from a British Museum, where British antiquities are especially wanting, we have no chances in argument. But it is clear that, had the objection been a serious one, or any thing in fact but a miserable excuse for the trustees' incapacity of judgment, the Fejérváry ivories would not have been "refused" also; for here at least we have classic Art of the best and rarest kind, accompanied by historic interests, which have awakened the attention of the most learned archæologists. We have heard enough of what has happily been termed "red-tapism" in many of our institution; it is melancholy to find the interests of English science clogged by the same evil influence; and the learning and energy of the officers of the British Museum subjected to the control of a Board of Trustees, whose decision is final, but whose judgments are either ignorant or capricious-Art Journal, WELLINGTON AND THE VOLUNTEER. Out of the many stories told of the Duke of Wellington, there is one which applies to those elimbing heroes so aptly that we cannot forbear repeating it. And below this distich, "Obadiah Walker, Collij "Christo. Fiddis empt. Eboru. Anno 1617. Patior ut potiar Pretiù. 28. 5d." I fear even the high-sounding title would not realize "Gulielmus Nuttus meus est dominus pretia 16d. Aprilis Another volume states. "Sum Johis et amicorum "--a common fate of one's books even in the present day! At the beginning of another the possessor asserts that he is the true owner of the work whereof "Joh. Jones, filius Joh. Jones," of A young gentleman of family appeared on the some very long-named place, is witness. There field of Waterloo as an amateur, and by dint of great are many others in various hands, some of them, perseverance, and exposing his life very recklessly, perhaps, the only remaining compositions of their contrived to attract the attention of Wellington. authors. If valuable in no other light, they at least Some years afterwards this gentleman challenged show the "furor scribendi" and versus faciendi" the memory of the hero with the fact, and appeared to have been alive then as now; but as slight to take to himself great credit for the reckless ex-glimpses of the school, or study-life, of our foreploit. "True, true," said the Duke, "I remember fathers, I think they are well worth attention. you perfectly well; and I thought at the same time what a precious foo! you were to be there at all." GONE TO JERICHO. The Duke of Richmond was born at "Jericho." in Essex,-one of Henry the Eighth's "houses of pleasure." When his burly Majesty was determined not be encroached upon by the calls of business, the excuse made for him was that he was "gone to Jericho." That was his "not at home." Subsequent writers have supposed that the phrase was a mere joke, but Mr. Nichols with his record sledgehammer, establishes from the patent rolls the existence of "a tenement called Jericho," at Blackmore, near Chelmsford. Henry's companion in his visits to this Jericho was a daughter of a Shropshire knight, "a fair damosell," as we are assured by Hall the chronicler, who "in singing, dancing, and all goodly pastimes exceeded all other."—Athenæum MS. INITIAL BOOK-NOTES. I am inclined to think there is more in the flyleaf of a book than one would at first expect. If one picks up at an old book-stall a relic "E libris Joh. Smith," it certainly is not a very great treasure for its owner's sake; but if the name be not quite so common, if it be that of a great man, or of a semi-great man, the volume commands a higher price for the autograph. No doubt our modern Sosii have no objection to this, but in the eye of the buyer there is a greater value in it than the mere £ s. d. can give. It may be, one can judge of the man's character by his handwriting, after the manner of certain wizards of the present day, or one regards it as an embalmed personal relic which time has not destroyed; at all events, there is a certain undefined pleasure in the possession of such remains. But the value becomes increased, if there be, besides the name, an ink-note in the same hand, letting you know some private feeling, or some little circumstance, connected with the former possessor. If the owner were not a great man, at least he will have been a reading man; and thus, if one does not gain the pleasure of holding converse with a master-spirit of the past, at any rate there is before him the type of a class by no means uninfluential in bygone days. He gains a nearer insight into the every-day life of our ancestors, and a minuter acquaintance with their habits. I was struck the other day, in looking through an old library in the West Riding, to find such notes and remarks at the beginning of several books. This library was given to the school of Worsborough, near Barnsley, by Dr. Obadiah Walker, the Master of University College, Oxford (temp. Charles II. and James II.), a man not without influence in his day, and known to posterity in more ways than one. The library has had other benefactors, as the Edmundses of Worsborough Hall, and seems to have had incorporated with it one left in 1614 to the rectors of Tankersley, a neighboring parish, by Ro. Bouth, Armiger.' On the fly-leaves of some of these volumes are some curious mottos; for ex ample, in a Plautus, "Reverere teipsum, Obad. FLORIDA. J. T. JEFFCOCK. ["In 1512, Juan Ponce de Leon discovered a country of unknown extent, to which, from its abundance of flowers, he gave the name of Florida."] Florida, Florida, far away, May know whether heaven or earth it be, Through many a day To the far off Eldorado and winterless Kathay. Up from the ocean everywhere, Into the purple perfumed air, Melt and mingle and run. gers of the heaths and highways rather than trusting to those of Father Thames. BLUE BEARD. The original Blue Beard was Giles de Lavel, Lord of Raiz, who was made Marshal of France in 1429, and in the reign of Charles VI. and VII., distinguished himself by his courage against the English, when they invaded France. The services that he rendered his country might have immortalized his name, had he not for ever blotted his glory by murders, impieties, and debaucheries. Mezeray says that he encouraged and maintained sorcerers to dis cover hidden treasures, and corrupted young persons of both sexes, that he might attach them to him, and afterwards killed them for the sake of their blood for charms and incantations. At length, for some state crimes against the Duke of Brittany, he was sentenced to be burned alive in a field at Nantes, in 1443. Holinshed notices another Blue Beard, in the reign of Henry VI., in 1450. Speaking of the committal of the Duke of Suffolk to the Tower, he says: "This doing so much displeased the people, that if politike provision had not been made, great mischief had immediately ensued. For the Commons, in sundry places of the realm assembled together in great quantities, and chose to them a captain, whom they called Blue Beard; but ere they had any enterprise, their leaders were apprehended, and so the matter pacified without any hurt committed." FRATERNAL COMPLIMENT. Scarron put at the head of some verses of his own, this dedication: A Guillemette, chienne de ma Sœur ; subsequently quarrelling with his sister, he put into the errata-instead of chienne de ma Sœur read ma chienne de Sœur. RUSSIAN RECRUITS. The prisoner is taken to the Governmental town. The physician examines each from the sole of the feet to the crown of the head. The boy is healthy and free from blemish. "Open your mouth!" The physician peers in with the searching glance of a treasure seeker. The teeth are without a flaw. The physician is just on the point of giving to the governor the report, "Healthy!" But behold! a half imperial, or ducat, is lying against the double teeth. In a second the practised medical finger has extracted the gold from the mine. "No, the fellow is Melt and mingle, and fadingly faint, till heaven of no use, he has got caries-all his teeth rattle; and earth seem one. A VOYAGE ON THE THAMES LAST CENTURY. Then a voyage up or down the Thames was an event to be well considered beforehand, and also to be held in memory for long after it took place; and so important were some of their voyages considered, that the daring travellers have, on certain occasions, by the advice of numerous friends, gone to the expense of printing and paper to place the purticulars before the public. In 1738, one Weddell, as we learn by a published account, accompanied by four or five friends, determined upon a voyage from London to Windsor. A large store of provisions, wine, brandy, &c., was laid in, and, after grave discussion, it was determined that they should start from London at seven o'clock in the evening, in order that they might watch the break of the day in the pleasant country. Their vessel was a barge partly covered at the stem, in the same manner as those of the Lord Mayor and city companies. After running aground, and experiencing some other alarms, the travellers put into port at Chelsea for refreshment, when some of them are desirous of spending the night ashore: this, however, is over-ruled. In the neighborhood of Fulham they again land about midnight, and an account is given of this hostelry on the Thames' bank, thronged with persons of all descriptions, who are here halting on their journeys of business or pleasure up and down the river. Here the travellers sup, and at the earnest entreaties of the sailors are prevailed upon once more to embark, in order that they may catch the remainder of the tide. The daylight discovers them near Richmond; and in course of time, after calling at many ports, they arrive, nothing loath, at Eton, where they rest three days, the vessel in the meantime lying-up in the harbor, awaiting their pleasure. Weddell employs the greatest portion of his time in writing the book of the voyage, and is anxious to proceed again to London by water, but is overruled by a majority of his companions, and they proceed to town by chaise conveyance, preferring the dan within a month he will not have one left." The lad is free? He bounds again into his blouse and his village. The paltry bribe leaves him among his family till the next tribute. But for these golden teeth, the governor would have shouted, "The forehead!" and the recruit have been accepted. In which case his forehead is shaved as clean as his beard, so that he may be recognized if he run away. He stands there like a branded ox on the cattle market.-Herzen's Siberia. ITALIAN THEATRES. The Spener'sche Zeitung contains an interesting article on the statistics of the Italian stage, according to which the total number of Italian theatres amounts to 117. Of these, 95 are in Italy (viz., in Lombardy, 28 in 20 towns; in Sardinia, 20 in 17 towns; in Naples and Sicily, 9 in 6 towns; in the Papal States, 16 in 11 towns; in Tuscany, 16 in 8 towns; in Lucea, the remaining 22 are scattered over the globe. Of 1; in Parma, 2; in Modena, 2; in Corsica, 1;) and these latter, we find 6 in Spain and Portugal (at Madrid alone there are 3), 6 in Greece, Turkey, and the Ionian Islands, 3 in Russia, 1 in England (London), 1 in France (Paris), 1 in Denmark (Copenhagen), 1 in Holland (Amsterdam), 1 in Germany (Vienna), 1 in Africa (Algiers), 1 in America (Rio Janeiro). Ít needs scarcely to be mentioned, that by far the greatest part of these theatres are exclusively dedicated to operatic performances. Reform Bill, The Times now monopolizes nearly three fourths of it. From 2,744,000 in 1835, it has now amounted to 18,350,000 in 1855, supposing the latter half of the year to equal the first half-an increase of nearly six hundred per cent. A large portion of this increase has been at the expense of the other daily newspapers, as the aggregate circulation of the London Daily Press has not kept pace with the increase which has taken place in the consumption of newspapers throughout the country generally. During the last thirty years, the total circulation of the London Daily Press has not increased much more than sixty per cent., while the total consumption of newspapers in Great Britain for the same period, is not less than three hundred per cent. above what it was at the former period. When Lord John Russell brought forward his motion in favor of Parliamentary Reform, in 1822, he referred to the increased circulation of newspapers as an argument for the extension of the suffrage. There were, at that time, he said, no less than 23,600,000 newspapers circulated annually in the United Kingdom, which was more than double what the consumption had been thirty years previously. Of these 23,600,000, the London daily journals sold not less than 14,000,000 or about sixty per cent. of the whole. At present, in spite of the enormous sale of The Times, the aggregate circulation of the London Daily Press does not form more than twenty-five per cent. of the whole of the newspapers consumed annually in the United Kingdom. This difference in the relative proportion of the London Daily Press to the aggregate circulation, is chiefly owing to the more rapid increase of London and provincial weekly newspapers, especially the latter class. The fact is interesting to the politician and the statesman, in so far as it serves to show the strong Anglo-Saxon tendency to individualization, as opposed to the Gallic love of centralization. We have no means of comparing the Paris and provincial circulation of newspapers; but it would surprise us very much to find the French provincial newspapers forming anything like the same proportion of the aggregate circulation as they constitute in Great Britain.- Westminster Review. NOTES AND QUERIES. [This department of the CRITERION will be devoted to the record of such odds and ends of curious and novel information as our contributors or ourselves may find in reading, and will also be a medium of communication between our readers for the suggesting and answering of questions relating to subjects which may possess a general interest. Much of the attractiveness of our "Notes and Queries" must of course depend upon the kind favors of contributors, to whom we shall feel obliged for any assistance. It will hardly be necessary to remark that this department is not intended to answer trivial questions which some correspondents occasionally propose for editorial solution; and we shall no doubt be excused for neglecting to reply to any query concerning the quickest trip across the Atlantic, the highest ascension in a balloon, or generally such information as may be required for the prosecution of suits in the lower courts.] the peace remained in Charleston and married Ann Loughton Smith-his father, Angus Fraser, married his cousin, Jean Fraser, the sister of General Fraser who fell at Saratoga, Society Hill, S. C., Nov. 1855. MESSRS. EDITORS.-Your correspondent, John P—, desired nature,' and why it was selected to signify what it does?" to be informed "what is the precise signification of the word Carus, in his work "Von den Urtheilen des Knochen und Scha len Gerüstes," 1825, section 6, defines nature to be "that which is ever growing, and ever unfolding itself in new forms;" and lest your correspondent may not be satisfied to accept this author as sufficient authority, I may as well add for his satisfaction that Humboldt, in his "Cosmos," (introduction, p. 41,) quotes and adopts the same definition. Thus the first part of the question is answered (I trust to the satisfaction of the inquirer) by the highest authority. In regard to the latter part,-why it is used to signify what it does,-as the originator of the term does not seem to have put on record his reasons for so using it, permit me to exercise the privilege of a Yankee and reply to the latter part of it by asking another question, upon which a satisfactory solution of his will in a great measure depend. My query is one which, though very frequently made since it was first proposed by Shakspeare, has never yet been, answered. It is, "Oh Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Awaiting his reply, I subscribe myself, EDITOR CRITERION.-Can you inform me whether Sir Thomas Wyatt translated the Bible into the English language, and also give me some information concerning him? INQUIRER. Sir Thomas Wyatt, "the delight of the Muses and Mankind," to whom you allude, was born in 1503, and died in his thirtyeighth year, as it is expressed, "To the great Reluctancy of his King, Kingdom, his Friends and all that knew the great Worth and Virtue of the Person." He did not translate the Bible, at least we do not find it mentioned, but wrote considerable poetry and translated the Psalms of David. Leland, the antiquary, whose "Itinerary," edited by Thomas Hearne, was printed at Oxford from the MS. in the Bodleian Library, says of him: Bella suum merito jactet Florentia Dantem, Which has been rudely translated thus: Let Florence fair her Dantes justly boast, In Cotton Mather's "Magnalia Christi" is the following among other instances of the peculiar operations of witches in those days. To the learned in Diablerie it may be unnecessary to state that a sure method of detecting the witch, was considered to be the wounding of the ghost or spirit, and then finding some suspicious old dame who had an infliction which corresponded to what the wound might have made. Cotton Mather transcribes from an account written by John Hales, of whom he remarks: "I will assure the Reader that he hath now to do with a Writer who would not for a World be guilty of over-deing the Truth in an History of this importance." "There was a Man much troubled in the Night with Cats, or the Devil in their Likeness, haunting of him. Whereupon he kept a Light burning, and a Sword by him, as he lay in Bed; for he suspected a Widow-Woman to send these Cats or Imps by Witchcraft, to bewitch him. And one Night as he lay in Bed, a Cat or Imp, came within his Reach, and he struck her on the Back: and upon Enquiry he heard this Widow had a sore Back. 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PLEASANTLY situated on the outskirts of the village, Cloth. BOOKS IN PRESS. folio volume. THE LANCES OF LYNWOOD. By the Author of "The SUSAN MERTON. By the Author of "Christie Johnson." NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION OF AN AMERICAN Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, performed in the THE HOLY GOSPELS, illustrated in Forty Original Designs. THE SCENERY OF THE UNITED STATES. Illustrated commanding a fine view of the River, and affording the advantages of quiet retirement, together with as convenient access to Steamboat and Railroad, as any other School in the village. The course of Instruction will comprise all the Branches usually taught at our best Academies; and as an assurance of Mr. O'R's, determination to establish a really good School, he has abolished all extra charges for Ancient or Modern Languages, so that French, that passport in all civilized countries on the Globe, will, as far as practicable, be the language of the School, and no longer subject to the usual exorbitant charge, thus presenting facilities for improvement seldom offered, even by Institutions supported by the State. Latin and Greek will be taught by the Principal himself, and To gentlemen, to those who know him "Verbum Sat." strangers to him, he may say, that an experience of ten years in fitting young gents for college (and usually with much success), ought to entitle him to their patronage. The Mathematics are under the charge of a gentleman eminently qualified to train the mind of youth in analyzing the principles and unfolding the laws of science. The general studies, including Definitions, Geography, History, English Grammar, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, &c., together with Reading, Elocution and Penmanship, will be attended to by the Principal himself, who confesses himself "Utilitarian" enough to oppose a student's throwing away his time under some distinguished German Strakosch, or French dancing master, before he becomes familiar with the rudiments of a common education. As his present house is small, though convenient, Mr. O'Reilly would not receive more than Fifteen Boarders into his family, and the whole number of the School at no time should exceed Twenty-five-a number which, although small, would yet allow him to pursue his usually successful course of matching boys of nearly equal attainments against each other, and thus producing an emulation in his classes which has always been attended with success. As Mr. O'R. is, and has always been, a practical Teacher, he will not pretend to debit any plausible theories on Education, perfectly convinced that the only air line to knowledge consists in the discipline, energy and skill of the Teacher, combined with the most implicit confidence, and untiring industry of the Student. The following is the regular routine of studies, in their order of recitation, at Mr. O'R's School :-Definitions, Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, both oral and written; Algebra, English Grammar, Parker's Natural Philosophy, Latin and Greek, Geography, History of the United States, History of Middle Ages (Greene's), French, almost entirely oral (Ollendorff's method); Spanish (Ollendorff's method), Constitution of the United States Geometry (Playfair's), Physiology, (Cutter's). Dictation and DefiniSCHOOL SESSIONS FOR BOARDERS. Hewett's Illuminated Household Stories for Little Folks, tions every morning. JACK AND THE BEAN STALK. LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD. GOODY TWO SHOES. The year is divided into two sessions of five months eachthe Winter one beginning on the first Monday in November, and the Summer one on the first Monday in May, thus allowing the months of April and October for vacation, as also a week at Christmas. TERMS. The charges are $100 per Session, which includes Board, Washing, and Tuition in all the Branches taught in the School. Each Student must provide his own Books, and also Towels, Napkins, Fork and Spoon, &c., &c. For Day Scholars, the terms are $10 per quarter of eleven weeks, payable half in advance-each boy to procure his own books. Any information not given herein, may be obtained by addressing the Principal. REFERENCES. Sing-Sing. Mrs. Kane, near the village of Sing-Sing. Rev. W. S. Mikels, Sing-Sing. Dr. Wm. N. Belcher, Sing-Sing. L. Workman, Esq., Sing-Sing. J. W. Robinson, Esq., late Postmaster at Sing-Sing. J. K. Herrick, Esq., 25 Rutger's Place, New York. W. Herrick, Esq., 78 John Street, New York. 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