The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-03-12
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BRAINARD's MUSICAL oRL - The
March number of this favorite Musical
Monthly is out, and as usual, filed With
choice new music and interesting musical
reading.
The Musical World fully sustains its
reputation as being the best, as it is one of
the oldest, musical monthlies in the coun-
try. 1t gives at least three times the
amount of original reading matter to be
found in any, other journal of the kind,
while it is still furnished at the low price
of one dollar per annum. Specimen cop
les sent on application. Address, S. Brain
ards Sons Publishers, Cleveland Ohio.
TIE ILLUSTRATED ANNUAL OF PHREN-
oLoGY AND PHYsIoGNoMY for 1874, con-
tains eighty large octave pages, with more
than fifty ~engravings, representing Heads
Faces, Mouths, Noses, good or bad, with
"Signs of Character )" also Ny School
mates, and What became of them a good
Memory 1ke LEAK, or q hole in the
Pocket through bad Habits :" and How
to save Money One Thousand Boys
Wanted Bad Breath, its Cause and Cure;
A Fascinating Face Whatthe Savans are
doing for Mental Science, etc. The best
Annual ever issued. Agents wanted.
Newsmen have it. Sent prepaid, by s..
R. WELLS, Publisher, $50 Broadway N.
York. We have not been IN receipt of
the chronological journal this year. 1t is
one of the Indispensable with as
The January number of the British
Quarterly ReViel0(Leonard Scott Publish
ing Co., New YeIk) opens with an article
on The Ballad its Nature and Literary
Afinlties." 1t begins by giving the orig
,.oI ~aanfp0 of the WOrj ia d.nca-aanu -
and showing that the name was subse-
quently applied to poems of very diverse
character. After describing the main
features of the genuine ballad, it gives
many interesting illustrations of the light
which poems of this class throw, not only
on the manner and customs, but also on
the beliefs and feelings of people of old.
Modern Scientific Inquiry and Relig-
ious Thought" shows that science and re-
ligion can, and often do, go hand in hand
deep researches IN geology, theories of
creation, e%volHtion, etc., in no wise inter
fering with a belief in God, but rather
strengthening our faith in the presence of
an intelligent Creator.
1t is followed by an essay on "Inductive
Theology which takes the ground that
man Is so constituted that ''he must theo-
rize; he must trace effects to their cause,
and argue from the cause to the effects it
will infallibly produce" and goes on to
say "There are facts enough at our COM
mand, both in the Universe and in the
Bible, and We shall not alter the facts by
changing the point from which We view
them we shall not be unfaithful to the
truth by e~ndeavoring so to conceive it as
to make it tell on our generation. The
main purpose of the article is to show the
application of the scientific method of in
quiry to a few of the fundamental truths
Of religion.
mind and the Science of Energy" is a
dissertation on the connection between phys
ical and physchical phenomena, which real
" seems to be q consideration Of the ques-
ton, What is Thought 2 After looking at
| the subject from all aides, and quoting Tyn-
dial, Huxley, Buehner, and Herbert Spen-
Ger. the writer is compelled to admit that
no positive conclusion has yet been arriV-
ed at.
In Revision of the Text of the New
Testament, After briefly presenting the
reasons for a REVISION of the text, the
reviewer considers, In some detail, the
principles of the two schools of criticism
represented by DIR. Tregells and DR.. Scri-
vener. We find here many interesting de-
tails relating to the various readings of
many ancient manuscripts, together with
observations upon the tests by which their
genuineness may be tried.
The Autobiography of John Stuart
Mill" does not place before Us a very
pleasing picture. The poor child, three
years old, studying Greek, Is certainly a
pitiable object. He must have possessed
wonderful mental and physical strength,
for the precocious brain does not seem to
have worn out the body, as 30 often hap
pens IN such cases, and it certainly pre-
serves its viger to the very last. The i'm
preston given is that his life was incom-
plete-that something was lacking which
the reader misses-and one can well be-
Iieve that the work is,sas the reviewer
says, zone of the ssddest books ever
written"
The present number Of the Review also
contains q pleasant account Of Henry Tho
reau, the poet-naturalist Masson's Milt-
on and his Times Mr.. Brights Return to
the Ministry Note to the Article on Her
bert Spencer, No VI, October, 1878 and
the usual noElees of Contemporary Liter
allure.
Black,Oood's Magazine for February.
lust republished by the Leonard Scott
Publishing Co, contains a greater proper
ton of story and narrative than usual an
order of literature in which t~he'magazine
has earned we'll deserved distinction. The
story of valentine and his brother is
continued SO also is the series Of papers
International Vanities," under which
heading we are presented with a survey Of
those gilded toys, Titles. from the time Of
Menes to our W day. There is not g
/, King in Christianity, net a Paeha in Afii.
ca or Asia, not a naked Chief of Negroes
who does not call himself by an accumu-
lated variety of ornamental denomina.
! tons" We shall be glad to be better &C.
I quainted withSS'Ths Two Specransky3" The
} whole article is pleasant reading, and the
letters from Siberia give an interesting
picture of manners little known to the
Europeans. In 'Scepticism and Modern
Poetry" the writer endeavers to show the
effects Of scepticism on poetical genius, in,
stancing the writings Of Shelley, Goethe
: and Arthur HHgh Clough.
The other articles are "The Book o
: Carlaverock; ''Ths Philosophers Baby :
"The Minor King of Mysore, an interest
ing sketch of how the young sovereign il
, being educated and q review of "Fablei
/ in song" by Lord LyttoD, with some
l charming quotations, essecially from "Th'
Thistle"