New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-18
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
MAGAZINES

Edvsapi A
... y s,.h "a a remarkable and valuable testi'
.snnv rom an ultra pro-slavery man. OF the excenen'
..n,,s NJ emancipation and the fair prospects VI 'oo
sonth under the rule of freedom. MT foiN'u n"'
s.ya,ea extensively through the reconstructed States
- FRANKLY expresses surprise at discover ing tna'
the freedman shows capacity for education lh mas
.n,ssed none moro than his former mastors thai ne
has gwen proofs Of good citizenship WHICH
constantly increasing; that his development since e
sipstiop IL a standing surprise TO cahoa o"'ei''"
.meng the Southern whites themselves; that hs eopu
ton since then has been. the whole, that oil progress
ana IN the face OF difficulties that would soon nave
aud brosen down that progress had IL been iacuouS
d,shopest; and that, far from Deing s'''o'S p'
harlan or a hopeless retTograde. the iOrinerD oV'P
black man promises 10 become True i""o" " ~,
highest civilization, a new object OF h'c'oSs w ~
world and an exemplary citizen oil me south $50"
are honest words aud do credit 10 MI iohdio 'o'H
.,nee,,v and intelligence. Grace Greenwood contrib
.tes under tho title OF 1.-TWO oid heauS'
f. n,easapt sketch OF certain ceeDntes WYNN
she met In Rome In Isj9,-prnee CoTSoi' hc"
and eccentric, witty aud wicked, ana most unooF
.c,onably old" and the Chevaer kestner son oil the
Charlotte and Albert OF GOethes Werthcr Is IL her
mistake or Dumas that novelist, as she quotes him.
makes Prince Corsn the granddaughter OF Pope LORENZO
XIII There never any Pope Lorenzo az III
Clement XII. was COrsini. Mrs. Il. H. DAVIS mas q
yell-wrtten story about Leonard Heaths Fortune
and NJ F. stockton another called Luck IN Shadow"
About Hogs" by Dom Piat;. a sketch OF keai
Hero" namely Joel Robinson the pilot who carried the
Maid Of the Mist through the rapids from Niagara 10
Lewiston and the Monthly Gossip" we IND nothing
else of special interest The poetry OF the month Is
poor in nearly all the magazines
Mr.. Louis j. Jennings writes for The GdldFg
40 article on Mr. Raymond and Journalism which IS
fairly done. but adds little to our previous knowledge
The author OF Ton Years Rome" describes the PrOpa-
cf hor~
baldi's novel Mr. Mccarthy, whose gallery OF living
celebrities has for months one OF the most at
tractiye features OF Tae GALAXY. draws repulsiVe
picture OF Empress Eugonie, whom he believes 70
have done great harm to France. both socially ana
politically by her .extravagsnce and her bgotIy. Mr..
Richard Grant White sums up The Case of Hamlet the
Younger" attempting convey his theory OF Hamefs
character by reellng with application and explanation
the story Shakespeare represents It. IL IS good piece
of work. will help the reader 10 appreciate cIlt'
esm Of Feehter which appears anonymously IN the MIS-
cellany department. An article on Ihe Growth OF
New-YorL" has for It's moral the Arcade Railroad The
Letters from Havana" are continued fourth OF Ar'
Irolope's Editors Tales Il begun; and Mr. James
L Mckay contributes sngularly repnsiye story called
Pine Plank" In the "NeDul@,' an American Lady
makes spirited defense OF her eountrygomen against
o medical lecturer and malgn Englisbman who two
months ago said that American women were
scraggy" We glad to have this important question
taken up; for While is not, ~ least ought not 70 be-
matter Of opinion OF gaess work, IL is one OF
which the facts cannot essyIbe reached by observation
The most offensive part of the remarks OF the 1.-TWO
trmpery doctors" TO have been that handsome
leg IS a rary--ve had almost said impossibilty-
au,ong American women" This, the writer In The
GALAXY exclams, is bsseless it IS unbearabe."
And goes that though she Is ignorant OF the
ballet and professional dancers, has passionate
sense OF beauty OF FORM and has taken advantage Of
abundant opportunities afforded py gymnastlc classes
aud singing schools study the development OF the lower
limbs Of her She mas ut least thousand ladies
pretty dress for Do LeSis's physical eIer-
cises which leaves the lower leg more than half I'M
daped Now OF these thousand pairs OF natural egs she
sOlemnly declares that not more than fifty 4
eager that would have been kinder to hide then and
more than twenty destitute OF good points
that etheticsyl they ought TO have been anDhlated
These statistics highly interesting, and the public
sure VIII read them with sense OF national PRIDE
Old and New is rather less provoking than
usual but still is queer medley Of good and bad The
editorial wit and wisdom which other periodicals throw
"mlsceilany" and gossip" columns here set
forth the prefsces the different departments, and
often the readable Of the contents Of the
tne. The literary Examiner" is always good, and the
Record Of Progress" Is certain 70 contain at least
several interesting pages Much Of this latter
department In tbs April number IS devoted
the condition Of s,e English working classes, whose
recently defeated candidate for Southwark MI George
Odger the editor perssenty calls AdSer. We ind also
the Record" interesting account OF the Boston
Flower Charity, paper by Professor Lesley on the
HammaIan Fossils OF North America and very fat
letter from NewYork. The beet of the articles in the
body of the magazine Miss LncTeta T. Bale's story,
"Felcie Mordaunts World" criticism by Mr. George
y. Woods on "The New TTagedisn" an account by o.
BOwes. jr. Of the Seal Fishery in Alaska :" causo
and sensible article On Funeral Eoies;" story by
Mrs A. d. Perkins, entitled "Beatrees Mirror :" out.
line of what Art Museums in America" ought 10 he;
nd nv Dr ind -
from which we quote tho following remarkable passage;
An original aud characteristic for the pri
yate conscience and the individual SOUL mas produced in
America that vast harvest OF sects which threatens TO
end in making every man sect by himself IL mas fos
tered education by the common school that every single
child may acquire the means OF SHOWING ana re- !
Peelng ms own mght ar e1'1 i,a, Si sep
,eiigeDcc. IL has encouraged every mah 10 nNe oy
light and 70 inter his own munitions IL has pro
and philosophers who have boldly balanced
their private convictions against the oldest faiths and the
largest testimony o! experience. II has created love OF
,,erseded 70 a great extont life in community and
newspapers reviews books and speeuatons have taken
gossip. Whatever Life sun exists in the rural por
deserted from the!r wornoat soil.-wlieh finds
~ stone and sse and the pefsstont Cropping Of
granite which ralus and winds cannot disnlegrate or
faIy door toll or sober stOrekeepng, mOnoonous
factory drndglns, interehaneed with unsocial, un
sbe the nogiboTs, except under ngid coDd
lions or on state occasions Five dwndlipg churches
sge where ono might enjoy animated and
selfIesPeetin morally aspiring. thoughtful, in
sfructed; but lonely sad, discOnlented, In revolt
ready radical changes, dcnbting what 1t wishes TO
believe. craving the stimulus OF the most radical
and satiTcal poetry ana free religion. The most cult
waited and GIFTED men are apt to be ihe least
worship, the least social. the least cheerful
The women, with brains that toppe above