the mountains of Labrador and in the Pyrenees, the Scotch mountains, and our own White Mountains. =The Academy della Crusca.=--"For three hundred years," says a correspondent of the London Athenæum, "the learned body, the Academy of la Crusca (the bran), Florence, has been scrupulously sifting the Italian tongue and producing successive editions of its monumental dictionary. Its present seat is in the monastery of St. Mark--Savonarola's cloister--where it occupies the hall behind the great library. When an associate is promoted to full membership, his official reception is still accompanied by the traditional rite. First, he is solemnly conducted to the Cruscan museum, and left to solitary meditation among shovel-backed chairs surmounted by the symbolical sieve and bookcases ingeniously fashioned in the likeness of corn sacks. The walls are covered with the names, crests, and mottoes of former members, who in past times usually assumed fantastic titles descriptive of the academy's labors." Some of these printed inscriptions and comical devices are more or less quaint. Thus, Dr. Giulio Maxi in 1590 took the name of _Il Fiorito_, or the flowery one, with the device of a basket of wheat in bloom and the motto from Petrarch (translation): "I enjoy the present and hope for better." In 1641 the Senator Vieri appeared as _Le Svanito_, the evaporated, with an uncorked wine flask, the stopper beside it, and the motto: "Oh, how I long for the medicine!" In 1660 the Marquis Malaskini adopted the title of _Il Preservato_, the preserved, the device of olives packed in straw, and the motto from Petrarch: "Keep the prize green." In 1764, the Abbot Giuseppe Pelli, surnamed _Il Megliorato_, the improved, took the device of a newly invented sieve for the better sifting of grain, with the Petrarchian motto: "Follow the few, and not the throng." In 1770, Signor Domenico Manni assumed the title of _Il Sofferente_, the sufferer, with a straw chair as his device, and a motto from Dante: "The master said that lying in a feather bed One would not come to fame--nor under the plowshare." In due time the new member is escorted to the hall where the academy is assembled, and the chief consul, head of the academy, greets him with a speech, to which he has to make a fitting reply. Historical Italian families are numerously represented on the academy's rolls, and among the foreign members are the names of William Roscoe and Mr. Gladstone.