Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-19
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

Ha5pe,'s for October opens with lightly
 written and prettily illustrated paper by the
 artist w H. Gibson, on "A Berkshire Road"
 Another woodland paper is Adirondack
 Days" by Henry Vane. Joseph Hatton con-
 tributes paper on Journalistic London,'
 in which there is a great deal of interesting
 account of the newspapers of to-day, and
 considerable about the growth of journalism
 outside of London. MT. E. Strahan con-
 F. A. Bridgeman; MT. c. Barnard writes of
 modern telegraphing; MT. H. w. Grady
 writes usefully on the growing of cotton
 Mir. c. c. Goodwin discusses the Mormon
 problem in timely article and MT. c. F.
 rhwing describes the Peabody Museum at
 Cambridge. Besides this, there are the chap
 ters of two serial novels, two stories, the ed
 itors' departments and no verses save Miss
 A. c. Brackett's.
 The October >4ttGntic contains two morej
 chapters each of the serials of MT. Howells
 and MT. James. Richard L. Dugdale writes
 of the ''Origin of Crime in Society" and Col
 T. W. Higginson writes of 'Carlyle's
 Laugh" Sarah Orne Jewett contributes
 charming little sketch entitled ''River Drift
 "OOu AAO AWO lAdL4ACtS. \1Ac b"O cuI-
 tions of the play printed in 1908 and 160D by
 Richard Grant White, is treated in Mir.
 Whites usual learned way. The beautiful
 reminiscence by H. H. ''The Katrina Saga"
 comes to an end. "A Tropical Sequence"
 by Charles Warren Stoddard, is charming
 tale of the South seas. Elizabeth Stuart
 Phelps contributes an article entitled 'Is God
 Good ?'' which was answers emphatically in
 the affirmative. One of the most interesting articles in the magazine this month is con
 tributed by Phillips Brooks, who writes of
 ''Dean Stanley" Three poems are contrib
 uted by Dante Gabriel Rossetti s. NJ. B. Piatt and Julia c. Dorr.
 The North Anae15cGn Re0ieoo contains in it's October number three papers from active politicians. Senator Morgan, of Alabama, under the title of ''Some Dangerous Ques- tions,'' talks about the provision of the Con- stitution which relates to inability" in it's relation to the existing situation. Senator Edmunds maintains, in reply to MT. Fields recent article, that as matter of fact centrali- zation has not been carried beyond the linn its set by the Constitution, and Governor Hendricks attempts to show that the tariff cannot be safely left to politicians, but must be settled as a matter of busin ess purely. President Gilman distinguishes a college from a university and shows how much re- mains to be done before an American college can properly assume the latter title. Professor George P. Fisher, of New Ha- ven, writes upon 1.-The Elements of Puritan ism'' The remaining contributions are the chapter of Desire Charnay on ''The Ruins of Central America" and two historical studies, ''Why Cornwallis was at Yorktown" by Sid ney Howard Gay, and Washington as Strategist," by Colonel Henry B. Darlington.
 AppzetO1es' Journal for October is full of good reading. First we have another install ment of Victor Cherbuliez' 'tNoirs ct Rouges;" Richard A. Proctor turns his versatile pen to a discussion of English as spoken in Great Britain and America; a number of sketches and "reminiscences by Ivan Tour genieff are collected Robert D. Osborn writes about lawn tennis and it's English players: w. Hale White defends Goethe's opinion of Byron as against Matthew Arnold; ''Saints and Sinners" is continued and there are papers on French Intellectual Life;" ''The Meiningen Company Two Theories of Poetry" the beginning of an Adventure in the Philippine Islands," and several bright editorial articles.
 Ltopincott's Magazine for October opens with a charming and finely illustrated paper on 'sGrand Traverse Bay," by Maurice Thompson; a well written account of Cor dova, with it's relics of Moorish grandeur, by S. P Scott, and most entertaining pa per on the Sacred Baboons" of India, form | ing the seventh chapter of Dr. Oswald's | Sociological Curiosities," are also carefully il lustrated. My Journey with King" by Louise Coffin Jones, is vivid and amusing account of a voyage among the Sandwich Islands with King Kalakaua and his suite: "A Day in the North Woods" by Ward and ''Young America in Old Eng Iand," by J. Magruder, are lively, and we'll constructed sketches. There are several short stories in the number-s'Mr. Harkin's Niece" by Sydney Chase, "Dora's Trifl," by the late Ella Williams Thompson, and 'tChaperons, and an Afternoon Tea" by Ed | ward Wanton, besides long installment of dBonner's new serial, ''TheValcours. /"
 selection from "The Letters of Madame Remusat to her Husband and Son'' is pub
 ished by D. Appleton & Go. The period | covered by the letters is from 1904 to 1913. | These letters are of course less valuable his | torically than the memoirs which preceded them. They are more domestic and less po- itical in their character; they affect her mar rower social and family circle more than they | 10 the matters of diplomacy, state and court 1 gossip, and give less of her familiar knowl- sdge of the habits and character of Napoleon and other public personages. The reason for this is strongly presented by her editor and grandson Paul. According to him, fear of the secret police of Napoleon, who opened letters wherever and whenever they could l lay hands on them, was the reason for con- ducting a correspondence on system some what more than diplomatic. There are let ters arranged expressly so they would do the most good, in case they fell into the hands of the police. Flattery of Napoleon more or less broad or adroit occupies good part of them Flattery of her husband and ejacula- tions of affection and sorrow at the long sep aration incident on their several employ