Reserve: A. Brunson.

Genesee-Thomas Carlton, R. L. Waite, J. C. Kingsley, C. D. Burlingham, Israel Chamberlayne. Reserves: A. P. Ripley, E. E. Chambers.

Ohio-Z. Connell, J. M. Trimble, S. Howard, J. M. Jami

by representatives of the Chrestomathean, Zetagathean, Philomathean, and Athenian Literary societies connected with the University. Between the afternoon and evening exercises the audience retired to the rooms underneath the chapel, where the good ladies of Delaware had pre

North-Western Indiana-J. M. Stallard, G. M. Boyd, J. L. Thompson, Wm. Graham, J. L. Smith, B. Winans. Michigan-J. V. Watson, E. H. Pilcher, J. H. Gillett, W. H. Collins, R. Sapp, W. H. Brockway. Reserves: G. Bradley, E. O. Haven.

man-all which were dispatched with great good feeling.

MUNIFICENT GIFT OF BOOKS.-The late James Brown, Esq., of the firm of Little & Brown, book publishers, Boston, gave to the Boston Society of Natural History the following books: Gould's Ornithology, in 16 volumes folio; Cuvier's Histoire Naturelle, in 3 volumes folio;

ers,

North Indiana-S. C. Cooper, O. V. Lemon, G. W. BowH. N. Barnes. Reserves: J. H. Hall, J. Colclazer. North Ohio-W. L. Harris, E. Thomson, J. H. Power, J. Wheeler, W. B. Disbro, Adam Poe, H. E. Pilcher, G. W. Breckenridge. Reserves: L. B. Gurley, H. M. Shaffer. Oregon-Wm. Roberts, Thos. H. Pearne.

Rock River-L. Hitchcock, S. P. Keyes, G. L. Mulfinger, J. Luccock, H. Summers, H. Crews, R. Haney, J. Morey. Reserves: John Dempster, P. Judson.

Southern Illinois Jas. Leaton, J. B. Corrington. Re

serves: N. Allyn, Wm. Cliffe.

Cincinnati-W. Young, J. B. Finley, W. Nast, J. W. Fowble, G. W. Walker, A. Brown, C. Brooks, A. Lowrey, M. Dustin. Reserves: J. T. Mitchell, C. Elliott, W.

Ahrens.

Iowa J. Brooks, H. W. Reed, J. G. Dimmit, L. W. Berry, D. Worthington. Reserves: W. Simpson, M. H. Hare.

South-Eastern Indiana-F. C. Holliday, E. G. Wood, J. A. Brouse, John Kisling, C. W. Ruter. Reserves: W. Terrell, J. W. Sullivan, J. Barth.

Kentucky-S. F. Conrey, A. J. Triplett. Reserve: W. H. Black.

Illinois-P. Cartwright, George Rutledge, P. Kuhl, W. D. R. Trotter, H. Wallace, W. H. Buck.

Missouri-J. M. Hopkins, J. M. Chivington. Reserves: B. F. Northcutt, N. Shumate.

DELAWARE LIBRARY DEDICATION.-In February, 1853, Mr. William Sturgess, of Zanesville, O., a member of the Presbyterian Church, offered to the Trustees of the Ohio Wesleyan University $10,000 for purchasing a library, on condition of their raising by the first of June $15,000, with which to build a library building. Measures were immediately taken to raise the required $15,000, and were finally successful. The cost of the building, excluding what has been paid by the literary societies, in finishing their halls, and including expenses of collecting subscriptions and interest on borrowed money, is $16,437.38. Of this there remains unpaid $3,376.74. The Committee also owe $1,457.40 borrowed money; making their entire indebtedness $4,834.34. Toward meeting this indebtedness, the Trustees are understood to have conference pledges and individual subscriptions to the amount of about $8,154.34, leaving unprovided for a balance of $1,700. The building, also, is not properly completed; it needs painting and stone steps in front, both of which things will be promptly attended to, or as soon as the means can be raised. The style of the edifice is Grecian Doric, and presents a fine appearance. On October 11th the dedication took place; the editor of the

Pornologie Francaise, 4 volumes folio; Lambert's Genus Pinus, in 1 volume folio and 1 volume octavo; Gray's Genera of Birds, 3 volumes royal octavo. The total cost of these volumes was not less than $2,000; and with the exception of the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia, the Boston Society of Natural History is now the most complete of any similar society in the country.

HIGH GROUND.-America is the only country on earth that can possibly lay claim to the natural capital of the globe. The researches of Lieutenant Maury have dem

onstrated that by wind and wave it is down stream from our country to all the world; and that all nations must ascend to reach it. With an ocean on either hand, its power descends with celerity to every country on the sphere; and that, too, from even the deepest interior of

the country.

GLASS. It is a curious fact in science that glass resists the action of all acids except the fluoric; it loses nothing in weight by use or age; it is more capable than all other substances of receiving the highest degree of polish; if melted several times over and properly cooled in the furnace, receiving a polish which almost rivals the diamond in brilliancy. It is capable of receiving the richest colors produced from gold or other metallic coloring, and will retain the original brilliancy of hue for ages. Medals, too, imbedded in glass can be made to retain forever their original purity and appearance.

RETURN OF THE GREAT COMET.-The eminent astronomer, M. Babinet, member of the Academy of Sciences, and M. Bomme, of Middleburg, Holland, have been making some interesting investigations respecting the return of the comet which appeared in the years 104, 392, 682, 975, 1264, 1556. M. Bomme has gone over all the previous calculations, and made a new estimate of the separate and combined action of all the planets upon this comet of three hundred years, the result of which severe labor gives the arrival of this rare visitor in August, 1858, with an uncertainty of two years, more or less.

IS THE EARTH CHANGING POSITION?—A writer in one of the English papers recently stated that the noon shadow of a church tower, in his neighborhood, had so altered since his remembrance that it was now in arrears two hours. A scientific gentleman has replied, and says the statement is a delusion, as such an alteration would indicate a change of about fifteen degrees in the situation of the earth's axis or poles, which would necessarily involve a second deluge, and the ruin of every thing on the face of the globe. He says that the rolling earth can not swerve an atom from its course, nor the great globe of day transgress its path by one degree.

NEW BOOKS. JOURNALS OF THE General Conference of the MethODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.-We have received Volumes I and II of this publication, includiug the Journals from the origin of the Church down to the close of the General conference of 1844. They make two old-fashioned octavos of about six hundred pages each. The Journals of 1848, 1852, and 1856-the latter yet to be will probably make Volume III in the series. These Journals have been published in obedience to a vote of the General conference of 1852. Every minister, and, indeed, every intelligent layman, who would become acquainted with the ecclesiastical history of the Church of his choice, should possess himself of these volumes. We know not how it may be with others, but to us these Church "annals" possess a peculiar interest. They constitute the best possible history of the development of our economy as a Church. Nor can we doubt but that they will possess a great and permanent value. We can only regret that the original Journals were not kept with reference to publication-which it is abundantly exident they were not. On the whole, we congratulate the Church at large that the Editors and Agents at New York have been enabled to bring forward the work in so perfect a condition as it is. And now we bespeak for it a sale which will not only pay the expense, but make it profitable to the Book Concern.

A HISTORY OF MEDICINE, from its Origin to the Close of the Nineteenth Century. By Dr. Renouard. Translated from the French by Dr. C. G. Comegys, Professor in the Miami Medical College. Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co. 1855. 8vo. 750 pp. $3.50, with the usual discount.-We have read with great profit this entire volume. It supplies what has heretofore been a great want in the medical literature of our country. No medical man should be without it. And, indeed, to professional men of every class, as well as scholars generally, we unhesitatingly

recommend it as a work of unusual value. It is rich in all that pertains to the history of human progress-especially in physical science. Its author was a profound scholar, and had studied not only the facts, but the philosophy of history; and a more complete resume of physical philosophy is no where to be found. The translator, too, has executed his task with great fidelity and success. Dr. Comegys has already attained an enviable position in the medical profession in the west; and this publication must contribute largely to increase his reputation and usefulness. It can be ordered through the Western Book Concern.

CHRISTIAN THEISM, by Robert Anchor Thompson, is the title of the work which took the first Burnet prize of $9,000 for 1854, by a commission consisting of Baden Powell, Henry Rogers, and Isaac Taylor. The work is comprised in four hundred and seventy-seven duodecimo pages. Book I treats of the First Principles of Knowledge and their Misapplication in Systems of Atheism and Pantheism; Book II of the Direct Evidences of Natural Theism; Book III of the Manifestation of the Divine Character in Nature; and Book IV of the Spiritual Revelation of the Divine Character-Objections of Modern Deism. The work is a most able one, and should be

in every minister's library. New York: Harper & Brothers; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby.

THE POETS AND POETRY OF AMERICA, by Rufus W. Griswold, Sixteenth Edition, carefully revised, much enlarged, and continued to the present time, is just from the press of Parry & M'Millan, Philadelphia, and forms an octavo volume of 622 pages. It has portraits, on steel, from original pictures, of Richard H. Dana, Wm. C. Bryant, James G. Percival, Henry W. Longfellow, Wm. D. Gallagher, Edgar A. Poe, Philip Pendleton Cooke, James R. Lowell, and Bayard Taylor. A list of one hundred and fifty poets is given, with biographical sketches prefixed, and about one thousand different poems are contained in the volume. In connection with Mr. Griswold's other two works, entitled the Female Poets of America, and the Prose Writers of America, the work should be in possession of all such as desire a cyclopedia of American literature. On sale by H. W. Derby, Main, below Fourthstreet.

THE RAG-PICKER; or, Bound and Free, is a book from an anonymous Boston writer, the scene of which commences in a "junk store" at "the lower end of a narrow lane in the northerly extremity of" Boston, and runs through quite a variety of changes to "a happy new year," and to the telling "of the Rag-Picker's story." New York: Mason & Brothers; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby.

SALLUST'S JUGURTHA AND CATILINE, with Notes and a Vocabulary, by Noble Butler and Minard Sturgus, will find favor, we think, with professors in our schools and colleges. The vocabulary was prepared by the late Wm. H. G. Butler, who was murdered by Matt. Ward, of Louisville, and is remarkably thorough and accurate, as we can affirm from a careful examination. On sale by H. W. Derby.

JAPAN AND AROUND THE WORLD-an Account of Three Helena, Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius, Ceylon, Singapore, Visits to the Japanese Empire, with Sketches of Madeira, St. China, and Loo Choo, by J. W. Spalding, is a duodecimo volume of 377 pages, embellished with eight tinted engravings. Mr. Spalding evidently has had but little experience with his pen, and lacks, in several instances, sound judgment; yet his volume is readable and instructive. His pages, he informs us in his preface, are not a history of Japan, but simply a record from "scattered memoranda," "jottings down to friends," and "from memory," of certain observations made by him in a cruise of two years and a half on board the steamfrigate Mississippi, connected with the late United States Government expedition to Japan. New York: J. S. Redfield; Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co.

THE PRIVATE LIFE OF AN EASTERN KING is a duodecimo volume of 246 pages, detailing the life and acts of his late majesty, Nussir-u-deen, King of Oude, India, and his Court, the Court of Lucknow. A large variety of facts, some of them of a painful and harrowing character, may be found in the volume in reference to East India life. J. S. Redfield, New York; Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co., Cincinnati.

CASH AND CHARACTER: A Lecture on High Life, is the title of a miniature volume of 62 pages, published by

Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co., of this city. It has many pungent paragraphs and fine hits, and will instruct as well as interest all who read it. On sale by the publishers, Fourth-street, between Main and Walnut.

MAN-OF-WAR LIFE: A Boy's Experience in the United States Navy; THE MERCHANT VESSEL: A Sailor Boy's Voyages to see the World; and WHALING AND FISHING, are titles of three 16mo., juvenile, illustrated works just issuing from the press of Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co. We have barely space to say of them, that they are the details of actual experience, and are from the pen of one of the contributors to the Ladies' Repository. An examination of the proof-sheets warrants us in saying that they will be read with avidity, not only by all young people who get hold of them, but with interest by many people having a sprinkle of gray hairs on their heads. On sale by the publishers.

MESSRS. HARPER AND BROTHERS have commenced reprinting the volumes of Bohn's Classical Library, with revisions and notes from the latest English edition. THE WORKS OF HORACE, Translated literally into English by Professor Smart, is the title of the first volume of the series; and the WORKS OF VIRGIL, translated by Davidson,

is the title of the second volume. Both of these are edited and revised by Theodore Alois Buckley, of Christ Church College, England. Other volumes of the classics will be given in rapid succession. On sale by H. W. Derby, Cincinnati.

DOESTICKS is a "demoralized" edition of Fanny Fern "in breeches." We beg pardon of ourself for reading so much of it as we have. The only redeeming quality of the work is a vein of genuine wit that crops out now and then; but even that is of the coarsest grain, and uniformly connected with base associations.

PERIODICALS AND PAMPHLETS.

THE TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COMMON SCHOOLS OF CINCINNATI, which is a volume of 162 pages, sets forth the number of schools, teachers, and scholars, as follows: Two High Schools; one Intermediate School;

twenty District, Sub-District, and Asylum Schools; seven Night Schools; 223 Teachers-168 females, and 55 males; 88,446 White Youth of school age by Census-17,444 of whom are enrolled in all the Schools.

Exclusive of expenditures for real estate and buildings, the actual maintenance of all the Schools for the year has cost the city $120,878.29 for an average attendance of 10,537 pupils, or at the rate of $11.47 per pupil. In this the support of the High Schools is included, which cost $13,047.77 for an average attendance of 251 pupils, or at the rate of $51.98 per pupil.

HOMER is the title of an address delivered before the Belles-Lettres and Union Philosophical Societies of Dickinson College, July 11, 1855, by Rev. D. D. Whedon, D. D. The position is taken that the word Homer is not to be considered the name of a firm Homer & Co., nor a brace of Homers, nor a multiplication of Homers; but that it is a name belonging to a single man, a great poet of antiquity. The address abounds in brilliant flashes of wit, in quaint conceptions, in the keenest logic, and in the most elevated sentiments.

HALL'S JOURNAL OF HEALTH, published monthly, 222 Broadway, New York, has many articles of value from the pen of its editor-W. W. Hall-and his correspondents. On the cover of each issue are these words: "Men consume too much food and too little air they take too much medicine and too little exercise."

THE MINUTES OF THE OHIO ANNUAL CONFERENCE FOR 1855 shows a membership, including local preachers and probationers, of 31,062-an increase over last year of 416. Missionary money contributed, $13,409.

THE CATALOGUE of the NEW YORK CONFERENCE SEXINARY, at Charlotteville, N. Y., for the Year ending Sep tember 26, 1855, exhibits an attendance as follows: Ladies, 202; gentlemen, 402: total, 604. Rev. Alonzo Flack, A. M., Principal, with eleven assistant teachers.

THE ELEVENTH ANNUAL CATALOGUE OF THE NEW HAMPSHIRE CONFERENCE SEMINARY, Northfield, shows an attendance for the year, of ladies, 179; and of gentlemen, 141: total, 320.

"THE FIRST WRONG ACTION."-In your October issue, W. A. P. says, "I would like for some of the profound to tell me whether the first wrong action grew out of a wrong principle, or whether the principle originated with the action." I do not claim to be of the class designated, nor is it essential in this case that I should. The case is plain as it respects man. He was "formed in the image of God," was pronounced "very good," and is alluded to by St. Paul as having been "created in righteousness and true holiness." Whatever else these declarations include, they certainly go to the extent of affirming an entire freedom from moral taint, or "wrong principle." That which led to sin was from without, not within; was temptation, not inclination; was the result of deception, not of intentional wrong. The root of the first sin was the consent to discredit God's word. This disbelief led to the forbidden act, and it to the incurred penalty, which included depravity. If, then, it

is clear, that prior to this act man bore the image of God, and that after it that image was defaced, it follows that the "action" did not "grow out of the principle," but that " 'the principle originated with the action." Of the manner of the origin of evil nothing is known. But since a holy God could not create an unholy being, and since man fell by doing wrong, it seems evident that, however much is obscure on this dark subject, there can be no doubt that wrong action preceded wrong principle.

G. R. S.

THE MIND AND ITS OPERATIONS.-Mr. Editor,-In your July number, S. L. Y. answers the question, "Is the mind conscious of its own existence, or only of its operations?" By confounding existence with essence, he makes out that "the mind is not conscious of its own existence."

I do not suppose your magazine is designed for lectures on metaphysics-still as every one who writes, or speaks, or thinks, has to do with the laws of mind, and really

acts upon a theory of metaphysics, true or false, some speculations on that subject may not be out of place in your pages. Let the readers of the Repository look at this answer.

In our earliest conscious existence we find ourselves occupied with the phenomena of surrounding objects, actively employed with the ideas derived from these sources, and variously combining and separating them. This activity of the mind, in connection with its constitutional faculties and susceptibilities, becomes the occasion of other ideas. We are conscious-that is, we have inward knowledge of all these mental operations. The phenomena of surrounding objects make us acquainted with those objects. We know nothing of their essence; but we know their existence, as the subjects of these phenomena. So, too, we know nothing of the essence of our mind; but while we are conscious of various mental operations or phenomena of mind within us, we are, at the same time, conscious of a personal existence as the subject of these operations. I am conscious of thought, feeling, ratiocination; and am equally conscious that I who think, feel, and reason, am a personal beingthat is, I am conscious of my own existence.

Self-consciousness, indeed, must be coeval with mental action. Suppose the mind to exist in unconsciousness, till, at a given moment, a sensation produced by contact with another body causes the mind to perceive that body. The mind is conscious of this perception, and at the same time must be conscious of its own existence. It knows there is something apart from itself; but this knowledge implies the knowledge that itself exists.

H.

ANSWERS." Mr. Editor,-In the table of "Notes and Queries" for the October number of the Repository, it is asked, whence comes the phrase, “But God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb?" It is found in Yorick's "Sentimental Journey through France and Italy," by the celebrated Laurence Sterne, and in the tender and touching story of "Maria." Maria was a disappointed and demented maid, who sometimes strayed with her goat along the road to Moulines. It seems that Mr. S. had met her upon a previous occasion to the one in which the above quoted language was used.

"She had since that, she told me, strayed as far as Rome, and walked round St. Peter's once, and returned back; that she found her way alone across the Appenines, had traveled over all Lombardy without money, and through the flinty roads of Savoy without shoes. How she had borne it, and how she had got supported, she could not tell-but God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb."

Answer.-One of our literary exchanges propounded this query some time since, and the following answer was furnished by a correspondent: "A clergyman in England, whose appetite for brandy was increasing with his age, was in the habit of calling upon Robert Hall. Seeing that his ruin was inevitable unless the habit was broken, Hall resolved to make a strong effort for his rescue. The next time he called, when he had as usual asked for a glass of brandy and water, Hall said, 'Call things by their right names, and you shall have as much as you please.' 'Why, don't I employ the right name?' was the reply; 'I ask for a glass of brandy and water.' 'That is the current, but not the appropriate name,' said Hall; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation, and you shall have a gallon.' He turned pale with anger, but knowing that Mr. Hall did not intend to insult him, he stretched out his hand, and thanked him, and from that time ceased to take brandy and water."

SUPERSTITION.-One of the superstitions of France is that a fire kindled by lightning can not be extinguished, and that he who attempts to extinguish it will die within the year. The mayor of a country village has during the late conflagration of a barn. He could only lately had to argue with his constituents on the subject prevail upon ten men to assist him in pouring on water. The Insurance Company interested made a present of five francs to each of these ten for having risen above the prejudices of ignorance and an inadequate education.

EATING OFF THE SAME PLATE.-An Italian writer says of the age of Frederick II:

"In those times the manners of the Italians were rude; a man and his wife ate off the same plate," etc.-Hallam's Middle Ages, new edit., vol. iii, p. 342.

Was not this custom known in Great Britain in more recent times, and even in high life? Walpole, writing to Sir Horace Mann in 1752, says:

"Duke Hamilton is the abstract of Scotch pride; he and the duchess, at their own house, walk in to dinner before their company, sit together at the upper end of their own table, eat off the same plate, and drink to nobody beneath the rank of earl," etc.-Letters, 3d edit., vol. iii, p. 18.

It is difficult to determine the degree of credit to be given to Walpole's anecdotes. This, however, is related as if at least he thought it, and meant it to be taken as

true.

"Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,

The bridal of the earth and sky: The dew shall weep thy fall to-night; For thou must die."

These lines are properly attributed to Bishop George Herbert. They occur in his ode to "Virtue," which may be found in D. Appleton & Co.'s edition, published in 1844, and edited by the Rev. Robert A. Willmott.

In conclusion, let me ask, whence the expression, “In the midst of life we are in death?" S. H. W.

"LIQUID FIRE AND DISTILLED DAMNATION."-Can you inform me, Mr. Editor, who is the author of the expres sion "liquid fire and distilled damnation?"