The Princess' New Book

-The Prinoess Beatrices naw houday book Trhich has received raueh favorable lotico, also aliares the fate of ordlnary books. ïliö Spectator is a little eevere. It reviews the Work as follows: Tbe worst quality that the designs possess, as it is ons without the excuso that can be allowed for technical deücieucies, i a oertain laek of artistic reflnement visible throughout, Tfip book, iu short, is not that of an artist. and there was no reaion why it shoulá be. And then, alio, there was no reason for its publication. It shows facility of a c-imraon-place kind, uid the resulta of good, coinmon-placo instruction. It shows ft oértaln power of gvoupiug flowers, and a certain talent for drawing them ; and it shows a great deal of industry and perseveranoe. Itdoes not show, in our opinión, any power of design, properly so-califd, any knowledge of the rules or of the practice of decorativo art, or auy hbility of technique, above the ordlnary standard. The Princesa Beatrice, in fact, has produced a book Buch as niight have been produced by twenty tbousand other young English ladlen - a book in which nothlng is specially remarkable, xopt Urn iaignaturp on its titlepag. According to a census bullstin just iesued there were at the close of the census year in 1880, 515 steamers of all classes owned in the New England states. Their ineasurement amounted to 120,177.83 tons, and they were valued at $8,041,250. Of these 112 were owned in Maine, 25 in New Hampshire, 12 in Tarmont, 180 in Massachusetts, 70 in Rhode Island, and 116 in Connecticut. Their crews numbered 5,827 persons, and during the year they carried 15,587,280 passengers and 2,680,874 tons of freight. Of the passengers 57, and of the crew 2 were lost. The gross earnings were $7,918,785, and the amounte paid for servises $2,691,492 The coal used amounted to 375,177 tons and the wood to 18,231 cords. 'J'ha iucreasing namber of convictions for aiiuian outrages iu Jreland, it is tliought, will arouse te;mt farmers to a f uil appreciation of tbe uselessnasa aud lmpropriety of 'further refasal to pay rents and the dauger of indulgente in lawless resistance.