Anyone who has chanced to pass from the Bolhovsky district into the Zhizdrinsky district, must have been impressed by the striking difference between the race of people in the province of Orel and the population of the province of Kaluga. The peasant of Orel is not tall, is bent in figure, sullen and suspicious in his looks; he lives in wretched little hovels of aspen-wood, labours as a serf in the fields, and engages in no kind of trading, is miserably fed, and wears slippers of bast: the rent-paying peasa

The world wa world war represents not the triumph, but the birth of democracy. The true ideal of democracy-the rule of a people by the demos, or group soul-is a thing unrealized. How then is it possible to consider or discuss an architecture of democracy-the shadow of a shade? It is not possible to do so with any degree of finality, but by an intention of consciousness upon this juxtaposition of ideas-architecture and democracy-signs of the times may yield new meanings, relations may emerge between things a

For a an adult person to be unable to swim points to something like criminal negligence; every man, woman and child should learn. A person who can not swim may not only become a danger to himself, but to some one, and perhaps to several, of his fellow beings. Children as early as the age of four may acquire the art; none are too young, none too old. Doctors recommend swimming as the best all-around exercise. It is especially beneficial to ner vous people. Swimming reduces corpulency, improves the figure, ex

Suppose you should wake up Christmas morning and find yourself to be the owner of a bicycle. It is a brandnew wheel and ever ything is in perfect working order. The bearings are well oiled, the nickel is bright and shiny and it is all tuned up and ready for use. If you are a careful, sensible boy you can have fun with it for a long time until finally, like the One Hoss Shay in the poem, it wears out and goes to pieces all at once. On the other hand, if you are careless or indifferent or lazy you may allow t

Architecture may be described as building at its best, and when we talk of the architecture of any city or countr y we mean its best, noblest, or most beautiful buildings; and we imply by the use of the word that these buildings possess merits which entitle them to rank as works of art. The architecture of the civilised world can be best understood by considering the great buildings of each important nation separately. The features, ornaments, and even forms of ancient buildings differed just as the speech,

The truth of the Greek p truth of the Greek proverb, that a great book is a great evil, is no where more apparent than in the construction of works on agricultural concerns. Those who have attended to the subject well know, that the profitable management of live-stock is by far the most difficult branch of farming, as it is here that improvement is peculiarly tardy ; and from this we might infer that authors would endeavour so to arrange and simplify their treatises as to enable ever y one to obtain the bea

It is only when a building entirely fulfils the purpose for which it is intended and bears the impress of a genuine style that it takes rank as a work of architecture. This definition, exclusive though it at first sight appears, brings within the province of the art ever y structure which combines with practical utility beauty of design and execution, from the humblest cottage to the most dignified temple or palace. Suitability of material and harmony with its surroundings are among the minor factors that g

Such steep ground exists in many countries, and where it does, a like plan must be followed. The strictly formal in such ground is as right in its way as the lawn in a garden in the Thames valley. But the lawn is the heart of the true English garden, and as essential as the terrace is to the gardens on the steep hills. English lawns have too often been destroyed that geometrical gardens may be made where they are not only needless, but harmful both to the garden and home landscape. Sometimes on level groun

The first volume published b by the Boone and Crockett Club, under the title American Big Game Hunting, confined itself, as its title implied, to sport on this continent. In presenting the second volume, a number of sketches are included written by members who have hunted big game in other lands. The contributions of those whose names are so well known in connection with explorations in China and Tibet, and in Africa, have an exceptional interest for men whose use of the rifle has been confined entirely to

In 1876 the eminent microscopist, Professor Cohn of Breslau, was in London, and he then handed me a number of his 'Beiträge,' containing a memoir by Dr. Koch on Splenic Fever (Milzbrand, Charbon, Malignant Pustule), which seemed to me to mark an epoch in the history of this formidable disease. With admirable patience, skill, and penetration, Koch followed up the life histor y of bacillus anthracis, the contagium of this fever. At the time here referred to he was a young physician holding a small appointment

Among the wonderful monuments to which the religious art of the middle ages has given rise and which will for everexcite the admiration of men, the church of Notre-Dame or Cathedral of Strasburg occupies one of the first ranks. By its dimensions, the richness of the ornaments and figures that adorn its exterior, by the majesty of its nave, and by its light steeple, which towers towards Heaven with as much grace as boldness, this house of God proclaims afar its destination and leaves a deep and indelible imp

When we remember that sound health is the foundation of every other good, of all work fruitful and enjoyed, weof wesee that in this field new knowledge and new skill havesee have won their most telling victories. Pain, long deemed aswon asinevitable as winter's cold, has vanished at the chemist'sinevitable chemist's bidding: the study of minutest life is resulting in measuresbidding: measures which promise to rid the world of consumption itself. Dr. Billings's masterly review of medical progress during theB

In general there exists between the two orders a rigorous proportion; where the one is very marked, therigorous theother is put forth with energy. In the series of living beings,the animal, which feels the most, moves also the most. Thethe Theage of lively perception, is that also of vivacity of motion; inage in sleep, where the first order is suspended, the second ceases, or is exercised only with irregularity. The blind man, whoor who is but half alive to what surrounds him, moves also with ais a tardines

Kadı ne kadar konuşursan konuş hep aynı yerdedir. Bey yargılanamaz. Bekir şu adamı biraz daha anlamak ister. Kadı da yargılanamaz öyle mi, bey denen o soytarı nerede, nereye kaçırdınız, ya da nerede saklıyorsunuz? Kadı çok vurduduymaz, hala kendisini beyin yargıcı zannediyor ki adam bir kibir abidesi. Bilsek te söylemeyiz. Bekir adamlara bakar, burada emniyette olduğundan emin. Şimdi benim adaletim başladı mı bülbül gibi ötersiniz, beyinizin zindanından başlayalım, eseriniz olan zindan. O zindanda eseriniz

We learn to talk, much about the same time that we learn to walk, but talking requires less muscular effort than walking, and makes generally less demand upon our powers. A man may talk a long while before he has done the equivalent of a five-mile walk; it is natural, therefore, that we should have had more practice in talking than in walking, and hence that we should find it harder to pay attention to our words than to our steps. Certainly it is ver y hard to become conscious of every syllable or indeed of

In practical medicine the term anæmia has not quite the restricted sense that scientific investigation gives it. The former regards certain striking symptoms as characteristic of the anæmic condition; pallor of the skin, a diminution of the normal redness of the mucous membranes of the eyes, lips, mouth, and phar ynx. From the presence of these phenomena anæmia is diagnosed, and according to their greater or less intensity, conclusions are also drawn as to the degree of the poverty of the blood. It is evide

That the phenomena of vegetation are dependent on certain chemical changes occurring in the plant, by which the various elements of its food are elaborated and converted into vegetable matter, was ver y early recognised by chemists; and long before the correct principles of that science were established, Van Helmont maintained that plants derived their nourishment from water, while Sir Kenelm Digby, Hook, Bradley, and others, attributed an equally exclusive influence to air, and enlarged on the practical i

No one c one can look at a map of the Iberian Peninsula without being struck by the curious way in which it is unequally divided between two independent countries. Spain occupies by far the larger part of the Peninsula, leaving to Portugal only a narrow strip on the western seaboard some one hundred miles wide and three hundred and forty long. Besides, the two countries are separated the one from the other by merely artificial boundaries. The two largest rivers of the Peninsula, the Douro and the Tagus, ris

In this book the writer thereof seeks to convey to women particularly to young wives and women expecting to be married certain important facts of knowledge, certain necessar y information, which all such women should possess, but which few are given the opportunity to acquire. It would seem to require no argument to convince a rational individual that before a woman is capable of intelligent motherhood she should be made acquainted with the physiological processes which are involved in the sexual functions

I am more and more impressed with the necessity of inspiration in life if we are to be strong and serene, and so fin ally escape the pitfalls of worr y and conscience. By inspirations I do not mean belief in any system or creed. It is not a stated belief that we need to begin with; that may come in time. We need first to find in life, or at least in nature, an essential beauty that makes its own true, inevitable response within us. We must learn to love life so deeply that we feel its tremendous significanc