Xitirarg AMERICAN. Death of James Harper. At the moment of going . to press a terrible ca lamity has fallen upon us. James Harper, the senior of the house whose name stands at the head of our paper, and which for more than half a century has presented to the world the beauti ful spectacle of four brothers knit together more closely than the Siamese twins in fraternal one ness as well as business interests, has been sud denly stricken down in the full vigor of his life. We say this despite his seventy-four years, for age is not computed by months and days; and "the Mayor," as he was familiarly styled, with his erect and muscular figure, thick dark hair, and firm step, seemed scarce have lived out half his days. No decay sapped his enjoyment of life. On a bright, balmy spring day, when Nature was at her brightest, with his daughter by his side ; the breaking of a carriage-pole, the mad daili of the horses a gliarter of a mile up the crowded avenue, he guiding them all the while with a.,firin.hand, the snapping of a wheel —and all was overr As he wi6 raised from the pavement on which his head was crushed, think ing to the last of others, he gasped, "Is my daughter killed ?" then lapsed into that insensi bility from. which he never more awakened in this life. • Great as the loss may appear in the world at large, it can only be fully realized by those who formed a part of his daily life. As his brother touchingly says, "the light of the house has one out with him." He was pre-eminently the humanizing influence in the great hive of human industry Whereof he was the head: He was the personal friend of every one of the hun dregs of workers who were congregated there. He knew their private history, and their indi- Vidual cares, and they went to him for advice as trustingly as to a father. A truer democrat the world never saw; he recognized humanity every where; his smile was as kindly and his manner as courteous to the lowliest as to the highest, and the memory of his friendly voice and genitil humor will linger long in the house whence he has, alas! forever departed. All who visit the establishment with which he has so long been identified, and which has grown to be an historical part of New York, will miss the tireless courtesy with which he was ever ready to do its hooors.--Harper's Bazar. —We give the more interesting items of the book trade. Messrs. Scribner, Welford & Co., have added to the Sunday Library, making the fifth of the series, Guizot's " Great Christians of France : St. Louis and Calvin." - They also an nounce: Annals of our Time; A Diurnal of Events, Social and Political, which have happened in, or had relation to, the }Kingdom of Great Britain, from the Accession of Queen Victoria to the opening of the present Parliament. By Joseph Irving. Bvo. half hound, $lO 50.—M. W. Dodd announces, History and' Repository of Pulpit Eloquence, by Henry C. Fish, D.D.—Fields. Osgood & Co., a Diamond Edition of Owen Me redith's Lucile ; J. B. Lippincott & Co., Mrs. Heman's Poems $1.50, and Harriet' Martineau's Biographical Sketches, $2.50; Roberts Brothers, Trench's Realities of Irish Life, $l.--; Gould & Lincoln, Annual of Scientific Discovery for 1869, $2.00; A. S. Barnes & Co., Hymns of the Church with Tunes, (Reformed Dutch); Leypoldt, N. Y., Taine's Italy $2.50, and Ideal in Art, $1.50, Brinton's Myths of the New World $2.50; Claxton, Remelt & Co., Remarkable Facts, Illus. trative and Confirmatory of Different Portions of Holy Scripture, by Rev. J. Leifchild, RD., The Son of Man : Discourses on the Humanity of Je sus Christ, by Frank Coulson, D.D., of the Na tional Church of Geneva. —The National Temperance Society, New York have issued a Temperance Hymn Book of 128 pages, price 15 cents. —Mr. George W. Childs of this city visited the Liverpool training ship, lying in the Mersey, and on his return sent a present of 175 volumes. Each book bears the following inscription : "Pre sented to the boys of the Liverpool training ship Indefatigable, by George W. Childs of Philadel phia, United States of America, who was once a sailor boy." CLASSIC BAPTISIII.—We are glad to learn that U Classic Baptism," the learned work of our friend Dr. Dale, of Media, Pa., has reached a third edi tion. It is quite a remarkable fact that it has attained this circulation without any serious at tempt to overturn its positions, or to refute its arguments, by those whose views are called in question in the book. There was for a time, a faint affectation of contempt, but that was speedily exchanged for silence. Dr. Dale announces that the succeeding volume, " Judaic Baptism," is ready for the press, but may not be published for some time.—Presbyterian. Foreign—Great Itritatn. —Her Majesty has in the press a third volume, in which she describes the ,Highlanders with whom .she became acquainted in Scotland. It is to consist of two volumes, illustrated with char acter or costume portraits. The only extract which has been allowed to appear, is of the most puerile sort, giving the most trivial particulars of the life and pursuits of a personage of no public coilbequence whatever. —Hans Holbein's " Dance of Death ". is to be the first facsimile reprint, by photo.lithography, of the newly established Holbein. Society, of which Sir William Stirling Maxwell of Keir is President, subscription one guinea a year. Only a few hundred copies will be printed, when with a sort of vandal exclusiveness the stones will be broken. —The drawings of the veteran, and ever busy Cruikshank, which are almost past numbering, are, as far as practicable, being collected into a volume for publication. Although now almost eighty years of age, Cruikshank continues to draw and etch apparently with unabated power of hand and mind. —Sir Emerson . Tennant, • author of various works, particularly "Christianity in Ceylon" and " Ceylon, as account of the Island," is dead. —lt is said that most of the book reviews in the London daily papers are written by young barristers aad undergraduates at Oxford and Cam bridge. —The following works are announced : Ewald's Isaiah, Chaps. 1-23, translated by Glover, 65., Trench's Proverbs, Pee., 3s. 6d., Van Oesterzee's THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1869. Gospel of John, 3s. 6d., Davies Gospel and Mod ern Life, 6.5., If the Gospel Narratives are Mythi cal, What Then ? 3s. 6c1., Saphir's Christ and the Scriptures, ls. 6d., Cottage Readings from Bible History, 2s. 6d., Thorold's Presence of Christ, 3s. 6d., Unseen Guide, The Fruits of the Spirit, 3s. 6d , Windle's Greater than Solomon, 25., Church's History of the Primitive Methodists, Part 1., ls., Ellis' History of the Irish Church, Is. 6d., Me moir of Lord Haddo, 55., Third Vol, of Rev. James Hamilton's Works, 7s. 6d., Beftley's Ser mons on the Christian Armor, 4s. 6d., Reports of the Case of Saurin vs. Starr,. is , Sale's Life of Devotion, trans., I.s. 6d., Watts'. Divine and Mo ral Songs, Illustr., ls. Also : Brightwell's Concord:ince to Tennyson, 215., Merivale's Homer's 'lliad in English Rhym ed Verse, 2 vols., 245., Early, years of tke Prince' Consort, 7s. 6d, English Homes in India, 2 vols., 145., Adventures of Robinson ; Crusoe, in French, 3s. 6d., Comic Blackstone, 181 no. The Continent. —Why is it that the Paris letters to'Childs' Literary Gazette, are so apt to be 'months old be fore they get inteprint? We' , notice that the let-, ter in the Gazette of April Ist is "dated in Decem ber of last year. We quote a; single item,-not of the sort affected by age. The writer, speak ing of a French fyreacher, OEOO, Maillard's, habit of marking in. his sermons the, places.where he should cough, says: "It,seems this habit was caught 'by his congregation. • Father : Lucas tells, in neat Latin verses, of the custom in vogue in his day of regularly coughing like the preacher between the 'firstly' and `secondly' of a sermon. He says, At a signal given from the pulpit the husband spits and coughs, the mother, , 'eoughs with her daughter, the• maid servants and the children cough, and everybody coughs."' —The Gazette, however, has brushed • up in its German department, having, a " Star" contribu tor, to whom we are indebted , for the following items :Professor Piper's 'EvangelisCher Ealen der ' for 1869, from the press of Messrs; Wiegandt & Grieben, of Berlin; comes fdlly up to its prev ious issues.—Messrs. W. & G. have also issued the concluding instalment of Dr:Wiese's "Ve rordnungen und Gesetze fur die holniren'Schu len in Preussen." The author is the leading authority on the Prussian school system.—kessrs. W. & G. have ,already announced an edition of all Neander's posthumous works. "The Expo sition of the Two Epistles ,to the Corinthians " will be under the editorial supervision of Dr. Beyschlag, and the " History of Ethics " under that' of Dr. Erdmann. They are promised at a fabulously cheap price.—The third edition , of Ueberweg's " Grundriss der Geschichtei der Philosophie von. Thales.bis auf die Gegenwart" has been completed (Mittler und Sohn, Berlin,) and its emendations and enlargements render it not only greatly nuperior to the previus editions, but place it in the front rank of all the recent contributions to the history of philosophy.—We have the second or concluding part of Stein meyer's " Die Wunderthaten des Herrn in Bezug auf die neueste Kritik." The work is predomi nantly apcdogetical, and is an elaborate attempt to answer all 'the sceptical objections relating to Christ's miracles and death.. Espedial attention is given to the criticism of Strauss.—A work has appeared by W. S. Schwarz, entitled " Die re ligionslose Schule der Niederlande und ihre Friichte." The author canvasses the subject thoroughly, and shows from offichl documents that not only has infidelity undermined orthodoxy throughout Holland, but that imniorality prevails to a -large extent. —The 1000th volume of Barori Tauchnitz's "-Collection of British Authors" has just made its appearance. It is the authorized James I. version of the .New Testament, with emendatory foot-notes, by Professor Constantine 'Tischendorf, the celebrated biblical scholar, 'who has used in their preparation the three Oldest MSS. of the New Testament, namely, the Codices Sinaiticus, Vaticanus, and Alexandrinus. The volume is prefaced by a very interesting and 'elaborate intro , duction. by the same critic. The work is deli cately dedicated by Baron Tauchnitz to "`My English and . American Authors, as' a' token of esteem for the living, and a tribute of remem brance to the dead:" —The numerous rude dialects of Italy are a barrier to the process of political unification. The Tribune, in a late editorial says : Under the regime existing ten years ago— which it is the redeeming glory of Cavour to have knocked to pieces—when the peninsula was cut up into a dozen petty Principilities, the Italian language was placed under ban. The talker of pure Tuscan was accounted an Italian issimo of republican proclivities--- very danger ous character. The little . tyrant princes did their utmost to prevent its acclimation or use in their domains, fearing lest it might serve as a connecting link among the people whereby unity and national feeling might be prondoted.• In the province which gave the best evidences of ria tional vigor and intellectual progress, or in Pied mont, the prime' minister and the sovereign were wont to carry on all their State and private inter course in the wretched vernacular,of the streets. Cavour and Victor Emmanuel discoursed in the, same " Piedniontese" used by the .porters, the facchini, the cartmen. . . . Even now the fond ness of Italy's sovereign for his •native dialect— "el piemmiteis"—is cherished by . him amid the imposing trappings of the Pitti palace which he exchanged for his former modest chateau at Turin; his salutation of Piedmontese courtiers, Ministers, and friends who most do congregate around him, remains to-day the quick, brusque "ciao," so often heard by the stranger, in years gone, between the passers under the " portici di Po'" and " della Fiera." The substitution of such wretched dialects, differing materially in' all the provinces of the peninsula, in place of the dignified, rich, and sonorous Italian, has been the chief impediment to all progress in letters on the part of the Italian people. Literature in their borders is in a ktegnant condition ; no novels, no histories, no poems, no art criticisms or philosophical essays are latinched from the press. —An association has been formed at Utrecht, under the title of " Marnix Association." Its purpose is to take up the task given by the synod held at Emden, 1571, to Marnix . van St. Aide gonde, namely, to collect and prepare fbr publica tion all documents concerning the early period of Reformation history in the Netherlands. " The information received from London and Emden," says the programme, "respecting the archieves there, leaves almost no doubt but the association will have plenty of materials to begin with." They will proceed first to publish what may be found abroad; then the Dutch records will be inquired into: and the society will not rest be fore a complete collection of all documents con cerning this matter, from the earliest times down to 1600, is in the hands of the public. The or ganization of the Parker Society and of the So ciete du Protestantisme Francois, has been con sulted in forming the Marnix Association. The members will have to pay ten guilders in Dutch money. —lt is said that M. About's pen must bring him in at least $lO,OOO a year. —Lamartine was asked by a friend if he did not spend too much money in advertising. " N u ," was his reply," advertisements are absolutely ne cessary. Even divine worshil (le bon, .Dieu), needs to be advertised. Else what is the mean ing of church bells ?" $1650 IN PRIZES - ,:VOR BOOKS FOR THE SUNDAY SCHOOL AND CHRISTIAN WORK. VIZ .S4OOTOR THE BEST BOOK, OF LARGE SIZE, FOR , THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL LIBRARY. $3OO FOR THE SECOND BOOK OF THE . SAME SIZE AND CLASS, $250 FOR THE BEST BOOK, OF MEDIUM SIZE, FOR,THE SUNDAY-SOHOOL LIBRARY. $l5O FOR THE SECOND BOOK OF THE SAME SIZE AND CLASS. . . $159 FOR.THE. BEST. BOOK, SOAL.LIN SIZE, TO, AROUSE. THE IMPENITENT; SISOFOR THE BESTBOOK, AL I SOTO BE SMALL; - TO GUIDE THE INOIRER. $250 - FOR THE BEST BOOK FOR THE !NSTRUO . 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Size, above the medium. three or four inches in diameter, grow ing in clusters; form rould, slightly flattened, very regular, sym metrical, and rarely ribbed or Ivrinkled; color brilliant glossy crimson ; flesh unusually firm, solid and free from water, weighing from in to 20 pounds more per bushel than other varieties; skin remarkably line, smooth and shining, coloring well up to the stem,—a quality very desirable to those procuring them for the table; very productive and or the finest flavor; bears carriage well and keeps in condition along time after being gathered, re taining its goodness, and free from wilting. Andrew S. Puller, author of Small Fruit Culluriat. We have had an opportunity of testing this Tomato the past sea son, and believe it will prove to be one the very beet varieties in cultivation. C. N. Brackett, Chairman of the Veg. Com. of Mats. Hart. Soo. I have given the new Tomato, Gen. Great, a fair trial of two seasons, in connection with a dozen or more new varieties recently introduced, such as the Cook's Favorite, Tilden, Valencia, Cluste', Keyes, Eureka, Mammy, Foard, Cedar Hill, so., and find it Burnes see them all in earliness, productiveness and all the qualities which I consider requisite in a first-class market variety, and can heartily' recommend It. No person, I think, who makes any of the above named varieties his standard of excellence, will, after giving this variety one season's trial, grow any other. Its extra ordinary beauty and singular richness of color command the at tention of the most careless observer. C. Bates, of Kingston, originator of Bate Early The Gen. Grant Tomato I have tried with several other varieties, via : Cedar Hill, Yoard, Tilden, Keyes, Bates' Early. The Gen. Grant beat all in earliness except Bates' Early: with that it was about "neck-and neck." But for beauti and form, color and compact flesh, it stands head and shoulders above all the rest Planted May 15th, fruit ripe August 6th. Price per packet 25 cents; 5 packets $l. Prices to the trade on application. _ _ rthEETZI CIO ;4 .1. t TKIAI ; =MIMI I: niii:flMl THE NEW METHOD FOR THE PIANO FORTE By WILLIAM MASON, (the distinguished pianist,) and E. S. 110ADLY, is a great improvement upon all previous works, and is'used and recommended as such by the.best teachers. It preserves what was valuable in, previous books, and adds many new features. It is the only modern Piano Forte. Instructor published, presenting the technies of modern Piano Forte play ing. It is easier to teach and learn from, and secures more rapid and thorough progress than any other book. No teacher of the Piano Forte can afford to do without its aid. It is the best book for beginners and the best for those who have made progress. Price $4. 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