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ago, begins now story, entitled Honest John

ago, begins now story, entitled Honest John
. Among tho single atorios Abort Webstcr's
Hiss Ennioo'a Glove" hns great tnorit. Thoao
who frequent tlo magazines do not ofton gotta
= Nhnoia parkn,an gives another Of hia btudlos
Of jesuit history In oary American nnnnta, In
EARLY Canadian Miraclea and N1artyra," In
which ho goes aa far bnok as tic aulpitiRn mira
cured her paralyzod arm by touching Tie leatlon
cashot In which reatod tho romaius Of Olier, tho
founder OF 81. su1pioo.
Jnnen Parton portrays Tho ProsidontlAl oloo-
and in which, A1r. Parton aays, the Cnmpaign-
Linr who has since assumed 10 ovorHhadowing o
rolc IN our political contests, first tried hlB un
practicod talenta. >
In "An Old Englieh Home" Mrs. Lynn Lin
most beautiful hS homes In England, ,-Lowor
Eatington Park. For u thousand yoarB 1t has
heon In tho posAoBaton Of ono family, tho 9hir-
10y, aneiontly tho 6asunalo family; and ut Is
allol in Amerlca, because wo havo no ancestral
homoa iN3 belonging for many generations TO- .
leisure class, mo old "plaaaauncoa which tho
love OF beauty and tho spirit Of consorvanoo
Of yeer1. sot IL tho midst of venorable trees~
notably somo old hnwthorns-that aro as
baored as tho family plate and piotnros and tho
removal Of which, 20 long as they will stand up
right, nothing but tho soyerost mood would juHti-
fy,-vlth many stretches Of that soft, rich grass
which Is made only by constant yearB Of close
mowing,-the house looks out on to 4 sceno Of
peace nud 1ovolinoas and trimmed luxurlanco,
tla the liko OF which no country save England can
:. Tho poetry OF tho number is M good as Ellen
Terry, g. P. Lathrop, Celin Thaxter, and Whit
tfor eau mako 1t; and readcra Of the atlantic
know how good that ia.
Tho Popular Science Monthly for July.
John Stuart Mill holds tho place OF honor In
tho Popular 6ctc11co Monthly Tor July. ThoroiB
very flne portrait Of him, and with It are glyon
in full, or sHghtly abridged, tho most valuable
of the momorial artiolea published by tho LON
don Examiner. His education und marriage are
written Of by Il. 4. Fox Bourne: ". r. Thorn
ton doscribeB hin career In tho India House
Herbert Spencer leavoa his intellectual achIoyo-
monts, which aro 80 widely admitted and prais-
cd, to portray aomo Of those remarkable mani
foBtationa OF. his high moral qualities which, In
tloir nature, could DO kuown only to those whoso
personal relations with him called thom forth.
His botanical atudlea nre akotchod BY Henry
Trimon hia place IS critic by ". Mimic his
work in philosophy by J. q. Levy; his work in
political economy by Prof. j. 4. Cairnes, who
aays that, though Mill waa not tho first to treat
to enforce tho lesson, that, just because It ia q
science, it6 conclusions carry with thorn no
obligatory force with reference to human con-
duct. :" In tue writing Of the eoonomiata who
aasumed that to provo TINT corta1n ens eoarao y
conduct tenda to tho most rapid increase Of
wealth Huiicos to entail upon all who ncoopt tho
argument the obligation of adopting tho course
pudiatod this inference, and, while accepting
tho theorotio conclusion, held himBolf por-
fectly free to adopt in practice whatever
course DO preferred. It was not for political
economy or for any scieuco to say wllnt arc the
nss Sa Gst IT, rpy a o Of esg bSeg e eo1g Rg an pa
shows US tho means by which tho ends may bo
attained but it Ia for each individual man to
decide how fur the end Ii desirable ut tho cost Of
which its attainment involves. In q word, tho
mastorH. This was q lesson which hIill was tho
frat to enforce, and by enforcing which 4o may
DO eaid to have omancipated economists from tho
thraldom Of thcir own teaching. 1tiH in no slight
degroo, through the constant recognition Of it's
truth, that he haa boen enabled to divost Of ro-
pulsivoneaa evon tho most abstract speculatious,
and to impart glow Of human interest to all
that ho has touched" Prof. Fawcott estimates
his influence at tho Uniyoraities and ", d,
Hunter, his position as philosopher.
A worry noticeable article ia "Tho Physiology
OF Deatl, " translated from tho Fronch Of Fer
maud Papillon by 4. Il. Marlborough, to whom
American roaders are indebted for so many op-
portnno and hnely-dnished trauslationa. M.
Papillon groups together tho rosulta Of tho in
voBtigations Of Diclat aud his SUCCESSORS In
showing tho order In which tho various func-
tiona Of the body yield ther vitality at tho call
Of tue destroyer, and diacloses in the ordor and
operation tho actiyitios which tloso researches
hnvo shown to bo at work In tho corpso.
Those who haya followed tho relentless en-
croachmontH which psychologists Of tho latest
school are making on tho domain Of tho soul aud
i $+1AA- f. n
pcuter'a '.Horoditary Transmission OF Acquired
psyoical Habits" DR.. Carpenter holds that
moutal activity Of even tho most elementary kind
can bo shown to 10 dependent upon tho physical
changes kept up by tho circulation Of oxygennted
blood through the brain, and that just al direct
ly aud Immediately. as tho dependence Of tho
electric activity Of galyauio battory upon tic
analogous changes taking place between its mot
alB and it's exciting liquids. In other wordB,
thought is tho product Of chemical change.
cling to tho godlke ideal Of human intelligence,
it IL shown that certain phases Of mental
disease. like the loas Of power to remember
dates and names, arc due to aome defectiyo in
Next to tho political bias, Herbert Spencer puts
tho theological bins as disturbor OF scientific
habits of sociological thought and research. This
poryorting bias consists not alone Of the scotia
lian prott.dicos and antipathies, Ike those Which
rendor bigotod Roman Catholics and bigoted
Troto8tants unable TO form temperate or lust
Judgments in each others work III sooiety, past
or present, but AZ well Of tho irrational skopti-
ciHm and iconoclasm which is content to destroy
and overturn without rebuilding aud cauecs suoh
unsconti1o neutrality-suspicious. ab tho denial
40 ofteu heard that a religious system is nor
NAL and essential factor in every loalthy ao-
cioty.
In Venus on tho Sun'a Face" r. A. Proctor
gives tho history Of tho former transits Of VenuH
across tho SUMS face. Tho first occasion on
which tho planet Of Love was seen in that fiery
embrace was Dec. t. 1899 bnt it waB not until
178o, when Capt. Cook made his famous oxpodi-
tion in tho Endoavor, that my satisfactory OBJ
aervations wore nado. It waa watched in thas
year from seventy four ditferont stations, and on
tho results ti1on obtained Ia based Decentralization
still uBod in our astronomical textbooks Of tho
dstanco of tho sun from the oarth.
The other articles Of tho number arc: II How
tho Sea-Depths Arc Explored" Hl'ustratod) !;
Naturo aud Origin OF tho Drifr-Deposita oi
tho Northwost" Ill, by N. II. Winclaell :" Do
meatio Economy Of Fuel III, by Giant. Doug
las Gallon; 'sTho Longevity Of Treos," by