wares in the organs of their trade, where they would naturally be looked for, should retire from business. They remind us of the decayed gentlewoman who called "water cresses," and hoped no one would hear her.

GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK.-The proprietors of this excellent and popular periodical, in the programme for their fifty-first year, 1881, state their intention to have a complete story in each number, instead of one continued from month to month, together with all the old attractive departments, not forgetting the Budget of Recipes, every one of which they guarantee to have been tested before insertion.

HEAVY ARTILLERY.-Major J. C. Tidball, Second Artillery, Brevet Brigadier-General, United States Army, has prepared a Manual of Heavy Artillery Service, under the Authority of the War Department for the use of the Army and Militia of the United States.-"Headqarters of the Army. Washington, D.C., December 10, 1879. Hon. George W. McCrary, Secretary of War.- Sir: I have carefully examined the manuscript copy of the proposed Heavy Artillery Tactics prepared by General Tidball, and the reports and papers relating thereto. **** A Manual of the Heavy Artillery Service, prepared for the use of the Army and Militia of the United States, by Major J. C. Tidball, 2nd Artillery, Brevet Brig.-Gen., U. S. A., 1879.' With the title thus modified, the work will consist of Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, or ten out of the twelve parts prepared, and I therefore recommend that it may be published accordingly modified. The Manual for Heavy Artillery Service, prepared by Major J, C. Tidball, is hereby approved, and will be adopted as a Text-Book at the Artillery School at Fort Monroe, and used by the Artillery Companies (batteries) garrisoning the sea-coast forts of the United States.-I have the honour to be, your obedient servant, W. T. Sherman, General.-Approved: Geo. W. McCrary, Secretary of War.' It is published by J. J. Chapman, of Washington, and Trübner & Co., London.

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A QUOTATION BOOK. - We have received from New Zealand "Quotations." (" Gather up Fragments"). First Series. Foolscap 8vo. sewed, pp. 76. Nelson, New Zealand, 1880. An interesting 'Omnium Gatherum" of moral, religious, and political maxims from the writings of Bentley, Selden, Urquhart, Anstey, Fox, Emerson, Kossuth, F. W Newman, etc. We seem to recognize in the compiler an old friend and Urquhartian.

THE TECHNOLOGICAL, INDUSTRIAL, AND SANITARY MUSEUM OF NEW SOUTH WALES.-This museum is intended to occupy a similar position and fulfil the same purpose in New South Wales which the South Kensington Museum, the Bethnal Green Museum, the Museum of Practical Geology, the Patent Office Museum, and the Parkes Museum of Hygiene do in this country. To this end, it is intended to collect together typical collections of all materials of economic value belonging to the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms, from the raw material through the various stages of manufacture, to the final product or finished article ready for use. The committee of management will be glad to receive Trade Journals, Price Lists and Catalogues (in duplicate, also Illustrations, Specimens or Collections from the mans facturers of Articles likely to be useful in such a Museum especially for the following collections, viz. :-1. Animal Products; 2. Vegetable Products; 3. Waste Products; 4. Foods; 5. Economic Entomology; 6. Economic Geological Speci mens; 7. Educational Apparatus and Appliances; 8. Sani tary and Hygienic Appliances and Systems; 9. Mining, Engineering, Machinery; 10. Agricultural Tools, Appliates, and Machinery; 11. Models, Drawings, and Descriptions of Patents; 12, Ethnological Specimens; 13. Artistic Work manship on Wood, Iron, and other metals; 14. Photographs, Electrotypes, Plaster, and other reproductions of Art. Paroela will be received by Messrs. Trübner and Co.. 57 and 59 Ludgate Hill, and at the office of the "British Trade Journal," 42, Cannon Street, E.C.

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"STELLA."-We have to announce the sudden demise of Mrs. Estelle Anna Lewis (better known by her nom de plume, "Stella "), which took place at her residence, Bedford Place, London, on Wednesday morning, November 24th. deceased lady_was born near Baltimore, U.S.A., in April, 1824. Her father, Mr. Delmonte-Robinson, was a wealthy and influential Maryland Planter, and her mother, Anna Estelle Butler, the daughter of Colonel Butler, of Washington, D.C. Paternally she was descended from the Delmontes of Navarre, and maternally from the House of Ormond. Although of American birth, she nevertheless took pride in the ancient and noble stock from which she sprung. She received her early education in the celebrated Female Seminary at Troy, on the borders of the picturesque Hudson. At a very early age she manifested a strong poetical bias, and proved her attachment to the Muses by inditing sundry stanzas, some of which were of sufficient merit to procure for them insertion in public journals. In due time Miss Robinson entered into a matrimonial alliance with Mr. Sidney D. Lewis, of New York, Councillor-at-Law, which union did not terminate happily. Since the termination of the Civil War in the United States, the deceased resided in various parts of Europe, where she made the acquaintance, and formed the friendship, of many celebrated characters. "Stella" was the authoress of various poetical works, the most notable being "The Records of the Heart" (1844), a second English edition of which appeared just at the time of her death. "The King's Stratagem,' The Pearl of Poland,' The Myths of the Minstrels " (1852), "Child of the Sea," and other Poems (1848), and, though last not least, Sappho" of Lesbos. The latter tragedy has passed through several editions, and, from its power, pathos, and dramatic action, brought the gifted writer not only considerable notoriety, but cordial commendation from the press. Indeed, arrangements were made for the production of "Sappho " on the Greek stage-a signal admission of its merits, which circumstance rather over-wrought a singularly susceptible brain, already labouring under undue tension. "Stella" was one whose character was not readily surmised. People who only knew her partially could not possibly understand her. She required to be thoroughly known to be properly appreciated. She was a woman of strong feelings; and hence, could love and even hate with fervour. The society of men she preferred to that of her own sex, although she could form strong personal friendships even with women who could sympathize with her sentiments. From the tenour of her poems, it would seem as if in early life she had caught

what she herself describes as "The Ague of the Heart." All throughout her poems and sonnets there runs a vein of melancholy, occasionally bordering on despondency. Thus in "The Failure" she opens her stanzas in this verse:"Long have I left the world, each dazzling scene Of joy, and mirth, and hall of gaiety, To seek in solitude tranquilly,

If soul so lost can ever be serene."

"Stella's" study was in truth her world, her "angel-guarded shrine," which she made to suit her "heart's great need" Nevertheless she would go abroad occasionally in company with friends, and could thoroughly enjoy an opera, a concer or a good play. She was a capital critic also, and e detect artistic blemishes where a less attentive mind wo find nought to disapprove of. So her books were "hall companions, tutors, ministers," to which she brought be "overburdened heart." It was for this reason possibly that for years past, except when temporarily indisposed, she was a constant visitor to the Reading Room of the British Museum. Indeed, she was one of the well-known characters of the place, although her literary acquaintances were limited and select. In manner she was amiable and gentle, wearing always a pleasant smile upon her face, exhibiting nothing "the yellow fennel that entwined" her way, "breathing upon her soul the dews of ruth." None could for a moment opine that she was labouring, as she declares in her sonnets under

"Gnawing cares,

Toils, tears, bereavements-inward aches of years." She was a great admirer of works of Art, considering such efforts of human genius as "the heart's best refuge next * God." Her religious sentiments were broad and deep, bet yet unobtrusive. Albeit, preferring for some years past to make England her adopted home, she was not lacking love for her native land, and occasionally referred to America with profound emotion. How fondly she regarded her country is sufficiently implied by the terms of her wil wherein she expresses a desire to be buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn. "Stella" was a firm friend of Edgar Allan Poe, and helped him in his difficulties. In a letter addressed to her, dated November 27, 1847 (quoted in Mr. J. H. Ingram's "Life" of that erratic genius, he writes:"A thousand thanks for your repeated kindness, and, abora all, for the comforting and cheering words of your note. At their last parting in New York he took "Stella's" hard in his, and looking earnestly in her face, exclaimed:-"Dear Stella, my much beloved friend, you truly understand and

appreciate me. I have a presentiment that I shall never see you again. I must leave to-day for Richmond. If I never return, write my life. You can and will do me justice." "I will," answered Stella, but that promise she did not feel equal to fulfil, as she herself states. Edgar Allan Poe thus describes Stella as she appeared in the glow of womanhood:-" She is quite young, probably not more than 25 or 26, with dark and very expressive hazel eyes and chestnut hair, naturally curling-a poetic face, if one ever existed. Her form is finely turned, full without being too much so, and slightly above the medium height. Her demeanour is noticeable for dignity, grace, and repose. She goes but little into society." Again he refers to her cultured mind, pronouncing her to be perhaps the best educated, if not the most accomplished, of American authoresses, excelling as a modern linguist, and very especially as a classical scholar. In character she is everything that can be thought desirable in a woman-generous, impulsive, enthusiastic in her admiration of beauty and virtue, but ardent in her scorn of wrong.' One of the last considerate acts of Stella's life was to send a presentation copy of the newly-published edition of "Sappho" to her distinguished countrywoman, Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhall, who for some time past has been residing in London. The annexed utterances of the heroine of the tragedy, as she addresses Erinna, are marked by a pencil line :

"It is the price of fame.

I have stood face to face with Death-but Slander,
Ingratitude, are foes more terrible:

Death strikes and leaves us conscious of no ill-
They deeper stab, and stab, but do not kill."

Bat two days preceding her death "Stella" was introduced
by the writer of this brief memoir to a literary Irish Member
of Parliament. This was in the Reading Room of the British
Maseum. Her last words at parting were:-"I
am the
English Sappho." a complimentary phrase applied to her by
Jean Cambouroglo, a distinguished poet of Athens. Poor
Stella! Now you are gone-

"To sleep through Death's long dreamless night," bat not "lone and forgot." Peace to thy Manes! May thy spirt find that perfect rest, for which it always yearned, but seemed to have missed in this earthly sphere. In loving memory, S. PHILLIPS DAY. CHILD. On October 20th, in Wayland, Mass., died Lydia Maria Child (née Francis), aged 78. She was born in Medford, Mass., Feb. 11th, 1802. Although scarcely known to the present reading public, she was a voluminous writer on philanthropic and anti-slavery topics, besides being the author of may excellent works for juveniles. Her greatest book is the "Progress of Religious Ideas," three volumes, 1855.

Cavour's Thoughts on Ireland; The Education of Girls, two lectures; On the Importance of the Study of Economic Science as a Branch of Education for all Classes; and Turgot, his Life, Times, and Opinions, two lectures.

HOUGHTON.-Albert G. Houghton, late of the firm of Hurd & Houghton, of New York, died on the 14th of October last, in his 69th year. He was born in Vermont in 1812, and when 21 years of age he migrated to Alabama to join his brother-in-law, Mr. Scott, who owned a cotton factory at Scottsville, near Tuscaloosa. He afterwards joined a Mr. Ready in a general and banking business at Wetumpka, where he remained for twenty-five years, till the close of the War, which of course considerably diminished the value of his property. In 1866 he returned to the North, and entered the firm of Hurd & Houghton, which his younger brother, Mr. H. O. Houghton, had established in conjunction with Mr. Hurd. In this connexion he remained over ten years, till failing health, caused by the severe northern climate, obliged him to retire from the book business. We only had the pleasure of meeting him once, when he was in Europe for his health, but our impression of him was that he was a man that would be likely to make many friends and few enemies.

MINIFIE.-Mr. William Minifie, author of Minifie's Industrial Drawing, and head of the firm of William Minifie & Son, Booksellers and Stationers, of Baltimore, died in that city on the 24th of October, aged 75.

WENGER. The hand of Death has lately snatched away two ripe scholars whose loss will long be lamented. They worked both in very different spheres, yet to a common goal. We refer to Dr. Fallon and Dr. Wenger, the former distinguished by his acquaintance with the Proverbial Folk Lore of Hindustan, the latter by a life devoted to making the Holy Scriptures intelligible to the learned class of India by their translation into Sanskrit as well as by his version of the Bible in the Bengali language, distinguished for its elegance and idiom. Dr. Wenger was born near Berne, in Switzerland, in 1811, and after receiving a sound classical education, he devoted himself for several years to the work of tuition. He was sent out by the Baptist Society to India in 1839, where he devoted himself to the great cause of vernacular translations, especially of the sacred Scriptures, in continuation of the work that had been started by Carey and the Serampur missionaries. His labours closed by his lamented death on the 20th of August, 1880. It is to be hoped that Dr. Wenger's example will encourage other men in the field of missions to follow in his footsteps in cultivating Sanskrit as an instrument for improving the vernaculars, as well as of serving as a key to the Hindu mind. The time was when in missionary circles the study of Sanskrit was regarded with as much suspicion as Greek was by the monks in the middle ages. But that day has passed, and the increased attention given to Sanskrit studies in Europe as well as its connection with Comparative Philology, are showing that Sanskrit or one of the classical languages of the East ought to have its proper place in missionary studies. Dr. Wenger's translation of the Book of Job into Sanskrit elicited the marked approbation of that distinguished Orientalist, Professor H. H. Wilson.

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