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To Tans Inpaxsstoxs or Lawns—A subscriber wishes to know the best way of taking impressions of leaves, plants, it. We gave directions for the process. a year or two ago, but Will repeat it. Take half a sheet of fine wove paper, and oil it well with sweet oil; after it has stood a minute or two to let it soak through, rub oi the superfluous oil with a piece of paper, and let it hang in the air to dry. After the oil is pretty well dried in, take a lighted candle or lamp and move the paper over it in a horizontal direction, so as to touch the flame. till it is perfectly black; when you wish to take of! impressions of plants, lay your plant carefully on the oiled paper, and lay a piece of clean paper over it, and rub it with your finger equally in all parts for about half a minute; then take up your plant, and be careful not to dis turb the order of the leaves, and place it on the book or paper. on which you wish to have the impression; then cover it with a piece of blotting paper, and rub it with your finger for a short time, and you will have an impression superior to the finest engraving. The same piece of black paper will serve to take of! a great number of impressions, so that, when you have once gone through the process of blanking it, you may make several impressions in a very short time. The principal excellence of this method is, that the paper receives the impression of the most minute veins and hairs, so that you may obtain the general character of most flowers much superior to any engraving. The impres sions may afterward be colored according to nature.
< “Bison MULL£n."—N. 0. Hall, Newburyport, Mesa, has 2 published a very beautiful lithograph of Whittior‘s "Maud 3 Muller.” ‘ g i REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. a The Scour-ing of the White Horse. By the author of “ Tom § 3. Brown's School Days at Rugby.” 1 vol., 12 mo. Bostmi: Ticlmor 113 Fislets. Pht'lada: T. E. Peterson ti-Brothers.— In the Western part of Berkshire, in England, is the huge outline of a horse, rudely cut in the side of a chalk hill. Tradition says this was originally the work of Alfred the Great, to commemorate a great victory, which he Won there over the Danes. From time to time, as the rains and frost obliterate this singular monument, the neighboring inhabi tants assemble and repair it, after which they have a hell day, in which athletic sports and games are exhibited and prises are contested for. Sometimes as many as twenty thousand persons convene at these celebrations. The pro sent volume is a description of one of those events. The book has all the raciness of its predecessor by the same author. We could have wished, however, and so will every MI N1V.W 'lr/¢" Ilcrl Jw‘..‘v‘~/‘v'J r/ . ‘ ff
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us, at large, the result of his love adventure and not merely suggested its happy termination. Hymns of the Ages. Being Szlections from Lyra (hthoh'oa, Germanica Aspdoh'ca, and other sources. With an Introduc
Wnmow Comma—A subscriber wishes to know the tion. By Rev. F. D. Huntington, D. D. 1 ooh, 12 mo. price of window curtains. The answer to this question must Boston: Phillips, Sampson d- (b. Philada: T. B. Peterson ¢fi depend on the material. The very expensive satin curtains, Brothern—This is a selection of the best Christian hymns with gold borders, may be had for about one hundred dol extant, no matter in what age they were written, nor lsrs a window: the terry velvet for much less; and less what the sectarian bias of the lyrist. Many have been costly, yet very beautiful ones, for half that price. The translated from the Latin, and some from the German, the most fashionable establishment for curtains, in Philadelphia, 2 rest being of English authorship. The translations are not is Shepherd, Van Harlingen is Arrison where lace, broca always successful; but the task of translating hymns is wlle, or satin curtains may be had, at the most moderate nearly impossible; and the result, on the whole, is praise pines, and of the latest style. The gentleman, who presides worthy. We commend the volume, not only as a valuable aid to religious devotion, but as a suggestive study in a over this department, is a man of unusual taste, which ne oounts for the superior elegance of the goods of this house. literary point of view. It would be well for our friends, in the South and elsewhere, European Life, Legend, and Landscape. By an Artist. 1 who write to us so often on this subject, to remember Messrs. 1:01., 12 mo. Philada: James Chnllm <6 Sort—The pub Shepherd, Van Hsrlingen & Arrisou. lishcm of this volume, though comparatively new in the f l f flN l l l-fl
Blo-Qmr Putnam—The design for a watch-pocket will be followed. in the April number, by a bed-quilt pattern, printed in several colors, and which was originally intended for the present number, but could not be got out in time, in conse quence of the enormous increase in our circulation, this year. Like the purse and traveling-bag in the last number, and like most of the patterns which are to follow it. the bed quilt pattern has been designed expressly for “Peterson,”
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sensation, if not to overthrow entirely all received opinions respecting the Aztec empire.
by Mrs. Jane Weaver, who, it will be seen, has furnished
various original designs for the present number. in addition to those which she has selected from into English and French mores.
business, are rapidly taking rank among the most enter prising, sagaclous and tasteful of their profession. In addi tion to the present work, they announce a new book on the
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fans are regarded as wedding souvenirs from the bride to her lady friends. At a recent marriage. the fans thus distributed were all after one pattern. The mountings were of carved Q mothcr-o'-pearl, and the fans were of white silk, figured with § silver.
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A! Imorn Purim—Not only the puppy, who peeps into the [mks-t, but that other puppy, on horseback, who is peep in: into the grounds of the young lady‘s seminary in the
CQmor of the picture. See him, eye-glass on nose, as he§ } matches over the fence. A veritable human puppyl
The Ballad of Babic Bell and Other Poems. By Thomas Bailey Aldrich. 1 ML, 12 mo. New York: RulLd (£- Curle lon.-—We have quoted, in another place, one of the poems in this volume; and it is by no means the best of them. “Bahia Bell." " Little Maud,” and various others, surpass it even in tenderness and grace. In a different vein is “When the Sul tan goes to Ispahan,” a poem which fairly intoxicates with its voluptuous Eastern imagery. Sylvan Hell’s Daughter. By Holmc Lee. 1 vol" 12 me. New York: Harper (9 Brothcrs.—The author of this admin able novel is an Englishwoman, favorably known already for her “Kathie Brande,” an excellent novel, which was re printed, in this country, a year or two ago. " Sylvan llolt’s Daughter" is even better, however, than its predecessor. We recommend it, next after "‘ What Will He Do With It," as the best novel of the month. Anne of Geiersta'n. By the author of “ Waverley.” 2 vols, 12 mo. Boat/m.- TieIm/rr (E Fields—The forty-fifth and forty-sixth volumes of the “Household Edition of Scott‘s Novels," which we have so often described as the hand aomest American one extant.
