The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-03-25
LITERARY NOTES.

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Contents of the Atlantic Monthly,
for April: The Portrait of Lady, XXI
XIV, Henry James, Jr.; Concerning
Dead Love, Rose Terry Cooke; What
we Learn from Old Aryan Words,
John Fiske; The Longing of Circle,
Cameron Mann; Friends, A Duet, TX. x,
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; Voltaire's
School Days, James Parton; The
Wives of Poets, iv, William NJ. Ros-
setti; Her Ghost, Louise Chandler
Moulton; The New Sunday, Julius Fl.
Ward; Sonnet, Frances M. Brown;
"reminiscences of Washington, XII.
Thei Fillmore Administration, 1850
1888; Secrets, Ella Wheeler; The
British Philistine, Richard Grant
White; Johnson's Garrison, and other
Biographies; The Last State of Eng
lish Whiggery; A Century of Dishon-
or; Two German Novels; The Contri-
butor's Club; Books of the Month.
Barnes International Review, April,
lSSl.-The April number of the Inter-
national Review is now ready, and
contains the conclusion of Edwin Ar
1old's new poem, "Iliad of India"
which must be reckoned a great lite.
AIRY attraction. 1t is written In the
peculiarly beautiful manner of "The
light of ASIA" and is in no sense infe-
Tor to that very popular poem. elm
'rovements in Prison Discipline" Is
in article by A s. Moyrick. who NAV
Justly be presumed to know whereof
le writes, as he was the working mem
'er of a commission on prison labor
appointed by Governor Mcclellan, of
New jersey, in 1879. Great interest
will attach to DR.. George f. Ellis's ar
icle upon DR.. Seabury-"The First
American Bishop" from the fact that
!e was the pioneer Episcopal bishop in
america, and that the article discusses
he whole establishment of Episcopali-
nism in this country. President ID.
:. Gilman, of John Hopkins Univer-
ity, contributes a valuable sketch of
be life and works of DR.. Francis Lie
er. Madam u. Ragozin, a Russian
ady residing IN New York, gives the
rst instalment of a series Of brilliant
nd spirited articles upon the trial of
ne Russian Nihilists, under the title of
The Last Trial of the Russian Mill
'ts,". her facts being drawn from the
riginal stenographic reports of the
rial. DIR. Ernest w. Cushing writes
the "Statutes Regulating the Prac-
ice of Medicine" and the number
loses with a strong and appreciative
eview of "Schurz's Administration of
ne Interior Department" by Henry l.. |
'elson. The number is one of las ting
nd solid qualities, and has articles OF
mely and present value. so cents a
lumber. $500 q year. A. S. Barnes
Co., publishers, N. Y.
In the North American Review for
april, is noteworthy article by Judge
|. W. Tourgee, in which the prof ossed
eformers of the civil service are out
n the defensive and their schemes ofI
eform pronounced to be incompa tible
nth American ideas of self govern.
lent, and on divers other grounds in
and impracticable. The
anne number of the Review contains.
nder the fanciful title, "The Thing
nat Might be-" a profoundly pbilo,
optical study of the laws and condi
ons OF human progress, by the Rev.
lark Pattison, Rector of Lincoln Col
ge, Oxford. The third article is a
rong defense of the Roman Catholic
de OF the controversity about Religion
the Public School, from the pen of
lshop McQuaid, Of Rochester. The
eat problem of the governmental con-