Cauliflowe In the Pall Mall we have, besides an in. finity of other excellent matter, a resume of a lecture recently delivered' by Baron Hiibner, the Austrian diplomatist and tra. veller. "The Baron takes a wide view of humanity and its torreatrial destiny. Under the heading, The Probleme of the Future," he says Europe with its population of 300, China with "ite 400 millions, form (India being excepted) the two great over-populated regions of the world, Bath send their children among strangers, They form two mighty the white and the yellow, A 8 question out of these phenomena. What will be the state of the old continent has give off so many of its sons?
though now suffering from fulness of {ter such bleeding enjoy full health, pain fall into lethargy? Who knows is the fate in store for the young, energetic, rising States of Australasia, which are neither kingdoms nor republics?" What inflaence will th their tura exercise in their mother country and in Europe? Will Christian society and Christian civilization in present form disappear, or will they emerge victorious from the conflict, and carry their eternal principles, animating and fractifying over the whole globe? The curtain is not yet raised; the acts will be played in the twentieth century."
In the Athencum we find several stiff reviews, the most attractive of which is that which deals with Commander Schley's and Professor Soley's 'Rescue of Greely.' Like all records of Arctic exploration the book has a terrible fascination. The following verses, headed 'In the Town,' are rather pretty for the Spring, the pale, pure, gladdenia, long for it, Spring!
And wasteful longing, And sink in weariness: the eong birds sing In vain, the yellow cowalips withering Make wy and heart to wither, usy, to ion Time, you will not hear reply, A and fading visions'no fruits bring. Here Summer wears her grey and faded green jiied her wild wreaths are; veiled: too 'Sammer die like Spring, nor more'
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La prisoner still lament she di ea nor song nor sight that is not vain. We conclude as usual with some items from the column of Literary Gossip The volume con General Garden j which will be published.on, the cludes, in addition to the jouriala indices of documenite ti Arabic. Among them is a letter from the Mahdi to General Gordon, telling him of the destruction of the steamer Abbas and the deaths of Col, Stewart and the Consuls, and giving a precis of the documents taken with them, This precis constitutes the only record of them aa well as of the stores in Khartoum at that time.—Wo lear that the arrangement, which has been made for the publica United States of General ures the payment to him of a dollar for ery copy of the work which may be sold. It is believed that an unprecedented ill take the generat lace, and that the royalty will yield to and his family' a sum of thousand dollars,—Th ists are again g pilgrimages to places associated with the memory of great addresses will next, Juno lst, to Chi (John Milton, and William Penn); on July 12th to Highgate (Oliver Cromwell) and Hampstead (Juhu Harrison); on 2ud August to Stratford-on-Avon, when an address will be delivered by Mr, Vernon ington, Q.C.; on August 23rd to sor. 'The death of Auguste Comte will be commemorated on Saturday, Sep-tomber Sth, by a pilgrimage to Westminster Abbey, and subsequently an address will be given at Newton Hall, by Prof, Beesly, on ¢ Life and Work of Auguste Comte,'
Winged Words' is the title of a volume by the Rev. Il. R. Waweis, which Messrs. Isbister will publish immediately.
divided into two perla: the fiat, deals with the home life and its cond, "Credo," with the its problem ho Rev. Hilderic Friend's new book, Ministry of Flowers,' will be issued in an illustrated form by Messrs. Swan Sonnenschein & Ca. during the course of this month.—We re-ret to hear of the death of the Rey. Edwin Paxton Hood, who wrote a bio: fir id Writings,' ¢ World of Moral phy of Wordsworth, Isaac Watts, his
and Religivus Anecdote,' a 'Life of Swedenborg,' and many other works, He w: at one time editor of the Kelectic Review.
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