Morning journal and courier., 1882-09-20
 RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

The Atlantic Monthly for October is an ex- cellent number. Harriet ". Preston, who is now in Europe, writes interesting article entitled Among the Sabine Hills." The eighth article of the Studies in the South" is marked by the same close and accurate ob servation and the same candor which have made the previous studies so valuable. Lieu tenant Cushing concludes his interesting ac count of the Nation of the Willows" Prof w. T. Hewitt contributes an article on "Uni- versity Administration " The short story of the number is entitled And Mrs. Somer- sham," by Agnes Patton. The number is rich in poetry by Mir. Whittier, Miss Larcom, John McCarty Peasants, T. w. Parsons and Arlo Bates. Horace E. Scudder has 8 very interesting article entitled "An English Interpreter" describing the decorations and paintings made by Frederick James Shields for Eaton Hall chapel, the private chapel of the Duke of Westminster.
 The Populor Science Monthly for October has for frontispiece portrait of Prof. Ru- dolf Virchow, accompanied by 8 sketch of his life. Douglas Graham, M. D., contrib utes paper on Massage" Herbert. Spen- cer's interesting article on 'Mozeley OF Evo- lution'' sharply criticises some statements made by the garrulous and inaccurate Dean in his recent work of "Reminiscences of Oriel College" Other articles in the num- Der are "What arc Clouds" by c. Morft; "rhe Past and Present of the Cutie Fish es," by Andrew Wilson; Explosions and Explosives" by Allan D. Brown; "The Utility of Drunkenness" by w. Mattieu Williams; ''Delusions of Dowbt," by M. B. Bill; ''The Progress of American Mineral ogy," by Prof. E. J. Brush Industrial Ed ;,,f fI,aD D,h hu H. Straight; "Physiognomic Curiosities. !" by Felix Oswald, M. D.; ''The Formation of Saline Mineral Waters" by M. Dienlafait "A Patternship of Animal and Plant Life" by K Brandt and editorial, literary and miscellaneous matter.
 The October number of LippincOtt's Maga- sine is a particularly readable one. Mr. Charles Burr Todd contributes an interesting paper on growing Southern emporium Norfolk, Old and New" There are three sketches, "Bark Canoeing in Canada" My Escape from the Floods" Con the Mis- sissippi last year) and Camping on the Lower Wabash ;'' MT. Henry A. Beers has very enjoyable paper on college life, My College Chums," aud stories, besides the continued serial, '.Fairy Gold" ''An Amateur General" in the Monthly Gossip" will be found decidedly original.
 Harper's Monthly for October has con tinuation of the illustrated article on Surrey poem in Mir. Will Carleton's characteristics vein describing the adventures of an ex fire engine horse, and some shorter verses an article on medical education in New York ,one on Southern California, illustrated, and an- other on Oregon, another of the illustrated series of New York interiors, the third paper of Colonel Higginson's American history, treating this tine of Columbus one on the late Dante Gabriel Rossett, by Mary Robin son; an account of Symmes' queer theory that the earth is hollow and inhabited on the inner surface of the sphere. Mexican rail roads discussed by the Hon. John Bige- low, and the fiction is furnished by Blacks ''shandon Bells," and some bri ght, short stores, including a love story. Odd Miss rodd," by Rose Terry Cooke, lively carioa- ture of New York society called Passages from the Journal of Social Wreck" by Mar garet Floyd, and a athletic Californian tale, Yankee Jim," by Samuel Adams Drake.