Notes On Literature, Science, And Art.

NOTES ON LITERATURE , SCIENCE , AND ART .

BY BRO . GEORGE MAKKHAM TAVEDDELL , Author of " Shakspere , his Times and Contemporaries , " " The Sards ancl Authors of Cleveland and South Durham , " " The People ' s History of Cleveland and its Vicinage , " " The Visitor ' s Handbook to Bedcar , Goatham , aud Saltburu-by-the-Sea , " " The History of the Stockton and Darlington llailway , " & v ., & 'c .

DRS . Wolfe , dimming , and Pickering , have discovered that three per cent , of the people of Glasgow are subject to colour blindness . The operations of Captain Eacls , for the deepening of the lower portion of the river Mississippi , have been so successful that the largest vessels can now pass safely between New Orleans and the Gulf . Dr . Spencer T . Hall" the Sherwood Forester" ivhose genial and graphic

, , delineations of English sceneryhave for many years been the delight of a large circle of readers , has now in the press a new work on " The Trent and its Tributaries . " Amongst the scenery depicted is not only that of the Paver Trent through its whole course , but of Dovedale , the Derwent , Wye , ancl Lathkil , in Derbyshire ; the Erewash , Leen , and the streams ancl lakes of Sherwood Forest , in Nottinghamshire ; the Sowe , Penk , ancl Blythe , from

Staffordshire ; the Tame , from Warwickshire ; the Soar and Devon , from Leicestershire ; ancl every other tributary of consequence ; with many touches of history , life , and character . The book will be a welcome companion to the tourist and the angler , as Avell as for reading by the domestic hearth , in the long , cold nights of winter , when one loves to visit in imagination familiar sylvan scenes , none of Avhich are more loA'ely than on the bosk y banks of our rivers ancl rivulets .

Bro . William Stonehonse , a respected Past Master of the old Lion Lodge at Whitby , established in 1797 , and an actiA'e worker in all that concerns the welfare of that romantic borough , has just published an interesting little book , entitled " Tom Keld ' s Hole ,. " the scene of which is laid in Goathland , ancl which is a graphic picture of the manners ancl conversation of the dalesfolk . Besides its undeniable merit as a temperance tale , it will be A'alued . by all who care to study the folklore and dialects of Yorkshire .

Under the title of "The Derbyshire Gatherer , " Mr . William Andrews , F . R . H . S ., has ready for publication a volume of archceological , historical , ancl biographical facts , collections of folklore , etc . Among his contributors are the well-knOAA'n names of W- . E . A . Axon , F . R . S . L . ; J . Charles Cox ( tivo of whose able volumes on the churches of Derbyshire I haA'e noticed in these "Notes , " the others I have not seen ) ; Dr . Spencer T . Hall ; LleAvellinn Jewitt , F . S . A . ; Frederick RossE . R . H . S . ; Edward WalfordM . A . and others

, , ; many . That certainly fine county seems-having full justice clone to it ; and I hope it Ari . ll have the effect of causing those who . travel in search of health and recreation to spend their money at home , instead of rushing to see other countries whilst their own is little known to them . Those wild ramblers remind me of certain brother Masons AVIIO are anxious to climb , as they suppose to the top of the Masonic treebhurrying through ninet-three

, , y y ( so-called ) Masonic degrees , Avhilst they are really ignorant of those of the Craft ! The Town Council of Antwerp have recently purchased , for the sum of £ 480 , 000 , the art treasures ancl printing establishment of the celebrated