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need not wonder that for a long time it | the eddy of the river, viz., that the was impossible to answer the question matter which flows into it has a differwhether there is any other source of ent chemical composition from the heat production in animals besides oxidation. Only long continued calorimetric measurements have enabled me to fill up this gap.1 This done, I thought it possible to discover also something about these inner processes, by comparing, hour for hour, the heat production with the excretion of carbonic acid, and with the absorption of oxygen.

matter which flows out of it, but in addition, matters which make up the eddy in a given time, change, if I may so say, their chemical value, combine with or separate from each other, without any visible change of the whole system.

is that to which we must aspire. Happily, the history of science shows that after trying several ways to solve complex problems, we find that one of them leads to a higher point of view, whence things appear in all their completeness, simplicity and distinctness. Towards such a point of view my researches are but the first step. Let us hope that the united forces of many physiologists will shorten the time necessary for the completion of the work.

The study of heat production is of the greatest value. No doubt, the study of the vital processes becomes If the ratio between the heat pro- more complicated when we take into duced and the carbonic acid expired account the invisible internal changes changes, this cannot be explained oth- occurring in the body. But simplicity erwise than by the fact that different is not the highest aim in scientific inchemical substances are burned. Each quiries; the highest possible exactness substance, according to its chemical constitution, gives out, when oxidized, a certain amount of carbonic acid, and produces a certain amount of heat. But in the system it is a mixture of different substances which come to be oxidized. This mixture changes, not only in animals differently nourished, but also in the same animal in different periods of digestion. After a rich meal, what comes into the circulation first must be that part of the food that is easily and rapidly digested and easily and rapidly absorbed. Such substances are the proteid matters. Later, the other constituents of the food, especially fat, come to the tissues, where they are burned. Now fats, for the same amount of carbonic acid, produce far more heat than proteids; so, during the first hours of digestion the afflux of oxidizable matter to the tissues being very great, both heat production and expiration of carbonic acid increase, but the latter in a far higher degree than the former.

The animal body may be compared, as Professor Huxley so well says, to an eddy in a river, which may retain its shape for an indefinite length of time, though no one particle of the water remains in it for more than a brief period. But there is not only the difference between the animal eddy and 1 See also my address delivered to the general meeting of the German Association of Naturalists

at Bremen, 1830.

From The Westminster Budget. BALMORAL STORIES OF THE ROYAL FAMILY.

PRINCESS ALICE's husband, the late Grand Duke of Hesse, was much liked at Balmoral. His frank and genial manner won all hearts. "He was always so nice!" A scarf-pin he gave to one of the servants was shown me; a pretty jewelled bit, with over thirty tiny pearls. He was generous to the gillies, who by no means have an easy time during the fishing and deer-stalking seasons; and he did not tell tales out of school. One day, when his party were returning from deer-stalking, they found that the coachman who had been in waiting at the appointed place had improved his leisure by imbibing vast quantities of whiskey, and was totally unfit to ride - in fact, tumbled off his horse as often as he was lifted on.

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Thereupon he was stowed into the cart | has passed the least time here since his with the dead deer, and the Duke of boyhood. The Duke of Connaught is Hesse sprang upon the horse and served often here, and the Prince of Wales is as postilion. He conveyed the party in safety to the stables, and as he rode into the yard shouted out "Take off!" which is the signal for the hostlers given by the coachman. "Take off yourself!" was the reply, and great was the consternation when it was found to whom they had spoken so cavalierly. But, bless you! the duke didn't mind it; and, what was still better, he did not betray the drunken coachman, who was sure in his own mind when he came to that mind that the next day would be that of his dismissal.

It has often been interesting to me to observe the tone in which different members of the royal family are mentioned

looked upon as a son of the soil. I
heard two cottagers talking over a story
concerning the three one day. It
sounded somewhat familiar to me. It
may be an old story; and it may be a
manufactured one. 'But," said the
old dame, who had known them from
childhood, and evidently still viewed
them as a trio of extremely lively lads,
"it was just what they would have
liked." The three had been fishing
some distance from Balmoral, and were
waiting at the appointed place for the
wagonette to take them home. A boy
with an empty machine came along,
and, seeing them standing there, asked
where they were going.

"To Balmoral."
"Would they ride with him?”
"Oh, yes;
" and they all got in.
"And what may you do at Balmo-

I am the Prince of Wales."

Ay? and who may that chap be?" indicating with his thumb over his shoulder the second son of her Majesty. "He is the Duke of Edinburgh." "And t'other one?" with another jerk of his thumb.

a tone indicative of their special characteristics. A lad of eighteen or thereabouts, a lad with an open sonsie Scotch face, talked enthusiastically to me of the Princess Louise (Mar-ral?" asked the boy of the Prince of chioness of Lorne). "She is so bright Wales, who sat beside him, the whole and jolly to talk with!" says he, and, three, it seems, being strangers to the on the whole, thinks he likes her best. lad Others dwell on the goodness of the Princess Beatrice, who is to them a true child of Deeside, so much of her life has been spent there. The tenantry gave her a handsome four-in-hand when she married, of which gift "she was very proud," they will tell you. "At a suggestion that some people called her proud, an old cottager remonstrated. "Na, na! her manner was different from the rest; but she was brought up different - was with older folk mostly. The other children were taken by their governess or nurse to the cottages to give their own little gifts, and they played with the cottage children an hour every day. It was different with the Princess Beatrice. But she wasna proud. Na, na !”.

"The Duke of Connaught."

The boy wore an air of thought for some moments, then he spoke again. "Perhaps you'd like to know who I am ?" he said.

The prince intimated that he would.

"I am the Shah of Persia," said the lad, not to be outdone in this assumption of titles.

From internal evidence, I should judge that this story originated at or about the time of the visit of the shal

Of the sons, the Duke of Edinburgh | of Persia and his suite to Balmoral.

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ONLY-HAIR.

To one who gave it.

'ONLY a woman's hair." There was no

name

Upon the slender packet; and they blame The man who would not bare for all to view The soul of her who trusted him, he knew To whom belonged that curl of softest hair. And thus he wrote, determined to leave there

No trace which to the world might ever show

Who was the woman that had loved him so.
But all who love have relics; on my heart
There rests a locket, and I never part
By day or night with one small tress of hair,
Yet must I tell the world who placed it
there

Within the locket; call on all to see
My greatest treasure, say 'twas given to me
By one I love, who loves me not again,
And show to curious eyes my love is vain ?
And must I own to all that when I wake
I find my hand close elasps it for the sake
Of one from whom I took that tress of hair
Which now is mine, say that I breathe a

prayer,

That God will bless and keep you all your life,

|Hold on! hold on! true hearts! stand fast,
And set your teeth against the blast
The right it stands to win at last

On Patrick's Day in the morning.
Nothing is won withouten cost,
No good God made was ever lost-
And the shamrock's green in spite o' th'
frost,

On Patrick's Day in the morning.
Speaker.

WHILE I WAIT.

A. W.

DEAR, while I wait for you, I would not steep My wearied senses in soft slumber's dreams, As he who hates the night and waits the gleams

Of gladsome day-dawn-nay, nor would I weep

Through the long vigil, that I needs must keep,

With folded, idle hands, until the streams Of love-light fall on me, and its glad beams End the sad watch, or wake me from my sleep.

Ah no! I would my hands had swifter grown

To aid all need my lips had learned a new In sun and shade, in joy and peace and Sweet power to bless my voice a tend'rer strife?

I hold the world has nothing here to do,
It shall not come between my soul and you;
Like the great Dean, I keep your name
apart,

You only know what rests upon my heart.

Academy.

tone

My eyes a deeper pity — this heart, too, This poor, weak woman's heart, you know your own,

God's perfect peace, dear, while I wait for you! Chambers' Journal.

KATE MELLersh.

ST. PATRICK'S DAY, 1893.

OUT of the north, keen-edged and strong,
The wind came down with shout and song,
And raced the great white clouds along,
On Patrick's Day in the morning.

And bursts of sunlight glinted through,
And laughing rifts of heavenly blue
Made our hearts sing within us too,
On Patrick's Day in the morning.

E'en dusky Fleet Street was aglow
With violets-shamrock-tufts- when lo!
Across the sunshine whirled the snow,
On Patrick's Day in the morning.

The white clouds darkened into brown,
Sharp as a steel blade smiting down
Across the face of London town

On Patrick's Day in the morning.

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From The Church Quarterly Review. FIVE YEARS OF DOCUMENTARY DISCOVERY.1

Mount Sinai, some leaves of which, as he related, he had been just in time to rescue from a basket of old papers intended for the flames, where two other basketfuls had previously been con

IN the year 1887 the occurrence of the Queen's Jubilee gave rise to the publication of several historical sum-sumed. We could remember the dismaries of the events of her reign. cussions which sprang out of Cureton's Comparisons were made, from different Syriac publications from the manupoints of view, of the state of England scripts acquired by the British Museum then with what it had been at her ac- from the Nitrian monasteries, in particcession, and persons interested in vari- ular the discussions whether the short ous departments of knowledge were led form of the Ignatian Epistles which he to take note what progress during those published was the true original form, fifty years their favorite studies had and whether the Syriac version of the made. The remark which the occasion Gospels, the fragments of which he suggested to ourselves was that these published, was earlier or later than the fifty years had been unusually fertile in long-received and widely circulated the bringing to light of documents illus- Peshitto. We could remember the distrative of the history of the early cussions arising out of the publication Church, which had either been previ- of what was at first called Origen's ously unknown or had been supposed both for the to have perished. We would call to strange light which it threw on the mind the stir which each successive early history of the Roman Church and discovery had made, and the eager for the materials which it furnished to ness of scholars to appraise the value of the historian of Gnosticism; and, not the new acquisition and to turn it to to mention other "finds," we could reuseful account. We could remember member the intense interest excited the sensation caused in the circles in- when from a library in Constantinople, terested in such news by Tischendorf's the contents of which had been supdiscovery of the great Bible manuscript in the Convent of St. Catharine at 1 1. (1) Hippolytus and his "Heads against Caius." (2) Hippolytus on St. Matthew xxiv. 15. By the Rev. J. Gwynn, D.D. Hermathena, vols. vi. and

vii. Dublin, 1888-9.

2. Die Gwynn'schen Cajus- und HippolytusFragmente. Von A. Harnack. Gebhardt und Harnack Texte u. Untersuchungen. Band vi. Heft 3. Leipzig, 1890.

3. The Commentary of Hippolytus on Daniel. By the Rev. J. H. Kennedy. Dublin, 1888.

4. Das neu entdeckte vierte Buch des DanielKommentars von Hippolytus. Von Lic. Dr. Edouard Bratke. Bonn, 1891.

1891.

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Philosophumena,"

posed to have been already sufficiently explored, Bryennius published first a complete text of the Epistle of Clement, and afterwards the " Teaching of the Twelve Apostles." So we found materials enough for an article on the

finds" of Victoria's reign, which we published in our number for October, 1887. It seems to us now that in the five years that have passed since our article was published the necessity for a supplement to it has arisen. It was a 5. The Apology of Aristides. Edited and trans-natural question for us to ask, after lated by J. Rendel Harris. With an Appendix by giving an account of comparatively reJ. A. Robinson. (Texts and Studies, etc. Edited cent documentary discoveries, whether by J. A. Robinson. Vol. i. No. 1.) Cambridge, it was to be supposed we had come to the end of them. Several lost books are known to us by name, and some of them are known to have continued in use quite long enough to make the hope not utterly chimerical that they might not altogether have perished. Yet the discoveries which we had to relate were not of such a nature as of themselves to justify an expectation that we should witness a repetition of them. If a fer

6. The Passion of St. Perpetua. With an Appendix on the Scillitan Martyrdom by the Editor. (Texts and Studies, etc. Vol. i., No. 2.) Cam

bridge, 1891.

7. The Acts of the Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas. Edited by J. Rendel Harris and S. K.

Gifford. London, 1890.

8. Methodius von Olympus. Edited by G. N. Bonwetsch. Leipzig, 1891.

9. The Pilgrimage of S. Silvia of Aquitania to the Holy Places. Translated by John H. Bernard,

B.D. Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society, London,

1891.

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