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tasto lor good rending and a demand fol
'lows for works that show deep thought
Tho progress of a nation enn bo well
traced by referring to tho literature in
circulation among the middle classes
The write is an inventor of tho highest
order. He and Ii is brother worker are
both engaged to bring systematic sue.
cess out of minute parts. The author
has ideas which he shapes into attractive
forms and so produces books. The ordi
nary inventor has odds and ends of materi
al substances from which he will produce
machines. Euclid invented geometrical
demonstrations; and Archimedes, his
forms of the Mechanical Powers. Now
why is tho one more of an inventor than
the other?
The aim and ambition of the author is
greater Hum that of his hopeful but. infer
ior brother, and he has to pas through
many vicissitudes of fortune before he
can bo at all suro of success. Of course
tho ordinary inventor may not succeed at
first but tho world will much more ad
mire an inferior work from his hands
than it will a most elegant and finished
book full of ideas that should mauc man.
kind happier, and further civilization
Authors theorize and the lower class of
laborers carry out tho plans that their for
tile brains have conceived.
History tells us that the improvement
in tho agricultural department of Italy
can bo traced to tho suggestions of the
Georgics in Virgil. No one can estimate
the value of books as regards our prog,
ress in agriculture, enabling us to guard
against the errors of former times and
improve upon their state of society.
Tho world lias not appreciated real
talent, but has allowed authors, of now
world-wide celebrity, to die in poverty,
their funerals attended but by a few real
friends, or worse yet by hired menials.
Compare tho works of Carlylo with
those of Emmcrson; one is like an orator
ot fire giving no heed to tho rules laid
down to guide a writer of essays. Tho
other is all system, and clothes his
thoughts in language that no critic can at
tack. They succeed ouch in his own stylo
and are read with great interest by all,
though they are direcly opposite. As one
author says, "Carlylo makes the better ac
tors and Emmcrson the belter Hi inkers ;
tho one unites too spontaneously, and tho
other thinks too spontaneously.''
Give authors their duo Tor they have
been tho ones to whom wo have owed our
advancement since time immemorial.
SlMIYNX.
UHANINE.
This is the most recently discovered,
and perhaps the most remarkable, of ail
the coal tar or aniline group of coloring
substances, now so extensively used for
tho adornment of the finest fabrics. Ura
nine is said, by chemists, to bo tho most
highly fluorescent body known to science.
Its coloring power is astonishing; a single
grain will impart a marked color to new
ly a hundred gallons of water.
A most interesting experiment, which
anybody may try, consists in sprinkling a
few atoms of Uranino upon tho surface of
water in a glass tumbler. Each atom im
mediately sends down through the water
what appears to bo a bright green rootlet;
and the tumbler soon looks as if it were
crowded full of beautiful plants. The
rootlets now begin to enlarge, spread and
combine, until we have a mass of soft
green-colored liquid. Viewed by transmit
ted light, tho color changes to bright gold
en or amber hue; while a combination of
green and gold will be realized, accord
ing to the position in which the glass is
held. For day or evening experiment
nothing can bo prettier than these trial j of
Uranine, which are eseci.-vlly entertain
ing for tho young folks. Selected.
The best way for a man to get out of a
lowly position is to bo conspicuously of
fective in it: Jno. Hall.
