The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1879-01-26
NEW PUBLICATIONS.


copy of this admirable document whose every
page is instinct with his own philanthropic
devotion to the highest interests CT his fellow
citizens.
After touching allusion to the sad effects
of the epidemic upon popular education, the
Superintendent plunges Immediately into his
Report of the condition of all the public
schools throug ghout the State, with many mat
are suggestions as to their improvement.
The notorious hardships suffered by the
teachers of our city echools are alladed to in q
most feeling manner, and the plane proposed
for their relief are eninently practical. 1t is
to be hoped the Legislature will be prompt to
carry out the measures here indicated, and
thus relieve both the city and the State from q
long standing scandal.
We are particularly impressed by the Super
intendent's views as to the necessity of reliev-
ing the public school teachers from the dis
agreeable duty of acting as nursery maids to
the many hundreds of six year old infants who
now flock into the primary departments. When
these unressoning children are excluded, it is
easy to see that the rem aiming pupils will re-
ceive much moro attention than they can
under present circumstances.
One of the last, but not least important,
suggestions on the score of improvement in the
system, is in regard to the teachers themselves,
who should be so drilled by competent inspec-
tors as to become fully fitted "for the organi-
zaton and conduct of really good free public
schools which will do honor to the State of
louisiana"
The tabulated statistics appended to tae Rs
port, form a mass Of valuable information for
all who are interested in this the most import
ant social question of the age.
address derlirered at the Fifth Anniversary Gle
bration of the Ntr Orleans Medical and Surgical
4 association. By Thomas Layton, AM, NJ ID.
P. December 7th, 1873.
Here again, and most appropriately, the late
epidemic furnishes the theme not only for the
overture, but for a large portion of the main
opus. Our good friend, DR.. Layton, to whom
we indebted for copy of his address,
makes right candid showing of how doctors
disagree on the absor bing questions of "impor-
tation," "local origin" "quarantine," ''disin-
fection," etc.
Without attempting to establish any dog
mstic theory of his own, the Doctor gracefully
insists upon the lofty position which medicine
maintains among the sciences, and compares it
very fsvorably with literature and the fine
arts-painting, sculpture, music and the like
adopt the motto 'Laboremus" aud ever follow
the banner bearing the device "Excelsor!'
Donahoes Magazine for February.
Appears promptly in fulfilment of its early
promise, and bears within it's hundred pages
more than thirty select articles on most varied
topics.
The most voracious bo worm must confess
that Mr.. Donahoe has kept his word as to the
abundance al an al ba do
for his customers, while the most fastidious
cannot fail to be satisfied with the sppetising
"spice" of variety" set forth and even the
chronic grumbler about the ''high price of
books" must be disarmed and abashed, at
being confronted by a monthly mage zine of
such sizs aud value as this, furnished for the
small sum CT only two dollars year.
North american Rerie,c. JdnnGry, 1879.
This standard periodical, now in it's sixty.
fourth year, will henceforth appear monthly,
to the great qualification, no doubt, of it's old
patrons.
Edited by Allen Thorndike Rice, and pub
lished by D. Appleton & Co. there is no fear of
any falling off in either its literary or meohani-
cal excellence. While it's Typography, paper
and binding are unexoeptionable, the proprie-
ty of its reading matter is largely guaranteed
by sppending to each article the name of it's
contributor.
To show it's range of subjects and authore,
we give the table of contents for the present
number The Fishery -lloard, Senator Edmunds
Unpublished Fragments Of the Little" Period
Thomas Moore. Cities as Units in our Politv
William r. Martin. The Preserration of Forests
Felix L. Oswald. The "So1id South" Henry
Watterson. Tie Pronunciation Of the Latin Lam
g~age w. w. Story. Substance and Shodo,o in
Finance, George S. Boutwell,. Tie Cruise Of the
Florence, Captain b. w. Howgate Recent
Fiction, Richard Grant White.
Candor oompels us to say that We have not
yet read this number and we have merely
glanced at the articles of Mr.. Watterson and
Mr.. Story. The manly and independent tone
of the former, and the learning and philosophy
displayed in the latter give Us anticipations Of
great enjoyment in their future perusal.