Morning journal and courier., 1881-02-21
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

The North American for March discusses several timely topics. The number opens
 with thoughtful paper by Bishop Cole on Theology in the Public Schools" The au- thor would exclude from the schoolroom all
 sectarian dogmas, whether Papist or Protes-
 tant, but he insists on the retention of the
 Bible, first, because that book is the princi- pal fountain of our English speech, and sec ondly because it is really the base of our so-
 cial system. The second article is by Captain Eads, who endeavors to show the practicabil- ity of his ship railway its advantages over all canal schemes, and why the United States can without risk guarantee the payment of
 six per cent. interest on $5O, O,O0O,OO0 of the capital stock of the proposed company. Judge H. H. Chalmers writes of ''The Effects of Negro Suffrage" and asks for the sympa thy and counsel of the North. The other ar
 ticles are ''The Free School System, ,'by John D. Philbrick; Pathological Charlatanism, :" by MT. John Fiske, whose typical theological charlatan is Mir. Joseph Cook and, finally, 8
 review of some recent publications in phys
 ics by Professor A. W. Wright.
 noticeable article in LipptncOtfs Maya
 zine for March is s'Six Months in Country
 House in Russia" The article on ''The Di-
 amond Mines of South Africa by E. B. Big
 gar, brings down the history of these remark
 able discoveries to recent date. ''Moose
 Hunting" by 'tCanuck," is vivacious &C.,
 Scotia 'tMy China Boys" by Fannie Ste
 venson, presents some unfamiliar types of
 Chinese character. Phebe D. Matt gives an
 account of s'The Paris Art Schools" Dr.
 Charles W. Dulles discusses ''The Physical
 Uses of Pain,'' and Charles Burr Todd de- scribes 'sThe American Newgate, " an old un- derground prison in East Granby, in this State The stories are 'Lilith, "The Kid"
 "A Law of Nature" and capital sequel to the Shakespearean Burlesque, "Place aux Dames,'' which was publi shed in Ltpptncott's some years ago. Another short serial
 "Craoue- O .doom |" will be commenced in the April number
 The AtEanttc Monthly for March. the last number to be issued under the editorship of Mir Howells, is excellent number. Be- sides the serials it contains short story by Katharine Darlington, entitled fThe Elev- enth Hour" some Random Recol1ections of England" by Richard Grant White, ''The the Standard Oil company, by H. D. Lloyd, an article on .sThe Genesis of Genius" by Grant Allen of England, in reply to the ticle in the October number, by William James, on ssGreat Men, Great Thoughts and Their Environment, paper treating of The End of the War;" by Theodore Bacon, the third of ". M Rossettis essays on '"The Wives of Poets, :" an article on New York Theaters," poems by Dr. Holmes, Rose Ter " Cooke and others, besides some book mo- tices and a bright Contributors Club. It is now officially announced that MT. Howells is to be succeeded as editor of the Atantic by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and that the policy of 4I- s,, 1>a E. AL. least.
 Scri6ner for March has number of inter esting points. The second part of Mrs. Bur nett's piquant novelette,, "A Fair Barbarian,'' '' will be eagerly read. "Ericsson's Destroyer, and her New Gun,,' is the subject of paper by MT. Charles Barnard. In Musical Fossil bilities of America" Mir. Theodore Thomas writes practically of vocal and instrumentals culture church and theater music, bad and good methods of teaching, and of American violins. 'In London with Dickens is a chronicle of the localities of Boz, including MT. Tulkinghorn's house, Limehouse Hole Jenny Wren's house, the Inns of Court, etc. Another similar paper is to follow. There is an illustrated article on "John Singleton Cop ley" by his granddaughter, Mrs. Amory Still further variety is given to the number by a second paper of "Recollections of Ameri- can ooclety, Dy Mrs. 3. W. Oakey; an Illus trated paper on Striped Bass" by MT. Francis Endicott; an account of Protestant ism in Italy, by Rev. Washington Gladden. more Notes of a Walker, y including discus sion of Shakespere's natural history, by John Burroughs; "A Dangerous Virtue, striking short story. by Mir. H. H. Boyesen; the fifth part of MT. Schuyler's "Peter the Great as Rnler and Reformer," illustrated by Blum, Nehlig, and others, and the concluding paper of sGlimpses of Parisian Art, :" with studio