Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-03-22
New PabIIeatiOns

The April number of the Popular Science
Monthly has been received. Itis work of
rare value, and may be proftably read by
all educated persons. Our present most
successful industries, arts and civilization,
co1ld have no existence without the pa
rental aid Of science. Its value as a moral,
intellectual and physical force is inestims-
BILE. The first article in the April number
is from the pen of Prof. Henry, Secretary of
the Smithsonian Institution on the Import
ance of tho Cultivation of Science; 10 which
he says: sIg may be shown by simple
calculation that about fifteen tons of an
thracite coal exert an energy equal to that
of an able bodied slave, working ten hours
a day for thirty years of bis active life.n
Those who remember the value of slave
labor in the South will see from the above
estimate of the productive power of coal,
as compared with such labor, the latent
wealth which this State possesses in its coal
mines. Slaves were, unavoidably, large
consumers of food and raiment. Coal con-
sumes nothing but air 10 burning, aud water
in making steam. while performing in Eng
land the labor of one hundred million men.
Science has so improved, and so far adj
ysnced machines for picking carding, spin
Mug AUQ WodNtIlS Clo6ninS5 lAUiIC, IueSJ az.
cording to Prot. Henry''an engine off one man
power is capable of doing three thousand
times the work of an ordinary weaver" That
practical knowledge which enables one per-
son to do the wo, of 5000 other persons,
labor:ng in primitive way, is the knowl-
edge that common people ought 70 cult
vate. No other crop can pay farmer or
mechanic half so well. Mind directs, wisely
or unwisely, all productive industry, wheth-
er in the field or workshop. Science seeks
to enlghten this directing intelligence in
the highest degree. The Popular Science
Monthly is published by d. Appleton 81
Co, New York, one of the Oldest and larg
est publishing houses in the United States,
and has all needful capital, Lalent and
business tact, to make journal distinguish
ed alike for its usefulness, bearing and sue
cess. All educators aud professional men
who desire to keep up with the advance Of
human thought and actiJ should read the
MONTHLY. Price five dollars year. d.
Appleton & Co., New York, publishers.
Ths April number of Lippincott'S Mag
dzine opens with profusely illustrated de-
scription of Wilmington, Della ware, and its
varied industries. The second article,
which is also handsomely illustrated, car
ries us to the remote shores OF Africa, and
exhibits the picturesque costume and ma u
ners of the children of the desert. Much
information is given about the present con-
| dition of Algiels. A brilliant, lively serial
| story by Mrs. Rebecca Harding Davis is
begun in this number. ''Gray Friars," the
old English school made famous by Thack-
eray, is infinitely described il its present
discipline and old associations. The most
attractive contributor to LippincOtt'S is the
new English novelist, William Black, who,
having completed bis charming story, ''The
Adventures ola PbBtoD," has new serial
in course of publication in this magazine,
entitled ga Princess of Thule" The next
article, "Med ical Expert Evidence" is an
argument in the case of Mrs. Wharton,
lately tried at Annapolis, Maryland. The
writer of this paper is DR., Il, Q. Wood, Jr.,
who was witness in the case. He says
that the object of his paper is to criticise the
mode of trial Of s2ch cases, and "to show
that the present evils do not grow out of
the imperfection OF medical jurisprudence,
but out of the methods of our criminal pro-
cedures.n Among the lighter articles is
sprightly, natural, well told story by Mar
garet Vandegrift; some lively reflections in
a strain of good humored b2dinage on the
present condition of Virginia, by Richard
| B. Alder; curious account of the mir4cu
lous appearance of the Virgin Mary, alleged
to have recently occurred in France. In
poetry, the best is from Howard Glyndon,
| which is, we believe, lady's "nom de
plume" The monthly gossip is varied and
lively. ]. B. LippincOtt q Co., Philadel-
| phia, Publishers.
The numbers of LitteLrS Lining Age for
| the weeks ending March and Is have
the following interesting CONTENTS: The
Works of Thackeray, Edinburgh ReUieaC;
Paganini (second paper), Good Words;
The Sonnet, Quarterly ReUieac; The Mar
rage of the Emperor Of China, COrrahiH
MAGAZINE; Force in Literature, Saturday
Revieeo: Madame de SeVigne, Quarterly
ReUieaC: Sea AOVels,-Cap!Ain Marryatt,
| COrnhiU Magazine; Passage ia the Life Of
a Bachelor, MacmiLLdn'S Magazine; Witten-
berg and Cologne, Frdzer'S Magazine;
| The approaching Transit Of Venus, Spec
tdtor: with iDsballments of "His Little Sc
| rene Highness," translated from the Plat
| Deutsc6 of Fritz Reuter-, and of ga Slip in
the Fens,n besides poetry and miscellany.
| the first number of January began a new
volume and new series, with entirely new
serials, affording an unusually excellent OPP
portunity for the beginning of new sub
scriptions, The subscription price OF this
| "a page weekly magazine is So year, or
| for $40 any one Of the American 81 maga-
zines is sent with The Living Age for a
year. Littell IL Gay, Boston, Publishers.