umber opens with Professor, Hulbort's second paper on the Corean alphabet, andthe writer gives a table of. the Cream, Manchu, Tibetan, and Sansorit alphabets, to illustrate his conclusion that the Corean alphabet was borrowed originally from 'Tibet. He says: " Everything considered we are obligéd: to conclude that the Coreans drew from the Tibetan the form of their condchanta, that they invelited their vowels, that they originated their own' method for putting the letters together, that they Origivated their own method of aspiration and of hardening and, what is rather remarkable, that they hit upon a purely phonetic" method of abelling." A rude wood-cut vf a Corean dour is added, to illustrate the legend that the Corean iuvélitor of the alphabet produced it from the Intticed window of his study; and, remembering that the circle of to-day' igi tei ley there is not one letter of the phabet which cannot be found in a Corean window or door, Mr, Gale contitiues'his interesting account of a trip 'To the Yaloo and Beyond." His comparison of Corea and' China is not in favour of the former. **Otily the Yaluo divided these two countries, and yet how vastly they differ! Dress, occupation, food, language, everything so new tous! Coreans all idle or asleep, Chinese all awake and busy!" "Mr. F. H. Morsel quotes a state-mout of the German weather prophet, Rudolf Falb, that the 28th March and 26th April, both now happily past, were to be eventful days from a meteorological point of view, this year; and another state-mont, which we have tou much reason just now to credit, that the rainfall during the present year will increase to such an extent as to perpetually submerge all the low portions of the. earth's surface. 'Miss Rothwoiler writes' usefully under the'heading "What shall we teach in our Girls' Schodle?" To the miscellaneous columns Mrs. Ohlinger gontributes'a readable sketch of the history of Quelpart, some of whose existing Featutes may be regarded as vestiges of s former gyhweucracy. The Editor of the, Repository tellg"us that the name of the ex pital of, the empire should be pronounced Savill; and' we also learn from that 'a few Coreans of rank and in-fu once have imported Amierican fruit trees and vittas from the Pacific Coast,"
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.