Morning journal and courier., 1882-04-20
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

The Atzantic Monthly for May opens witA the first installment of Thomas Hardy's new serial 1.-Two in Tower" Elizabeth Stuart Phelps leads us through three more chapters of her interesting story of Dr. Fay. Edward G. Mason gives the history of 'Old Fort Chartres" in Illinois, which once played a prominent part in the great French scheme of the union of Canada by line of forts with the region of the West and South. Eugene W. Hilgard discusses the Progress in Agri- culture by Education and Government Aid'' in a sensible way. "The House of the Mer- chant Prince'' is continued The collapse of the Union Generale bank at Paris is described by J. L. Laughlin. Among other contr1bu- tions are review of Renan's Marcus Aure- I1us, "Evolution of Magic" by Elizabeth Robins, and 'The Divine Right of Kings by Mary w. Hummer. The usual miscellany completes an excellent number.
 In the May North AmaerfcGn Recieo Carl Schurz discusses ''Party Schisms and Future Problems" Samuel Ward gives some very pleasant personal "reminiscences of Ilon9fel- low. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps writes upon "What Does Revelation Reveal, and holds that the objections brought against the Bible by modern unbehevers are based upon mis conception of it's true intent and scope. The Navy" furnishes Lieutenant Commander Cor ringe with fruitful subject, which he han dies in 8 very vigorous and at the same time discriminating manner. That very sugges- tive thinker, W. H. Mallock, contributes the first of a series of papers entitled "Cenversa- tions with a Solitary" /" in which he indicts the advocates of democracy and modern pro- gress as evil doers. The last paper In the number, ''The Spent Bullet" is by Gail Hamilton, who in her customary scath1ng manner shows how science, religion and law were all at fault in the Garfield -Guiteau tragedy.
 The PopuZar Science Monthly fer May contains sketch with portrait of Sir John Lubbock Alfred Russell Wallace writes of Monkeys" Robert VI. Lovett writes of "The Development of the Senses" An ex- ceedingly interesting article Is the description and history of the stereoscope, by w. Le Conte Stevens Nina Morals replies to Miss Hardaker on the woman question. An inter- esting description is given of the tree that bears quinine by O.. R. Bacheler. Among other contributions is paper on the ''Lho- erty of Thought" by Rev. E. Woodward Brown ''Color Blindness and Color Percep- tion'' by Swan NJ. Burnett, and Professor Goodwin Smith as a Critic" by Herbert Spencer.
 Ha1pe,'s for May contains the beginning of a new story by William Black and continues the serial 'tAnne." ''Some London Poets, '' by Edmund Clarence Stedman, contains sketches and portraits of Gosse. Marston, Dobson, ,Swinburne and others of the younger English poets, and Music and Musicians in Austria, D by Mary Alice Seymour, is em- bellished with large number of portraits of distinguished musicians of Austria. George Parsons Lathrop contributes his second paper on Spanish Vistas,n giving. picturesque sketch of Toledo, and the accompanying illus trations by Reinhart are beautiful specimens of pictorial art. W. H. Gibson writes and illustrates in a charming manner an idylhc paper about the woods and rail fences, en- titled A Squirrels Highway" There are other good prose articles in the number, and the poem, Hove and Death" by Edwin Arnold, is notable one.