade, the plaintiff, being a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, living in London. The motion was over ruled, without requiring an answer from the op posing lawyer. The novel itself, and Mr. Reade’s own defence of it, called “Prurient Prudes ” were put in evidence to justify the criticism of the Round Table. The counsel for the latter plead that the book in question did paint vice in an en ticing form, and an honest critic, especially when, asked by the author or publisher to criticise it, would condemn such demoralizing books. The jury, March 4th, gave a verdict for the plaintiff and put the damages at six cents. —Scribner’s “ Book-Buyer,” (semi-monthly journal of Literature) has lately been accompanied with full lists of the valuable English works, both old and recent, upon the shelves of Scribner, Welford & Co. One department is headed “ Bulletin of Books received during the past month,” and comprises recent valuable works in Philosophy; Religion, History, Poetry and Fic tion, Education, Finely Illustrated, Voyages and Travels, Medicine, Arts and Sciences, Miscella neous; and which is a deeply interesting study to the literary man, and of the highest value to the enquirer in every department of knowledge. A supplement to the Book-Buyer, of Feb. 15th, as noted last week, gave a full catalogue of a single department of this great collection, viz.: that of Arts and Sciences, embracing 64 closely printed pages. A similar supplement contains a descrip tive list of Messrs. Scribner & Co.’s Religious and Theological publications. Another department is the List of Importations, including many scarce, curious and unique books, from Boydell’s Shakespeare at 8250, Hume & Smollett at 8125, and Bunsen’s Egypt at 887.50, to Theologica Germanica at 81-25. One gets a better and wider view of the actual realm of English literature from this catalogue than from many letters of correspondents. Messrs. Charles Scribner & Co. are about to publish Chips from a German, Worlcshop, by Prof. Max Muller, M. A. The work will be pro duced in two crown octavo volumes, uniform in size and style with Lectures on the Science of Language, by the same distinguished author, and the two volumes will be sold for 85. Of English works, we announce a new book by Mr. W. E. H. Lecky, author of the History of Rationalism : A History of European Morals , from Augustus to Charlemagne. Mr. Lecky is a young man believed to be of Irish birth, who spends much of his time travelling on the Conti nent, and is almost unknown, even to his pub lishers. —We also note that Mr. John Stuart Mill, since his retirement from political life, is getting out a new edition of his father, John Mill’s, Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind, for many years among the scarcest of modern books —And Mr. Rassam makes the most of his Abyssinian captivity by writing a book on it. —A new edition of Rev. Mr. Liddon’s ffniversity Ser mons, uniform with the eminently successful Bampton Lectures on the Divinity of Christ, by the. same author. —Mr. Gladstone, true to his early literary love, will shortly publish, through Messrs. Macmillan & Co., a new volume of Ho meric Studies, Juventus Mundi, The Gods and Heroes of Greece. —We also note R. F. Burton’s Explorations of the Highlands of Brazil, with a full Account of the Gold and Diamond Mines, and a Canoe Voyage of 1,500 miles down the Great River San Francisco ; also Prince Salm Salm’s stirring Diary in Mexico, where will be found the fullest account of the last days of the Emperor Maximilian, with whom he was a fellow-prisoner, and whose fate he narrowly escaped sharing. —Also, Doctor Hartwig’s Polar World, or Man and Nature in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions ; a very important work by Mr. Jamres Fergusson, the historian of Architecture, Tree and Serpent Worship, or Illustrations of My thology and Art in India, in the first and fourth centuries after Christ, from Buddhist sculptures, &c ; A Memoir of Lord Palmerston, by Sir Henry L'. Bulwer.—A charming edition of Ho race, illustrated, con amove, entirely from ancient gems, intaglios, &0., by C. M. King, well known by his previous works on that branch of antique art; The Sun, a monograph by Balfour Stewart and J. Norman Lockyer. A large number of friends of Sabbath schools, in several States, have called a Na tional Mass and Delegated Convention, to meet at Newark, New Jersey, April 28th, 1869. The place is designated by invitation from the New Jersey State S. S. Association and of citizens of Newark. The object of the meeting is to consult in regard to plans of labor, methods of holding institutes, convention work and organization, normal instruction, in regard, to States where State conventions are not yet organized, and in regard to the relations of our work to the Sunday-school work in other lands. Afflictions are God’s workmen upon our hearts to pull down the pride and‘cdrnal security of them; and being so, their na ture is ohanged; they are turned into bless ings and benefits. Htttttfiiw. THE NEW CHICAGO TUNNEL. Mr. T. D. Stetson gives an account of a recent visit to the Chicago Tunnel. He says that some confusion had existed in regard to the tunnel at Chicago. There were two tunnels in that city. One extended under the lake two miles, and was full of water. Through this the city obtained pure water from a point in the lake beyond the influence of the sewerage and filth of the city. But this was not the tunnel he intended to talk about. The other tunnel was under the Chicago River, and was a practical success. This was an interesting topic, now that a tunnel under the East River is talked of. The Thames tunnel had been a success to a certain extent. Foot passen gers passed through, but as yet no carriage-ways had been used. But in Chicago carriage-ways wece in actual use under the south branch of the Chicago River. This was the only instance where carriages actually drove through a tunnel under a navigable river. This tuDnel, at the crossing of Washington St., Chicago, had been made as an experiment, instead of building a drawbridge, such as is found on every.other street, crossing the river. A great deal of shipping passed, through this river, and over the tunnel. The river was not deep—about 14 feet at the point in question. The depth of the tunnel was 13 feet. It consist ed of three arches, two for carriages and one for foot passengers. It was lighted throughout with gas. The width of the river was 220 feet. The tunnel was not constructed, by tunneling, in the ordinary meaning of the word. A coffer dam was built, so that one side of the river might be. jumped at a time, that navigation might not be interfered with. The tunnel was cut out as a ditch, from the top, and then walled up and arch ed over. An arrangement had been made for keeping the tunnel dry by a well sunk in the middle, leading to a sewer, which conveyed the water to one side of the river, where it was pump ed out. The interior of the arch is of brick, the sides arp stone. Bituminous cement on top of the brick, concrete, on that, and flagstone still above, forming the bed of the river. The top of the tunnel is nearly on a level with the bottom of the river. In regard to tunneling the East River from New York to Brooklyn, people had generally an idea that it was to be done by laying an immense iron tube on the bottom. In tunnel ing in the ordinary way under this river, two very unmanageable materials would be found in the way—quicksand and rock. This was very different from the material met in tunneling the Thames. There, they had simply to cut through a Btiff blue clay. There was a similar bed of clay under Chicago. The speaker enumerated the usual difficulties met with in tunneling. The Chicago Tunnel was a practical success. It was 220 feet across the river, and the entire length of the tunnel, to secure a proper grade, was 1,600 feet. Stairways admitted foot passengers at dif ferent points. The specifications called for ven tilation, bat the current of air through the tunnel was quite sufficient, in fact was complained of as being too strong. The grade was one foot in 16. The width of the tunnel was about 30 feet. Mr. Edmund Ferguson presented a model of a for an iron tunnel to be laid on the bottom of the East River. The shape is oval, and the pres sure sustained by arches and* pillars of iron. The. shell is double, and made of iron plates firmly riveted, and water-tight. These sections are to be laid down one at a time, and the connection made under water. Each end of the section is closed until the connection h made with the pre ceding section when the partition is removed, and so on across the river. Several gentlemen spoke highly of the apparent feasibility of the plan. Mr. Ferguson estimates the cost, including land rights and other contingencies, at 82,500,000. — Tribune. 00N0ERT PITCH. This subject is attracting great interest among musicians abroad, and siDgers in England paricularly are complaining that modern music is written so high that the hu man voice is incapable of reaching the upper notes without straining. For this reason Sims Reeve, the popular tenor, refuses to appear at concerts, as his voice is unable to undergo the strain. In France, a few years ago, the orchestral pitch was lowered half a tone, and is fixed by a decree of the govern ment. Germany has also adopted the French pitch. To obtain the received concert pitch, the following instrument has,been devised: Take a stout, smooth piece of board, eigh teen inches long and six inches. wide, and fasten securely thereon, at a distance apart of twelve and five-eighths inches, two strong blocks, narrowed at the top to an edge. Now take two feet of piano forte wire,- weighing exactly thirty-eight and two-thirds grains, and fasten one end into one end of the board, carry the wire over the two bridges, and keep it tightened by a twenty four pound avoirdupois weight attached to the other end. This string made to vibrate, will give 256 vibrations to the second, and will sound the above middle C at the mean concert pitch— Ledger. The model of a proposed rival of the Great Eastern was exhibited in San Fran cisco. - It is to be of the same size as the Great Eastern, except that instead _pf 28 feet it will draw only 18 feet, and carry proportionally less tannage. It is designed to carry four times as many passengers as any present style of ship, and to Substitute for bunks regular beds; it will also give four times the space to a state-room. The motion of the sea is to be rendered almost imperceptible by a new device. The state rooms, instead of being at the outside limits of the vessel, are along the center line of the ship, where the rou is scarcely percep- The saloon is to be 500. feet long, and clear of obstructions. It is not for dining. Instead of table, there are to be two competing restaurants at the extremities .adjoining the 'saloons. ' The ship will sell passage only; the board being payable as meals are ordered. It is coii templated to carry second-class passengers and third-class in the same way. The pre sent style of first-class bunks will be third class berths. The central line of the solar eclipse, on the 7th of next August, passes from Cape Hatters across North Carolina, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, lowa, and several of the Territories, including Alaska. Such a phe nomenon, so completely within our own territory, has not occurred since 1834, and will be of great importance, not only in its astronomical aspect, but for the opportunity it will afford of studying the peculiar lum inous appearance observed in solar eclipses, and the character of solar light, with the advantages afforded by recet improvements in photography and the spectroscope never before enjoyed. English, French, and Ger man aatronomers and physicists were sent to the East Indies and Arabia to observe a similar eclipse, and those of this country now ask for aid in providing for the ex penses of transportation and instruments, which few of them are able to afford. Wheeled A Wilson’s LOCK-STITCH FAMILY gEWINC MACHINE. THE MOST SIMPLE, DUE ABLE, . CHEAPEST, ... ECONOMICAL, AND POPULAR!! Every one may be the possessor of one of these unrivalled Ma chines, as we endeavor to make the terms of sale suit ali customers. 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The above, also, in 6 ct. papers. 25 sorts Garden and Flower Seeds, $l. Catalogues gratia, Early Rose Potato, 75 cts. per It.; $3 for 5 lbs. Seeds on Commission. Agents wanted. B Feb 25—4 t. Retd the Following. Gents This is to certify that I have found AuJigsLuNG Bal sam one of the beat remedies in the world for disused lungs. 1 have used it in my family for breaking np a troublesome cough with the happiest effect. 1 recommended it to a young lady who had a h&rrassing cough and was threatened with Consumption, and it cured her in a few days. I would recommend it to those predisposed to Consumption. Respectfully yours, A. A. HARRISON, Cincinnati, 0. Steeling Bros., Druggists, write from Carrolton 0., January 27, 1867: “ Send ns six dozen Allen’s Lung Balsam. We are entirely ont of it. It gives more general satisfaction than any other medi cine we sell.” feb2s lm THE AMERICAN GUARDIAN is the largest and Cheapest Temperance Paper in the country. It contains Tales, Sketches of Travel, Poetry, Editorials, and a Children’s Depart* meat, Illustrated, besides one or two Serial Tales by distinguished authors. Published weekly at $2 a year, or $1 six months, by GEORGE S. FERGUSON A CO., 25 North Sixth Street, Philadel phia, Pa. B feb‘2s 4w New York Scientific School and Military Academy, Peekskill. N. Y. Refer to Faculty at West Point. Circulars may be had of Z. S. SEARLE, Snpt. B feb2s 4w WATERS’ N e w Scale PIANOS! With Iron Frame, Overstrung Bass and Agraffe Bridge. MELODEONS, PARLOR, CHURCH AND CABINET ORGANS, Thebest manufactured. Warranted for 6 Years. 100 Pianos, Melodeons and Organs of six first class makers, at law prices for Cash, or one-quarter cash and the balance in Monthly Installments. Second-hand instruments at great bargains. Illus trated Catalogues mailed. (Mr. Waters is the Au thor of Six Sunday School Music Books; “ Heav enly Echoes,” and “ New S. S. Bell,” just issued. Warerooms, No. 481 Broadway, N. T. HORACE WATERS. TESTIMONIALS. The "Waters Pianos are known as among the very best.— [A T eu> York Evangelist. We can speak of the merits, of the Waters Pianos from personal knowledge as being of the very best quality.— [ Christian Intelligencer . The Waters Pianos are built of the best and most thor oughly seasoned material.—[ Advocate and Journal. Waters* Pianos and Melodeons challenge comparison with tbe finest made anywhere in the country.—[Home Journal, Our friends will find at Mr. Waters* store the very beßt assortment of Organs and Pianos to be found in the Uni ted States.—[ Graham's Magazine. Md&ical Uoingb. —Since Mr. Horace Waters gave np publishing sheet music he has devoted his whole capital and attention to the manufacture and sale of Pianos and Melodeons. He has just issued a catalogue of his new in struments, giving a hew scale of prices, which shows a marked reduction from former rates, and his Pianos have recently been awarded the First Premium at several Fairs. Many people of the present day, who are attracted, if not confused, with the flaming advertisements of rival piano houses, probably overlook a modest manufacturer like Mr. Waters j but we happen to know that his instru ments earned him,a good leputation long before Exposi tions and the tf honors” connected therewith were ever thought of j indeed, we have one of Mr. Waters' piano fortes now in our residence (where it has stood for years,) of. which any manufacturer in. the world might well be proud. We have always been delighted with it as a sweet toned and powerful instrument, and there is no :its durability $ more than this, some of' the / best ,l iainateur ' J rormed'on tow stid piano,' aha all prououneea it a superior TjJnjd first-class t?jsi II Stronger dadbrSe tneiib 4ye ! 4o.uld‘ not give.*—[-Home Journal • B. M. WATSON, Plymouth, Mass.
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