EARTH'S ORBITAL MOTION. No theory of planetary motion is properly called scientific which fails to recognize and explicate the following astronomic truths:

I. The annual and diurnal periods of the Earth's orbital and rotary motions are unvarying.

2. The Earth is nearly three and one-fourth million miles nearer the sun the first of January than the first of July.

3. The Earth moves with increasing velocity from the point of its greatest to that of its least distance from the sun, and hence thither with increasing velocity.

4. The mean velocity of the Earth's orbital motion is 1,572,820 miles daily; but the maximum thereof is 30,599 miles greater, and its minimum 30,599 miles less than its mean, that is, per day; the daily increment and decrement thereof being an average of 355.0962 miles

5.

The Earth is a little more than one day and one-third longer in moving from its apohelion to its perihelion than from this to that. 6. The Sun is permanently distant from the center of the Earth's orbit nearly one-fifty-sixth of the orbit's radius, or 1,623,762 miles.

7.

The Earth's orbital transposition causes the Sun to appear one and two-thirds days longer north of the terrestrial equator than south of it, annually.

8.

Summer is a little more than two-thirds of a day longer than Spring. Autumn is a little less than two-thirds of a day longer than Winter. Spring is over three and four-fifths, and Summer is over four and one half days longer than Winter. But Summer and Autumn together are less than one day and three-eighths of a day longer than Winter and Spring.

9. These seasonal divisions of the terrestrial year are coincident with corresponding divisions of the Earth's orbit which are analogously unequal.

10.

The seasonal divisions of the terrestrial year, as well as the arcs of the Earth's orbit appropriate to them respectively, are correlated in arithmetical proportion.-The Pericosmic Theory, p. 105.

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AN EARLY BOOK, TITLE AND IMPRINT. old book in excellent preservation, in Latin. "LVPOLDVS DE IVRIBVS DE TRANSLATIONE IMPERII. In Lupoldi Bebenburgij Epitome De iuribus regni & imperij Hexafthycon Sebaftiani Brant."

Imprint "Mathias Schürerius Schletftatinus id ex officina fua imprefforia Argentoraci emifit:die vij. Iulij. Anno M.D.VIII."

SEVEN CLASSES OF DREAMS.

The seven classes of dreams within

the limit of Swapna consciousness are :

1. The chaotic, monstrous, and troubled dreams; arising from physical disorders, indigestion, mental troubles, and similar external

causes.

2. The vague and undefined dreams; in which pictures only half formed impress themselves in rapid succession upon the brain, and hence appear quite obscure and confused on awaking.

3. Warning dreams, which occur to the mind as pictures, in the astral light, of events about to happen; or they may appear as living scenes in which the dreamer either takes an active part, or remains passive, or remains a passive spectator. These are not necessarily connected specially with the life of the dreamer, for they frequently have reference to the lives of others, known to him, but are not themselves susceptible to these subjective impressions.

4. Retrospective dreams, having reference to events which have already taken place in this or preceding incarnations.

5. Dreams resulting from the will of others, good or bad, who desire to impress the sleeper with thoughts, towards future action. The ordinary man must be wide awake and equipped with a very powerful will in order to effect these impressions upon a sleeping person; but the adept need not necessarily be awake in order to produce this result, because his state when away from the body is above the states of either Swapna or Sushupti, as has been said. With regard to the reception of thoughts during sleep which afterward have effect in the waning life of the individual, this is a fact not sufficiently well known to most people ; but it is nevertheless a potent factor in daily life, and more could be said on this point when discussing consciousness.

6. The next kind of dream is the allegorical, which, under more or less beautiful and spiritual imagery, is intended to convey to the mind. some idea of a subjective reality or truth. The impression is that truth clings to, or more properly speaking, is held by the consciousness of the waking person, although the brain may not contain the images under which it was conveyed.

8. Prophetic dreams are the highest class of conscious impressions received in the Swapna state. They are impressed upon our consciousness by the Higher Self, and as such are plain and clear. Many instances of this kind of dream appear in the various Scriptures, and are spoken of as being received by means of a voice, or both. Walter R. Old.

*Homer and Hesiod imputed to the gods all that is blame and shame for men.” -XENOPHANES.

CAGLIOSTRO'S PORTRAITS. Charles Sotheran, in one of his lectures on Cagliostro, delivered before the Liberal Club, in New York, May 28, 1876, exhibited two portraits of the martyr; one of them was by the celebrated Bartolozzi, and was entitled the "The Contemplating Philosopher." Underneath this one are the following lines: "Behold this wondrous man, whose talents sublime, His skill each day doth eager death disarm ; His noble soul, sordid interest doth decline, Humanity alone his breast doth warm."

ECCENTRIC BOOKS. The following are the titles and descriptions of some very strange and singular works, containing much information in all departments of knowledge, yet grotesque and eccentric in composition and style, compilation, etc. :

Written by

"The Treasury of Light; or the Storehouse of Truths Gathered on the Luminous Pasture Fields of History, Mythology, Prophecy, and Heraldry." By John Bull. Edited by Earnest Edwards, Esq. 'I was eyes to the blind' (Job xxix, 15). Pp. 452. London, 1858. Illustrated with frontispieces, maps, charts, cuts; zodiacs, wheels, etc. Book I-Universal History. The History of John Bull, being the Eyes of the Universe set forth in light and dark shades. himself, and carried through the press of events by the pages of his career in high and low life, as a preparatory introduction to the public, before opening his bull's-eyes. Manufactured for the benefit of the best boys in the Universe-Ity and City of Ox-en-ford. Pp. 1-112. Book II-Theology of Mythology. The Sayings and Doings of John Bull, during his Career through Space, in his Twelve Chambers of Imagery, where, at morning, noon, and night, he has, in the capacity of White, Red, and Black, been studiously engaged in manufacturing Bull's-eyes for the best scholars in the Universe-Ity and City of Ox-en-ford. Pp. 113-252.

Book III-Key to Scripture Prophecy. The Revelations and Doc. trines of John Bull, Master of the Bull-ring of the Universe; or The Chariot of the Lord, drawn by the Four Hors-es of AC-ER-UB, the four-heeded lying devil-deity sent to the school of the prophets. For the benefit of the Overseers of Ox en-ford. Pp. 253-452.

"Miranda! A Book of Wonders Hitherto Unheeded. Divided into three Parts, entitled: I, Souls; II, Numbers; III, Stars. The Neo-Christian Religion. Its confirmations of the old and New Doctrines of Christ, from wonders hitherto unheeded, in the words and divisions of the Bible; in the facts and dates of History; and in the positions and motions of the Celestial Bodies." By Filopanti (Emmanuel XLIX). Pp. 398+216 664. London, 1858 '59 '60.

De Morgan's copy has his manuscript in it: "This 23d of February, 1860, being Thursday, Emmanuel XLIX, whom men call Filopanti (see p. 168), left this copy of his Gospel for me at the gate of the College. I believe I am the person specially alluded to at page 355, § 1162. This copy ought to be very valuable at a future time. What would any one give now for a presentation copy of St. John's Gospel, or of the Apocalypse? A. De Morgan.

"Emmanuel; Both the Germ and the Outcome of the Scriptural Alphabets, and the Matallic Image; with an Appendix of Individual

Analogues. A Pentaglot Miniature" (in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish languages). Pp. 360. London, 1885.

Bane and Antidote together; the Unexampled Philology of the Newer Testament and the Unsuspected Geology of Genuine Scripture in Genesis, Job, John, and Hebrews, with a few extemporised Allusions to Universalism and Judas Iscariot, as a letter to the Most Reverend, the President of Canterbury Convocation from an Octogenarian Advocate of Inspiration. Generalities and Individualities. "In utilising for my purposes such adjustments as .5236 and .7854, alike in the orbs of Chaos and in the orbits of Cosmogony, I have treated the fraction as integers."

Elijah counts 46 in the Hebrew alphabet, and Emmanuel in the Greek, 644; this bisected into 322 of Deity, and 322 of Humanity, either reckoning of Emmanuel embracing exactly seven reckonings of Elljah."

DUAL ARITHMETIC (†). (Vol. XIV, p. 84.) In reply to" NELSON we will state :

"When eight positions to the right and eight to the left of the signs †, counting from left to right in both cases, are occupied by ciphers or other digits, the sign † being placed before the eight ascending digits and after the eight descending; yet with respect to range, the dual number is said to be one of eight digits, although sixteen positions, and other positions between the and † may be occupied. If one of the signs is omitted, the positions attached to the other are supposed to be occupied by cipher."

CHANGES IN NAMES. (Vol. I, p. 673.) It was formerly the practice to refer to Vergil as Maro, Ovid as Naso, Cicero as Tully. Even now the "great Julius" is chiefly known by the name of "Cæsar " the Cornelii as Scipios, the Aurelii as Antonius. The changes are arbitrary.

ALLITERATION.

A. WILDER.

Philip Quarles, in his "Divine Emblems," con

tains many specimens of alliteration. Here is one :

;

"We sack, we ransack, to the utmost sands

Of native kingdoms, and of foreign lands;

We travel sea and soil; we pry, we prowl,

We progress, and we prog from pole to pole."

Phineas Fletcher, in his poem, "The Purple Island," first canto,

stanza seven, has this one:

"New light, new love, new love new life hath bred,

A life that lives by love, and loves by light."