Amusing note from Tullidge, Triumphs of the Bible: For the omission of some others, such as the massacre of the innocents and the supernatural darkness at the crucifixion, a sufficient reply is furnished in the following extract from the recently published diary of Varnhagen von Ense: “Humboldt confirms the opinion I have more than once expressed, that too much must not be inferred from the silence of authors. He adduces three important and perfectly undeniable facts, as to which one finds no evidence in places where one would naturally, above all others, expect to find it. In the records of Barcelona there is not a trace of the triumphal entry made by Columbus; in Marco Polo, no mention of the great wall of China; and in the archives of Portugal, nothing about the voyage of Amerigo Vespucci in the service of that crown.”—History of the Geography of the New World, part iv, p. 160, et sey.