New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-21
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
DIN AND NEW.

launching of n new periodical and probably Will not
Ssappoint the hatterng expectations based upon the
reports of those who in the secret of its making
The most obvious criticism upon II IS that many vi
the articles are too fragmentary-lke the DIST part
If Mr. Hae's serial story, "Ten Times One IS Ien,"
which hardly gets beyond the name, Miss Hanhah Il. |
Lnnts moral not to say gOody, tale " The SURPRISE
and Mrs Julia Ward Howes two-page article on |
'The Vest Mrs HOwes purpose was to contrast |
in two papers the West as it was ana as IL Is; an
experienced magazine editor instead OF making TWO
bites of cherry would have given both sides Oh the
p,cture together This scrappness is apparently the
result of an effort to crowd into the magazine /
greater variety than 1t will properly hold BreVlty
boweyer is q good thing and the just medium De-
tween too much and too little will be learned as the
months roll on In nearly every other respect Oid
and Noo is excellent, and its best feature. the
Record of Progress is'amOst unique In magazine
literature In tins department. which fills thirty !
four pages il is the purpose of the editor to give
monthly survey of the best work of the age IN as
eovery invention, moral and social REFORM educa- !
ton public health, religion, and politics; calling (
upon the most thoroughly competent men and women |
e. give al account of what has been done IN the !
matters wherein they respectively Interested /
Thus IN the present number woman-teacher writes
al admirable description of the Christian Club-
House. established by the Providence Union for
heyel furnishes a column and half about the liar
ward University Lectures interesting information
~ rven about the progress of the Cornell Universe
ty the state of Religion in England is the subject
of other remarks; and we learn something abOut ed
acaon in Italy and Virginia OF the longer articles
attention will be directed principally to 1.-The Gcu-
menicai Council which is temperate explanation
by the Rev. j. b. Torricell, expriest and preacher
of particulars respecting the Roman gathering that
,,,,lor TODD ~ Aau FIN
shaken" which is a very readable earthquake art'-
clc hy w. T. Brigham: and DR.. Walkers account OF
what is doing at Harvard in tho direction OF
University Reform In this last paper will
be found the suggestions of the Examining
Committee of the y Overseers, who recon-
mend that a higher standard of scholarship
be required az mariculatiOn; that certain improve
ments be made in the system of marking; that the
elective plan of studies be literally extended and
that for the sake both of students and teachers,
large reduction be made of the hours in recitation
rooms. Theology is represented by Robert COllyer
who contributes brilliant essay on Eternity in
Time" G. Carroll Everett, who writes on God the
Father and J. Freeman Clarke, who. in q discus
sion of The Perfection of Jesus" finds middle
ground between the position of the Naturalists who
regard Christas man like other men perfect neither
morally nor intellectually and the Supernaturalists
RhO hold him to have been snless, infallible,
worker of miracles, and therefore superhuman
But why may not suppose" asks Mr.. Clarke
THAT mans nature is higher than either party be
hevesi What ifman made to be all Jesus was
what if human nature is not necessarily sinful, but
otherwise; what if sin and unnatural, not
natural then il may follow that Jesus did all that
he is claimed TO have done in the Gospels that he is
all that he is described to have BEEN and yet, in
stead of being at all unnatural isTa truer and
more perfectly natural man than any other has
BEEN Miracles he believes TO be perfectly in
harmony with mysterious natural laws which we do
not yet understand, but shall learn in due time and
rs for the belief in demOnacal possession which is
cited as proof that Jesus liable TO error he says
Il have myself known. personally or by credible
testimony of at least half dozen instances of per-
sons who after having allowed themselves TO be-
come spiritual mediums, seem at last TO have been
taken possession of by low and unclean order of
spirits. And the best way of rescuing them when
they were too far gone to help themselves, was to
have some other person possessing greater spirit
nal force do what Jesus did, namely, order
the spirit TO 90 Grdy believe that in certain places
and periods the nervous condition of men is such
that the lower order of ghosts may get control over
them and that when Jesus came it Just such
time and place as this" There several good misce
laneOus articles. DR.. Bellows tells what has been
done toward " The National Lincoln Monument"
and writes a chapter about Egypt" DIr. Hale tells
historical story of The Two Princes children,
he says but it will suit the elders just as well !;
Mr.. w. II. Dali describes briefly his " First
Day on the Yukon;' Joseph Lowering sketches
the careef6i Michael Faraday = and there is a dis
cussion of plans for The Boston Park In poetry
the magazine is weak. There Is only one piece, an
installation Hymn by Mrs. II. b. Stowe, a part Of
which is already familiar through the pages of hymn
books. il is hardly worth reproducing in its present
complete shape. Under the head of L" The EXAM
Dcr" are given book reviews and notices, distn-
guished by the care and scholarship which gave SO
excellent reputation to the critical department of
The Christian Examiner The appearance of the new
magazine is quiet decOrous and attractive. 1t CON
tans III pages, printed in good large type, with
double columns and resembling in general makeup
Tie Catholic Uorid
The Hernd Of Health begins with its Janu-
AIRY number serial story by Mrs. Elizabeth Cakes Smith,
called 1.-The Two Wiyes."
MacmiUan's Magazine for December, and the
9Th number Of Nature Dec p just received at the
agency Of Messrs. Macmillan Co. ia this city.
The new Presbyterian magazine, Or Monthly,
which starts Cincinnati with the January number, is
edited by a committee Of three clerymen, who will
doubtless be enough make pous and orthodox but
rather too many efficiency in the other details Of
ageueut The first number promises WELL however, and
- sufficiently light and varied in character to be welcome
in the family. A chidrens department and a musical
department are among its prominent features. Tho
opening article for January is the commencement Of
serial story entitled 1.-The Theban Legion" by Prof W.
H. Blackburn.
l., al