New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-03-21
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
LpRm MAGAZINES.


The chronological Journal has itsusual variety
.,r,hy suggestions aud popular illustrations, presenting
sany aspects OF the subject Of physical education in
striking light with papers Of more elaborate
character san II often INDUCES in, though not inter-
ierng with the habtual yelness Of its physiosnomy
Hvoieae is the title of new journal OF
sanitary science published every fortnight by d. r. Put
nams Sons We received the third number OF the
esJiodoa which states that il has already reaeheo an
exceptionally large circulation for the time has been
nefcre the public II purposes give regular summary
n the details of sanitary progress with original com
ents and 10 maintain alert censorship OF articles OF
food aud domestic economy, especially those which ea
10 be an improvement the primitive ways OF Au'ui
and Eve. Not aiming 20 be Journal OF meulehe, ''
Of health il viii set forth the most approved metnous
Ar The prevention Of disease and the attainment OF long
h5e
One of the best things in the new NUMBER
nj Isoiuoo ia the graphic picture OF Wilmington ana
Y,a Indpstries with which opens. That quaint ana
padword Delaware town is the precise spot on 'uo
American map where the South begins anu INC Noi'n
xpds For itself Wilmington is perfect crystal OF
Yankee grit but ont and fixed In country "nch
An the highest degree represents the soit eontehteu
aasv incoherent Bourbon temper" There is no
cher instance between Detroit and DiXie OF such
xharp close contrast. =" man might step OUT
70 the city limit, and staud with one ieS
IN fun Yankeeland. thrilling with enterprise
In the 'patriarchal tines" Elsewhere along the
saced line Of Mason and Dixon the sections die away
INTO each other here they stare into each DINERS faces
wilmington cuts odd figure in Charles Reades recent
novel The Wandering Heir" This is Que TO a Tar
stranger literary partnership than that which existed
between Dumas and Maquet who helped out the French
novelist in his splendid ctions. Rcade selects Tor his
fellow aborer the most unlikely person in the world
This is Benjamin Ferris, grave, tranquil
and intensely respectable Quaker writer OF COLO
nial histories in distant pastoral retreat py
The Delaware The words of this drabeoated
Wilmington antiqnary form effective part OF Reades
exciting romance. His words adopted by Reade de-
scribe the terrestrial Paradise now known as wilmington
u golden and gorgeous terms. So long as Reade Keeps
MP Isis partnership with Ferris be is sound and truthful
But the he lets 20 his hold on the sleeve OF ms
Quaker eoat. he absurd calling the Delaware loI
instance in that locality ebay" and speaking OF
piekypcar hedge farm only sixty miles rom Phi,
adelphIa. Wilmington is famous for It's hne ola
mills which still in successful operation
For long time il did an immense bnsl-
ness in sipbuiidng nyaling ON the Delaware
the naval princes on the Clyde II sits on the bosom
Of the water serene and fearless under the temporary
depresson OF the trade in America. The Wilmington
workmen do not strike Living in good houses OF their
swn they have no taste for revolutions which would
convert them into wandering Ishmaetes. In some OF
thr largest establishments whites and negroes labor SIDE
nv side al the same task without showing their teeth,
except IN smiles. The paper is admirably illustrated
O.h,r articles on The Roumi in Kabyia, Ihacke-
rays Gray Frars" The Sweet Waters" " Medical Elk
pert Evidence" Among the poecal contributions Is
quaint Chinese Story" by c. p. Cranch, giving new
version Of the old fable of " The Chameleon"
Scribner contains an unusual proportion
Of substantial fare providing less for the amusement
than the instruction Of the reader. IL opens with
AN Hour Among the Greeuback showing very clearly
how money that description is manufactured but not
how II is made The process of putting in circulation
afofp n
readable paper by Miss f. d. Proctor treats Of Mos
COW and Southern Russia describing the curious traits
Of the population with spirit and intelligence, ana Win
aeep sympathy in the fortunes Of nation of such sub
lime possibilities" The editors monthly discourse on the
Topcs OF the Time" has Opportune suggestions on
the Importance of Clean Hands," especially among
those who are conspicuous by public Office and position
From The fact great regulations lie scattered up
aud down the land In ruins. he reads lesson htte
trite perhaps its cOuuses but pertinent in It's app
cation in the long run nothing pays 50 well IN
wealth and power and safety and comfort as virtue,
uropounding a Wholesome doctrine, though with mer-
tenary motive. The discourse discusses the char
acier Of Lord Lytton, whom it sets down somewhat
hastily destitute Of that essential visions called heart
According 10 the testimony Of the editors OF
"BlaekSOod," who had been on terms Of closest
intimacy with Bulwer for many years, 1t is
Too strong an assertion TO declare that no man
ever accused or suspected him Of possessing anything
that conld bear so precious name" The charges OF his
wife that he bad man can be regarded only as the
rawlings Of termagant the verge Of insanity. That
his literary productions merely beautiful shams
An beautiful settings" "maryelous jewnry Of thought
and fancy" but with no blood in his rubes," no
heaven in his sapphires," s matter of opinion,
hut throws no light his personal character The
fact that he was generally admired, petted,
eOurted," would to contradict the final
summing up Of his critical Rhadamanthus who
pronounees, in rather questionable rhetoric, that
while be lived TO his autumn, his fruit brought to pre-
mature beauty by it bred rOts where 1t fell
and his leaves brilliant with many dyes, fall at the
touch OF the FROST to be trOdden under foot swept
AWAY by the wind" finer, and 1t would seem, juster
estimate Bulwer is presented in admirable paper
In another department Of the Magazine by different
Aand IL is there said that CHS larger experience and
Ais rpeDed genius chastsed by criticism and stimulated
Ry the fame OF rivals, produced works OF Kind and
degree Of excellence that his early promise gave no
seasOn 70 hope for" The final verdict OF the writer
is gwen IN far more discriminating terms than the
siashing denuncistOns OF the editor. Friends and
enemies agreed last in thisthat whatever bemishes
aisncured his earlier performances, his morality grew
Farer of life just his purposes higher
and his execution finer his genius purged and chast
rDed tsef IN the latest years" Thswe apprehend isa
sruer judgment than that which we have before COM
znented and expressed in much better taste. Other
papers in the rubric entitled Culture and Progress"
excellent in tone. and mastery in execution, and
win amply reward the attention Of intelligent readers.
The first article in the Catholic World
Discusses the question OF Public Charities" from
Roman Catholic point of view presenting the subject
IN light 10 attract the attention both OF statesmen and
rbnanthropiss. The maintains that the work OF
education and reform s not function Of the State, and
cannot be assumed without usupng the sacred respon
abilities Of the sacerdotal Office The State only
sbsh ard support places Of restraint and punishment
for the protection the public for the safety of the iu
iyduals themselves and for purposes OF philanthropy