The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-06-05
Scribner for June.

The "modern quality" of Scribner's
Monthly, which has been recently re-
marked upon by a critic, is fully sus-
tanned by the June issue, which is un-
hackneyed, cp to the times, and full Of
points.
The opening paper on "The Fine Arts
at the Paris Exposition" has been de
laycd by the late arrival of some of the
most interesting of the illustrations.
Mr.. Vedder's contribution is a drawing
Of his own much praised and much
abused "Young Marsyas." Mr.. St.
Gaudens makes a pen-and-ink drawing
of Dubois's beautiful statue of "Faith, /"
and the "Charity" of this eminent
sculptor is also engraved. A contrast
to the texture of the plaster of this is
shown on the opposite page in a cut Of
Chapu's bronze "Grati:ude. Not to
mention others, these four pictures have
permanent value which will tempt
many to cut them out for framing or for
special preservation. The paper has
illustration of other American and for
eign art-work, with superior ground
plan and views of buildings, the aim be-
ing to give an intelligible description to
those who did not visit the Exposition.
The first Of several papers on Edison
and his Inventions" by Mr.. Edwin NJ.
Fox, is devoted to the electro photograph
and its applications. This is perhaps
the most complete account Of this i'm
portant invention. The six years growth
of this remarkab invention is described
by Mr.. Fox with much incidental light
on the inventors methods of work. The
application to ocean cables to increase
the speed and tins To reduce the cost of
transmission, and the application to de-
tect feeble pulsations of the heart, are
here treated for the first time. Future
papers will in like manner include much
that is new, since the writer enjoys pecu-
liar facilities in Mr.. Edison's labratory.
A timely paper is Mr.. G. G. Buel's
"Piercing the American Isihmus."
"With Stonewall Jackson" by Mr.. A.
G. Redwood, is a spirited account of the
Confederate side of the second Manassas
campaign, in which the writer was par
ticipant, are treated with vigor and fresh
ness, to which are added several pictur-
eseue genre drawings by the writer him
self, exhibiting a number Of distinct
Southern types.
.The University of Berlin" by Prof.
Fl. H Boyesen of Cornell, is illustrated
with portraits of some of the great men
to which the institution owes its superb
ority. Mr.. Boyesen gives thorough
exposition of the German university sys-
tenn and discusses its relations to Ameri-.
can education. The writer was q stu
dent at the university and has recently
visited it in order to prepare this paper.
In the department, DR.. Holland dis
cusses 'Souihern Civilization" and can
Aspect Of the Labor Question: ''Home
and Society" gives Suggestions to
Ocean Travellers" and a sketch of polo;
in Culture and Progress" besides the
book notices, there is a long review of
the Art Season of 1889, and informa-
ton about the concord Summer School
of Philosophy" in "The Worlds Work."
the writing telegraph is described and
and other processes are treat
ed; "Bric-a-Brac" is given over to pleas
ure and dialect.
Mr.. Henry James's new story, to be-
gin in the Midsummer Holiday Scribner
is entitled Confidence"