The Portland daily press., 1877-05-24
Magazine Notices.

The Radical ReUiey is new and promising
candidate for public favor. While it may not
hope to win the approval of the multitude of
book-readers IL will be very welcome to large
class of thinkers. In its prospectus it taInounces
that it finds its raison d etre in the want that
has long been felt in America among thinking
aud progressive people, of soma adequate liter
ary vehicle for the carriage and diffusion of the
most radical thought of our time. 1t purposes
to devote its pages to the Thorough, fearless
and impartial discussion of all sides of all sub
jects pertaining to human welfare, whether So
Sa, economic, scientific, literary, aesthetic or
religious''-a declaration which suggests Ba-
cons magnificent boast that he had taken all
knowledge to be his province Though under
radical management or rather because under
radical management" it characteristically says,
sit shows no partiality to any particular school
or special system of belief" The legitimate in
ference is that it will be mpartially iconoclas-
ever temple it finds them.
That the best radical thought of our day
needs some vehicle for its diffusion will not be
denied, and there will be general disposition
with thinking people to accord to this new ven
ture a friendly reception on account of its frank
sincerity, and because the radicals always have
something to advance which is worth hearing.
however widely we may differ from the conclu-
sions they arrive at The contributors to the
new ReUie,o are m ostly the men who cannot
keep SILENT who feel that they have mission
to fulfill, and who, whatever their eccentrici-
ties in the theological way, are foremost in all
active movements for the bettering of the earth
ly condition of man, and are richly endowed
with "the enthusiasm of humanity Iadeed
the new periodical announces that in the seec-
ton of its contents it will give the preference
largely to articles relating to the labor question,
the basis of property, the principles of finance,
and the organization of industry. Among the
contributors announced are the names of John
Weiss. Sidney Fl. Morse, Ellie Rsclus, E. S.
Morse, Francis f. Abbott Samuel Longfellow,
John Fiske, o. B. rockingham. Samuel John
son, John w. Chadwick, Edmund G. Stedman,
Cyrus A. Bartol, and G. W. Buck. These all
work under the editorial supervision of Benia-
min r. Tucker.
The initial number is handsomely gotten up,
bourd in red and black, printed in large, fair
type on tinted paper, and having potable con-
ter, entitled The Two Traditions, Ecciesiastic
and Scientific, considers the doctrine of evolu-
tion in its relation to the truths of religion and
the doctrines of theology. Q. W. Ernst has a
readable and instruc tive paper on Practical
Socialism in Germany. David A. Wasson
puts in print the essay he read in Boston
short time since on Theodore Parker as Relig-
ious Reformer, an essay whose interest is en-
hanced by the notice taken of the Rev. Mr..
Cooks lectures. The editor furnishes the first
nstalment of translation Of Proudhon's Sys.
TEN of Economical Contradictions. Joel A,
Allen contributes paper on The Influence Of
Physical Conditions in the Genesis of Species
and Lysander Spooner offers under the title,
Our Financiers, their Ignorance, Usurpation
and Frauds some sharp structures on the inter-
convertible bond scheme, and proposes sys-
tenn of banking and currency based upon in
dividual credit. Chips from my Studio, by
Sidney 81. Morse, is a medley of criticism and
comment on a variety of topics. Two poems
are given, one BY B. w. Ball, oa Spinoza, and
fine one by E. c. Stedman, entitled The Dis
coverer. The number concludes with thirty
pages of book reviews
The Radical ReUieao is published in New Bed.
ford, Mass, at % Purchase Street. 1t is
quarterly publication, and its price is S.
year.
The reprint of the London Quarterly Rerieao
has been received from the Leonard Scott Pub
fishing Company. 1t has ten original papers,
one of the most important of which is that
upon Turkey, in which the past and future
general character of the Ottoman rule is dis
cussed An article on The Balance of Power
is an attempt to show that the principle On
which Great Britain has acted for three centu-
ries has been just and noble recognition of
her duty in preventing Span Austria, France
and Russia from becoming the robbers and
tyrants of Europe. There is an able review of
Walaces Russia, aud also articles On the lives
of George Sand and Harriet Martineau. n
the article entitled English Thought in the
Eighteenth Century, the author gives an out.
line view of century which opened with
period of political exhaustion and moral cyni-
cism, which found in that very exhaustion and
cynicism the powerful instrument of humor
which was tc strip away disguise and brace the
age to new vitality" There are also papers
on The Military Position of Russia in Central
Asia, The Kitchen and the Cellar, and Politi-
cal Biographies.
ST. Louis has been struck by one of the big