Globe of M. Behaim-Europe and America.. 426 Globe of Martin Behaim-Asia............. Globe of John Schöner-Western Hemisphere, 430
COSTER, ANNA VALLAYER (With a Portrait).
COTTAGE AND HALL.........
CHAIR FOR FEBRUARY.
EDITOR'S DRAWER.
DRAWER FOR DECEMBER
DRAWER FOR JANUARY
DRAWER FOR FEBRUARY
EDITOR'S HISTORICAL RECORD.
UNITED STATES.-The Autumn Elections, 153, 313.
Senator Morton's Appointment as Minister to En-
gland, 153; he declines the Mission, 313. Resigna-
tion of General J. D. Cox, 313. Opening of the Third
Session of the Forty-first Congress, 470. The Presi-
dent's Annual Message, 470. San Domingo, as
treated in the President's Message, 471. The San
Domingo Commission, 630, 792. Revival of Com-
merce Suggestions of the President, 472; Congres-
sional Bills relating to, 473, 790. Expenses of the
Government, 472. Reduction of Taxation, 472, 473.
Civil Service Reform, 472. The Public Lands, 472.
Patents, 473. The Census Bureau, 473. Pensions,
473, 789. Indian Council at Ocmulgee, 631; Presi-
dent's Message on, 790. Connecticut Democratic Convention, 631. Connecticut Republican Conven- tion, 791. Statistics of the Income Tax, 631. Sta- tistics of Commercial Credit, 700. Affairs in North Carolina and Arkansas, 791. Carnivals at Washing- ton and New Orleans, 791. The New Hampshire Election, 943. The New Loan, 943. Conviction of Governor Holden, 943. The High Commission, 943. Disasters-153, 313, 631, 632, 791, 943, 945. Congress-470, 473, 630, 631, 789, 790. Congressional
Action on the Income Tax, 475, 789, 942. Robert
C. Schenck, appointed Minister to England, resigns
his Seat in the House, 630. Alabama Claims, 630.
Salaries of Chief Justice and his Associates, 631, 790. Territorial Government for District of Columbia, 631, 790. Confirmation of D. D. Porter as Admiral,
631. Representatives and Senators from Georgia,
631. Newly elected Senators, 631, 791. Pension
Acts, 789. Commissioner of Fisheries, 789. The
West Point Cadets, 789. Homesteads for Sailors and
Soldiers, 789. The Test Oath, 789. Railroad Grants,
789, 790, 941. Assistance to Sufferers from the Eu-
ropean War, 790. The Brooklyn Navy-Yard, 790. Ap-
propriations for Public Buildings, 790, 942. Southern
Pacific Railroad, 790, 941. The High Commission,
790. The Steamboat Bill, 941. Congressional Election
Bill, 942. Centennial Celebration, 1876, 942. Consti-
tution of the Forty-second Congress, 942. Southern
Affairs, 942.
Obituary.-General R. E. Lee, 153. Mrs. General
Belknap, 632. George Holland, 632. Hon. John Covode, 632. Thomas Garrett, 791. George Ticknor, 791. Alice Cary, 776, 791. J. B. Magruder, 791. Mrs. Hawthorne, 945. Robert Chambers, 945. EDITOR'S LITERARY RECORD.
Harper's School and Family Series of Readers, 141. Literary Selections for the Students of the Normal School for Young Ladies of the City of New York,
CANADA.-President's Message on the Fisheries Question, etc., 471. The High Commission, 790.
SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA.-President's Mes-
sage on the Cuban Insurrection, 470; on the Peace
Conference between Spain and the South American
Republics, 471; on San Domingo, 471; on the Mex-
ican Free Zone, 471. Caballero De Rodas resigns,
and is succeeded by Valmaseda, as Captain-General
of Cuba, 632. Situation of the Cuban Insurgents,
792. Hurricane in Cuba, 154. Cuban Affairs, 943.
Cabral's Revolution in San Domingo, 632. Grant of
the Mexican Congress to Tehuantepec Canal, 632.
Capture of Maracaibo, 632. Captain Selfridge's
Darien Expedition, 792. Radical Triumph in Porto
Rico, 944. Improvements in Jamaica, 944. Meeting
of Mexican Congress, 944. Columbia and Bolivia,
944.
EUROPE.-Siege of Paris, 153. Peace Negotiations
between Bismarck and Favre, 154. Surrender of
Toul, Strasburg, and Soissons, 154. Gambetta's
Proclamation, 154. Surrender of Metz, 313. The
Abortive Armistice, $13. Defeat of the Army of the
Loire, 473. Fatal Delay of the French, 633. Unsuc-
cessful Sorties, 633. Defeat of Chanzy at Le Mans,
633. The Army of the North, 633. Bourbaki's Fail-
ure in the East, 633. Bombardment of Paris, 633.
Surrender of Paris, 792. Capture of Longwy, 792.
Terms of the Armistice, 792. Election of Members
of the National Assembly, 793. Proceedings of the
Assembly, 793. The Provisional Government, 793.
Proclamation of Louis Napoleon, 793. The Franco-
Prussian Treaty, 944. Napoleon's Protest, 944. Ger-
man Entry into Paris, 944. Paris under the Mob,
945. Changes in the British Cabinet, 634. The Queen's
Speech, 793. Mr. Disraeli's Attack on the Govern-
ment, 793. Army Reform, 793. Vote in Rome on
Annexation to Italy, 154; Removal of the Capital to
Rome, 634. Italy and the Pope, 793. Opening of
the North German Parliament, 473. Opening of the
Reichstag, 945. The Luxembourg Difficulty, 473,
793. Bismarck on Neutral Rights, 634. Rehabilita-
tion of the German Empire, 634. The Duke of Aosta
chosen King of Spain, 154; his Election by the
Cortes, 314; his Assumption of the Crown, 634.
sassination of General Prim, 634. Russia's Protest
against the Treaty of 1856, 314. The London Con-
ference, 634, 945.
ASIA.-Chinese Affairs, 314, 634.
141. Dr. Hart's Composition and Rhetoric, 141. Smith's Condensed Etymology of the English Lan- guage for Common Schools, 141. French's Mental
LITERARY RECORD-Continued.
Arithmetic, 141. Peck's Elementary Treatise on
Mechanics, 141. Willson's New Speller and Analyzer,
141. Estelle Russell, 141. Sand's Monsieur Sylves-
tre, 142. Benjamin's Choice of Paris, 142. The Heir
Expectant, 142. Dickens's Mystery of Edwin Drood,
142. Hitchcock's New and Complete Analysis of the
Holy Bible, 142. Grace Aguilar's Women of Israel,
142. Saving Knowledge, 143. Clark's Work-day
Christianity, 143. Dr. Wilberforce's Heroes of He-
brew History, 143. Dr. Molloy's Geology and Reve-
lation, 143. Lange's Commentary, 143. Dr. Hanna's
Life of Christ, 143. Mommsen's History of Rome,
143. Scott's School History of the United States, 144.
Irving's Life of Washington, condensed, 144. Bonar's
Life of Rev. John Milne, 145. Life of Arthur Tap-
pan, 145. Chambers's Cyclopedia, 145. Appleton's
Almanac, 300. Josh Billings's Allminax, 300. Nast's
Almanac, 300. Beecher's Morning and Evening Ex-
ercises, 300. The Adventures of a Young Naturalist
in Mexico, 301. Figuier's Earth and Sea, 301. Pou-
chet's Universe, second Edition, 301. Weidenman's
Beautifying Country Homes, 301. Herbert's Poetical
Works, 301. Milton's Ode to the Nativity, illustrated,
302. Mrs. Browning's Poetical Works, 302. Bryant's
Song of the Sower, 302. Mother Goose in her New
Dress, 302. Rolfe's Edition of the Merchant of Ven-
ice, 303. Dickens's The Child's Dream of a Star, 303.
Grimm's Household Stories, 303. Popular Fairy
Tales, 303. Miscellaneous, 304. New Department
in Harper's Weekly, 305. The Speaker's Commen-
tary, 459. Bulwer's Life of Palmerston, 459. Thin's
Tien-tsin Massacre, 459. Zell's Cyclopedia, 459.
Konewka's Evening Amusement, 460. Lays of the
Holy Land, 460. Tony and Puss, 460. Eiloart's From
Thistles-Grapes? 460. Which is the Heroine? 460.
Collins's The Vivian Romance, 460. In Duty Bound,
460. Judd's Margaret, 460. Valerie Aylmer, 460.
Douglass's With Fate against Him, 460. Taylor's
Joseph and his Friend, 461. What was She? 461.
Ingelow's Monitions of the Unseen, 461. Weeks's Epi-
sodes and Lyric Pieces, 461. Light at Even-tide, 461.
Thompson's The Theology of Christ, 461. Bagster's
Analytical Greek Lexicon, 461. Beecher's Our Seven
Churches, 462. Huxley's Lay Sermons, Essays, and
Reviews, 462. Lubbock's Origin of Civilization, 462.
Strength and Skill, 462. Lockyer's Astronomy, 463.
Miscellaneous, 463. Alexandre Dumas, 620. Albert
Barnes, 620. Dean Alford of Canterbury, 621. Blunt's
Dictionary of Doctrinal and Historical Theology, 621.
Smith's Bible Dictionary, 621. Pond's History of
EDITOR'S SCIENTIFIC RECORD.
Relation of Blood to Life, 146. Physiological Ef-
fects of Alcohol, 146. Effervescent Citrate of Mag- nesia, 146. The Opossum as a House Pest in Costa Rica, 146. Extinction of Siberian Mammoth, 147. American Shells in European Waters, 147. Eucalyp- tus-Tree, 147. Carbuncle in Animals, 147. Test of actual Death, 148. Microscopic Examination of va- rious Atmospheres, 148. Physiology of Meat Ex- tracts, 148. Reproduction in Nais, 148. New Aus- tralian Fish, 148. Action of Chloroform on Plants, 149. Longevity of Animals, 149. Ozone produced by Flowers and Essences, 149. Increase of Temper- ature by Nervous Action, 149. Canine Madness in France, 150. Typhoid Fever, 150. Mr. Swainson's Collection of Birds, 150. Organic Effect of differ- ently colored Light, 150. Huxley's Classification of Races, 150. Colored Starch, 151. Bleaching by Oil of Turpentine, 151. Cause of Motion of Glaciers, 151. Large Scottish Salmon, 151. Aymara Indians of Bolivia, 151. Glucose in Fermenting Liquids, 151. Organic Matter in Water, 151. Temperature of the Cranial Cavity, 152. Ratio of Height to Weight of the Human Body, 152. Currents of the North At- lantic, 152. Continuity of Liquid and Gaseous Forms of Matter, 153. Nature of the Sun's Corona, 305. Poisonous Serpents in Australia, 306. Hermit Crabs climbing Trees, 306. Danger from using the Waste Gas of Furnaces, 306. Purification of Olive-Oil, 306. Changing the Colors of the Flowers of the Hy- drangea, 306. Phillip Carbo-Oxygen Lamp, 306. Testing Adulteration of Milk, 306. Photographing on Wood for Engraving, 307. Alcohol from Lichens, Cultivation of Cinchona-Tree in Jamaica, 307. Purification of Iron by Sodium, 307. German Method of refining Paraffine, 308. Antíflamine, 308. Physical Geography of North America in the Pliocene Period, 308. Fluid Alloy of Sodium and Potassium, 308. Chinese Use of Arsenic in Agriculture, 308. Graft- ing of Part of one Animal in another, 308. Poison Gland of an East Indian Serpent, 309. Pegging Lob- ster Claws, 309. New Site for the British Museum,
God's Church, 621. Payne's Prophecy a Preparation
for Christ, 621. Murray's Outline of Sir William
Hamilton's Philosophy, 622. Headley's Sacred Heroes
and Martyrs, 622. Hunt's Bible Notes for Daily Read-
ers, 622. Furness's Jesus, 622. Gray's The Children's
Crusade, 622. Abbott's Prússia and the Franco-
Prussian War, 622. Hugo's The Destroyer of the
Second Republic, 622. Renan's Constitutional Mon-
archy in France, 622. Adams's Memoir of Washing-
ton Irving, 622. Mrs. Austin's The Shadow of Mo-
loch Mountain, 622. By the Sea, 622. Shiloh, 622.
Mrs. Charles's The Victory of the Vanquished, 623.
Taylor's Translation of Faust, 623. Whittier's Mir-
iam, 624. Browne's The Suitors, 624. Wiseman's
Translation of Lenore, 624. Longfellow's Poets and
Poetry, 624. Lowell's Posies for Children, 624. Ken-
drick's Our Poetical Favorites, 624. Alice Cary, 776.
Plutarch's Morals, 777. The Bret Harte Literature,
777. Rawlinson's Manual of Ancient History, 778.
Dr. Thomas's Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of
Biography and Mythology, 778. The Recovery of
Jerusalem, 778. Maudsley's Body and Mind, 778.
Mimpriss's Gospel Treasury, 779. Hamilton's Moses,
the Man of God, 779. Macduff's Memories of Patmos,
779. M'Call's Culture and the Gospel, 779. Crosby's
Jesus: His Life and Work, 779. De Mille's Crypto-
gram, 779. Trollope's Sir Harry Hotspur of Humble-
thwaite, 779. Mrs. Prentiss's Life and Nature under
the Tropics, 780. Miss Mulock's Fair France, 780.
Taine's Rome and Naples, 780. White's Words and
their Uses, 781. Porter's Books and Reading, 781.
H. W. Preston's Aspendale, 781. Lewis's Our Girls,
928. Ginx's Baby, 928. The Pilgrim and the Shrine,
929. Barnes's Life at Threescore-and-Ten, 929.
Parker's Ad Clerum, 929. Seelye's Lectures and Es-
says, 929. Washburn's History of Paraguay, 930.
Life of John Adams, 930. Morilet's Travels in Cen-
tral America, 930. Earl's Dene, 930. Daisy Nichol,
931. Miss Mulóck's Translation of Motherless, 931.
Bred in the Bone, 931. Fenton's Quest, 931. Blue
Jackets, 931. Emma Parker; or, Scenes in the
Homes of the City Poor, 931. Miss Warner's Oppor-
tunities, 931. Brotherhead's Himself his Worst En-
emy, 931. MacDonald's Phantastes, 931. The Win-
dow; or, The Songs of the Wrens, 931. Mrs. Clem-
ent's Hand-Book of Legendary and Mythological
Art, 932. Todd's Apple Culturist, 932. Bernard's
Wonderful Escapes, 932. Lady Belcher's Mutineers
of the Bounty, 932. New Materials for American
History in Austrian Archives, 932.
309. Systematic Position of Pterodactyls, 309. Ety-
mology of the Name "Horse-Chestnut," 309. Per- tuiset Powder, 309. Confusion of Names of Fishes, 310. Relationships of Phylloxera, 310. Lead-Foil for Dressing Wounds, 310. Seguin Collection of Fossil Mammals, 310. Simple Mode of rearing Mush- rooms, 310. Detection of Logwood Dye in Wine, 310. Fungus Growth on Insects, 310. Andrews on the Chronology of American Lakes, 311. Toselli Method of cooling Liquids without Ice, 311. Value of Revaccination in Small-Pox, 311. Effect on the Frog of the Removal of the Brain, 311. Comparative Period of Melting of Natural and Artificial Ice, 312. "Allios" of the Plains of Southern France, 312. Breeding Ostriches in Captivity, 312. Ratio between the Size of the Chick and the Egg, 313. Purification of Gypsum Waters, 313. Rate of Nervous Excitation, 464. Supposed natural Origin of some Forest Fires, 464. Man in the Tertiary Period, 464. Cultivation of the Cinchona-Tree in Algiers, 464. Cure of chronic Somnambulism, 464. German Explorations in Greenland, 464. Deep-Sea Soundings in the Adri- atic, 465. Use of Sulphate of Baryta in Whitewash- ing, 465. Embossing Wood, 465. Pale Yellow for Signals, 465. Exploration of Eastern Asia, 465. Temperature of the Sun, 466. Reduction of native Sulphides, 466. The Microscope in Geology, 466. Alkalinity of Carbonate of Lime, 466. Protection against Sea-Sickness, 466. Vision of the young Mole, 466. Aluminium for small Weights, 466. Boiling Point of unmiscible Liquids, 467. Haughton on Ani- mal Mechanics, 467. Work on European Mollusca, 467. Simple Washing and Ironing Machines, 467. Fitting Candles into Sockets, 467. Cerium a Test for Strych- nine, 467. Secret Writing, 467. Fixing Pencil or Crayon Drawings, 468. Fertilization of the Flowers of Rhodea, 468. Sugar-cutting Machine, 468. Sub- stitution of Strontian, etc., for Lime in Bone, 468. Poison of the Scorpion, 468. Rigidity of the Jaws in Drowning Persons not a Sign of Death, 469. Chloralum, 469. Mboundou Poison, 469.
SCIENTIFIC RECORD-Continued.
tion of Heat by Fungi, 469. Ice from the Tosselli Machine, 469. Net-work of coagulated Blood, 469. The Delhi Boil, 469. Distinguishing real from ap- parent Death, 469. Ancient Phoenician Sun-Dial, 470. Mode of Administering Chloral, 470. Halford Method of Curing Snake-Bites, 625. Combustion of Smoke, 625. Hypodermic Injections, 625. Antiquity of Man, 626. Temperature of Insects, 626. Remains in the Caves of the Altai, 626. Homeric Iron, 627. Physiological Effects of Coffee, 627. Non-conduct- ing Handles of Tea-Pots, 627. Temperature of the Earth at different Depths, 627. Colorometric De- termination of Gold in Quartz, 628. Paper from Oat Refuse, 628. Chioride of Zinc as a Paint, 628. Iron Slag Cement, 628. The Sargasso Sea, 628. New Buildings for the British Museum, 629. Protection of Wild-Fowl, 629. Blue Color of Lake and Sea Water, 630. Progress of Natural and Physical Sci- ence in 1870, 781. Electro-Plating of Nickel, 782. Composition of the Bones in Paralytics, 782. Hal- ford Cure for Snake-Bites, 782. Origin of Civiliza- tion, 782. Vaccination in Africans, 782. Shell Heaps in New Brunswick, 782. Geographical Distribution of the Ostrich, 783. Formation of Plumbago, 783. Difference in the Blood of the European and the Bengalee, 783. Tame Codfish, 783. Formation of Clouds, 783. Frogs in New Zealand, 784. Glaciers in the White Mountains, 784. Torpedoes as Means of Defense, 784. Origin of the Phosphate Beds of South Carolina, 784. Development of Ozone by the Battery, 784. Improved Method of taking Plaster Casts, 784. Poisonous Qualities of Bromide of Po- tassium, 785. Rapid Method of Tinning, 785. Weav- ing among Lake-Dwellers, 785. Faunal Provinces of the West Coast of America, 786. Scarcity of poison- ous Serpents in Tropical America, 786. Pegging Lobsters' Claws, 786. Petrel Oil, 786. Transversely striated Muscular Fibre in Mollusca, 786. Fossil Whale in Canada, 787. Value of various Antiseptics, 787. Non-amalgamable Gold, 787. Chloral in Sea- "EH! WHAT IS IT?"
FLORIDA REEF, ALONG THE..
Sickness, 787. Bed of the North Atlantic, 787.
Spawning of Herring, 787. Liebreich's Pepsin, 787.
Destroying the Taste of Cod-liver Oil, 788. Mixture
of Alkaline Salts with Plaster of París, 788. Bronz-
ing Objects of Wood, etc., 788. Dust as a Ferment,
788. Detection of Silk in Fabrics, 788. Removal of
Ink Blotches from Writing, 788. Observations on the
Solar Eclipse of 1870, 933. French preserved Bread,
933. Extracting Juice from Sugar-Cane, etc., 933.
Insects in Hailstones, 933. Experiments with com-
pressed Gun-Cotton, 933. Heating by Circulation of
Petroleum, 933. Glycerine Cement, 934. Acidifica-
tion of Alcohol by Lycopodium, 934. Treatment of
Small-Pox Subjects, 934. Physiology of Mosquito
Curtains, 934. Utilizing Furnace Slag, 934.
nibalism in Europe, 934. Heating Cars by Sand, 934.
Hard Water versus Soft, 934. Explosive Balloons,
934. Theory of Bessemer and Heaton Steel Proc-
esses, 935.
Thermo-Dynamic Acceleration and Re-
tardation of Streams, 935. Killing Whales by Can-
non, 935. Microscopic Character of Iron and Steel,
936. Dodo Pigeon, 936. Action of Ice on the North
American Coast, 936. Weight of Alligators, 936.
The Spectroscope for testing the Purity of Water,
936. Western Tertiary Fossils, 936. Gun-Cotton in
Bisulphide of Carbon, 937. Extraction of Pepsin
by Glycerine, 937. Remedy for White Ants, 937. Im-
proved Photographic Processes, 937. Peculiarities
of New Zealand Zoology, 938. Permanganate of Pot-
ash for Colds in the Head, 938. Skin-Grafting, 938.
Ventilating Rooms, 938. Remedy for Carbolic Acid
Poisoning, 938. Hereditary Deformities, 938. Nail-
nibbling Propensities of the Cockroach, 938. Spon-
taneous Generation, 938. The Food of the Sea Her-
ring, 939. Parthenogenesis in Diptera, 940. Mortar
for Use in Damp Places, 940. Huge Fossil Algæ, 940.
Prevention of Sea-Sickness, 940. Prehistoric En-
gravings on Bone, 940. Cleaning Paint, 941. Freez-
ing Mixtures, 941.
INVEIGLING NATURE INTO A DISCLOSURE OF HER SECRETS..Jacob Abbott 78
..Emma B. Cobb 693
.....H. M. Alden 294
Annie Thomas 215 .Moncure D. Conway 894
..H. M. Alden 576 Kate P. Osgood 378 Laura M. Doolittle 117 .S. S. Conant 233
Lost in the Forest at Night Monkeys on a Frolic... Pursued by Peccaries
Great Crevasse, Foot of Mont Blanc..
MUMMY'S FOOT, THE.....
MY LITTLE NEWS-BOY
NAVY-YARD, THE BROOKLYN (Illustrated)..
From the French, by Mrs. H. S. Conant 749
.....Mrs. C. A. Merighi 271
W. F. G. Shanks 1
See "Pio Nono and his Councilors."
....Justin M'Carthy 120 Benson J. Lossing 753 T. B. Thorpe 612 ..A. G. Constable 66 174
PASSION PLAY IN OBERAMMERGAU, 1870, THE..
Theatre of the Oberammergau Passion Play 174 The Crucifixion as represented..
"Joseph of Arimathea."-Thomas Rendl... 180
"Christus."-Joseph Mair
"Pilatus."-Tobias Flunger..
"Maria."-Franziska Flunger...
....Junius Henri Brown 496
Landing-Place, Sidney Bay.
With an Introduction by S. S. Conant 830
The Courtier with the elastic Neck.
Moncure D. Conway 894
Berthold Auerbach 55 .Moncure D. Conway 87
Thurlow Weed 594 Lewis Kingsley 258 .C. C. Hazewell 277 ......S. S. Conant 336
..Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford 424 .Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford 526
From the German, by C. C. Shackford 608
VOICE OF CHRISTMAS PAST, THE (With 18 Illustrations)..... Mrs. Z. B. Buddington 187 WALLENSTEIN AND GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS.. WED IN THE MORNING-DEAD AT NIGHT...
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