Notes On Liter Pure, Science, And Art.

Edinburgh and Kelso , are invaluable for putting to Cheviot and other black-faced CAves . Many of the so-called Border Leicestersbred in Ireland haA-e been crossed Avith other Avhite-faced breeds , and deteriorated in consequence . The great problem

to be solved in sheep breeding is to obtain , by judicious selection , flocks which can furnish us with both good AVOOI and mutton . The grazing ground lot- which they are intended should be the first consideration

with the farmer . What may be the best for one farm , or oven for one portion of a large farm , will be the Avorst for another . The laAvs of nature are immutable , and the true farmer will stud y them both in theory and in practice . Mr . William Smithjun . of

Bruns-, , wick House , MorJcy , near Leeds , F . S . A . Scot ., and not entirel y unknoAvn in the republic of letters , is engaged on a new history of Morloy , to consist of about 250 printed pages , illustrated by some seventy engravings , and dedicated by permission to *

Sir Titus Salt , Bart ., Avho isa native of the village . The late Norrissou Scatchcrd ' s History of Morloy has been a rare book for more than thirt y years , and will form a valuable foundation for Mr . Smith to build upon . Besides how has society

, changed since honest Norrison penned his then-valuable book for the Press ! I trust that Mr . Smith will be enabled to give us a good biography of his predecessor , who

Avas many respects a remarkable man , and whose two able little works on poor Eugene Aram will make his name forever dear to the friends of genius . I confess I Avill look forward with considerable interest to the appearance of Mr . Smith ' s volume . None of the old nations seem to be

awakening more to the ditties of the present age than Japan , Avhich Avas entirely without newspapers a few years ago , and now possesses thirty-four . In one year ( 1 S 74 ) 2 , 564 , 000 copies of newspapers passed through the Japanese post-offices

, of which 977 , 643 were copies of the government organ , which is entitled flichi-ninchi-shimbun . Thellochi Shvmbm has the second largest circulation . It is said that one of the most valuable of the divine Titian ' s icturesthe "Sacred

p , and Profane Love , " now in the Borghese gallery at Rome , is about to be "restored " by one of the picture-cleaners . Of all the works of the old Masters that have been

through the fingers of " cleaners , ' I wonder how much remains of the original , and IIOAV much is " restored" by the cleaner ! Ancl yet I see no reason Avhy the brilliant colouring of this great Venetian master should be alloAved to be obscured by the accumulated dirt of three

centuries—for , bear in mind , Titian died of the plague , at Venice , in 1576 , being then ninety-nine years of age , while our Shakspere Avas a Stratford school-boy of twelve . Of Titian , Raskin Avell observes : " He thought that every

feeling of the heart ancl mind , as well as every form of the body , deserved painting . Also to a painter's true and highly-trained instinct , the human body is the loveliest of all objects . I do not st ; i 3 to trace the reasons Avhy , at Venice , the female body could be found in more perfect beauty than the male ; but so it Avas , and it became

the principal object , therefore , both Avith Giorgione and Titian . They painted it fearlessly , Avith all rig ht aud natural qualities ; never , hoAvevcr , representing it as exercising any over-powering attractive influence on man ; but only on the faun or

satyr . Yet they did this so majestically that I am perfectly certain no untouched Venetian picture ever yet excited one base thought ( otherwise than in base persons anything may do so ); Avhile in the greatest studies of the female body by the

Venetians , all other characters are overborne by majesty , and the form becomes as pure as a Greek statue . " A curious book , on a curious subject , has reached me : and as everthiug connected Avith Stratford-on-Avon has an interest

for me , as it must for every thorough Shakspereau , I luiA'e lost no time in going carefully through it ; and I know not whether most to admire the

quiet humour , or the evidently good heart , of the author . The little book—consisting of 111 printed pages , on corded paper of good quality , ancl neatly bound in blue cloth , Avith gilt lettering on back and front side , aud "illustrated with eig hty-five

woodcuts engraved by \ V . J . Welch , from original drawings by John Williams , including a feAV selected from Thomas Bewick's Avorks , " ancl sold only for half-acroAvn—is entitled "The Glyptic , or the Musee Phusee Glyptic : a Scrap Book of Jottings from Stratford-on-Avon and els 6 ' Avhere , with an attempt at descrip tion ot