Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-11-25

APPLETON for December transGibes the
piouant details Of Lieut. Woods visit to ''The
Roof OF the World" IN other words, the head
waters of the Oxus, in Central Asia, from
Black1cooG.
1Ir. Pollock from the Nsneteenh Century
prophesies literary longevity to Dumas, robust
enough to Withstand present assaults Of
detractors.
Paris Two Years Before the Revolution, :"
is entertaining and eraisen,5la5le.
Admirably readable is the chapter given
from Justin McCarthys "History OF our
Own Times, work indeed quite worthy Of
entire perusal, as is demonstrated by the re-
view given to it further on
Clarence Mangan, a young, brilliant.
scholarly Irishman, but through his short
life unappreciated and unfortunate, is
established by felow-countrymen in his
rights as poet
A curious and learned study Of deg nature
finds place.
Under the heading Sectional Literature, .
Judge Tourgees works are severely handled
and the attention of the reader ia called to
Miss Larneds "Windham County" which it
may be remembered excited mich comment
from the Nation some weeks ago, aud Mr.,
Pixies PROSTATE State, South Carolina under
Negro Government, rs REPUTATION Of many
OF his positions
HARPER for December, the first number to
be published in England, is out, bearing Us
Its initatory and appropriate reminder III
verse and illustration that Christmas is near,
followed by excellent cuts of the English
Lakes, with descriptions from the facile pen
OF Moncure d. Conway. The head of Words
worth is the finest and most impressive pre-
sentiment of the poet, giving delicate, aged,
thought-worn face, quite different from the
fresh, plump, ideali2ed photographs which
have some vogue.
ANNE" the new novel by Constance Feni-
mere Woolson begins with sketch of charm
ingly unusual life. Then comes a little sar-
casin on the mode OF settling canons of art
criticism.
A sketch OF Pittsburg gives prominence to
its ninety glass furnaces No modern
machinery can do away with primitive re-
lance upon lung power in glass blowing. A
blower equal to sheet of As by rs or so
inches even throughout Is sure of his $50 per
week.
curious sketch reveals the oddities of
New iearh Day AZ observed by the iuhabi-
tants of Chinatown, San Francisco, on Feb
ruary 8.
Poor Mrs Flint's Married Experience" is
well illustrated.
valuable paper details the advance Of the
movement for higher education for women
Those who know anything of social life in
Germany, will not be surprised that here ii is
the most conservative of civilized countries
At Harvard the results are gratifying The
Dement'S OF Miss 1lcknors unobtruslve but
effective society to encourage studies at home
are so easily attainable, and have been 20
eagerly grasped, that il is impossible to gauge
its usefulness.
Mr.. Rowland sketches an ideal city.
organ grinders, ash barrels and horses he
would eliminate, by reason of the different
disagreeables thereto inseparably attached.
The December ATLANTIC calls upon Mr..
| Mallock to give more earnest expression to
| the faith that is in him. Sketches and lia-
| logues are too slender for his work Not that
| is Life Worth Living" which is Mallock at
his very best, did not go beyond them but its
successor Dialogue concerning Human Hap
| plness' Is relapse. In the discussion a brief
but just and glowing tribute is paid to George
| Eliot, whose e1raeStneSS none ever questioned
| PORTRAIT of lady promises TO he one OF
the best things written by James
Some melancholy facts as to '.Children'f
Labor are brought forward Ten per cent
| II seems of the working classes of New
England depend upon it to exc out subsist,
| ence.
A curious study of the sense OF smell i,
| given. Dltferept Newspapers as the theor,
for example, the New York Herald, Tribune
Word are readily distinguished latter frs
trial, even BY an ordinary nose The test i
certainly within every ones reach.
Nothing OF the prest MT issue has NOR
claims than 1.-The Transitional American
Woman, 1t is conceived in genuine am
sensible sorrow for the calm good, but ex
tlnet being who did not distluiu to be IL "help
meet
Of late novels, Mr. Cables ''Grandissimes" /
highly conmended.O On the contrary reviewer
IN general seem agreed that Mr. Black
! il 10 4. II