Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-07

The May Century is to have brilliant
list of contributors. Thomas Carlyle
James Russell Lowell, Edmund Clarence
Stedman, w. d. Howells, Mrs. Frances
Hodgson Burnett, Archibald Forbes,
Constance Fenimore Woolson, John G.
SAKE, Frank R. Stockton. Edward Ev-
erett Hale, Andrew Lang, Richard Grant
White, "Uncle Remus, and II. G. Bun
ner are names which are known in many
fields of literature, and all these and
more are to be represented IN this notable
number. Elihu Vedder furnishes the
second of his cover designs for special
numbers. and the frontispiece portrait
of James Russell Lowell is said to be an
excellent likeness, as well as one of Mr..
Kruell's best engravings.
The May number of ST. Nicholas mag
azine will have some special features in
the way of illustrations which will sur
pass anything that popular magazine has
done heretofore. There will be eleven
full-page engravings in the number, one
Of them from a recent picture by w. NJ.
Chase of New York bootblack, accom-
psnying an article on "Wolf-reared Chill
dren,' by Charles L. Brace, Secretary of
the Children's Aid Society. Nineteen
other illustrations add their attractions
to this one paper. Mrs. Clement will
deal with Correggio, in her series on Art
and Artists, giving an opportunity to
reproduce some of the great masters
choicest work.
The SdnitariGn for April opens with
paper on the Sphere and Progress of
the Medico Legal Society in New York,
the inaugural address of Clark Bell,
Esq, President. 1t is especially inter
esting in showing the relations of medico-
legal science to the Guiteau case, and the
Coroner's Office. Reasoning Mania" in
its medical and medico legal relations, by
Surgeon General William A. Hammond.
is paper of unusual force, justifying
and advocating the punishment, and
even execution, of such criminal insane
persons as possess the power of discrimi-
mating right from wrong, however in
sane they may be in all other respects.
Many striking examples are given which
strengthen the argument. "The Nor
tality of Inebriety," by T. D. Crothers,
NJ. D.. Superintendent of Walnut Lodge,
is thoughtful paper. showing the too
often unsupported fatal results of inc
briefly under other names. "The
Progress of Sanitary Protection
at Newport" as reported by DIR.
Storer, is of continued interest.
Sanitation in the United States, letter
addressed to the Charge dAffaires of
the United States in London, by Edwin
Chadwick, is particularly interesting as
illustrating, by examples in London,
what Improvements may be made for the
protection of the public health in Ameri-
can cities. In the Editors Table of this
number there are some very timely re
marks on Statistics of Vaccination, the
Foul Sewers of San Francisco. ETC.; the
Mortality Statistics of the Chief Cities,
| Vital Statistics of immigration, the Pro
gressive Work of the State Boards of
Health: Alabama, California, Connect
cut. Louisiana, New York and South
| Carolina; and the usually interesting
chapters under the heads of Literature
and Recent Sanitary Patents.
The TFadesman, published on the 1st
and 18th of each month, at Chattanooga,
Tenn, is for sale everywhere in the
South by newsdealeTs. Illus -ations of
mechanical novelties are a feature in
this progressive journal.
TIE american Antiquarian and 0ri
entail Journal, edited by Rev. Stephen
D. Peet, and published by jameson &
Morse In Chicago, is an exceedingly in
teresting and valuable addition to the
magazine of the country, as may readily
be inferred from the following table of
contents: Ancient Temple Architec-
ture." illustrated, s. D. Peet, editor; "a
Find of Ceremonial Axes in Florida
Mound, A. E. Douglass. Rye Beach, n
Y. :" "The Dakotan Languages, and their
Relations to Other Languages, A. W.
Williamson, Rock Island, Ill. :" "Were
the Mound Builders Indians? ]. B. Mac
lean, Hamilton, o. :" ''Some Supersti.
tions of the Live Indians" II. c. Var
row, Med. Mus, U. S. A, Wash
ington, D. c.; Proposed Reading of the
Davenport Tablet" John Campbell, NJ
A, McGill College; Correspondence, c.
Whittlesey, Cleveland, Ohio; Editorial:
''Our Frontispiece, 'In Memoriam,"
Discovery of Deserted City, "The
Stone Age" "Man and Monkeys" ere
cent Discovery of Pottery" CA Pile
Dwelling" Inscribed Rocks, Bronze
Implements in Russia" Prehistoric
Antiquities, . "EtruscaD Relics" General
Review; Book Reviews.
"The Brain and Its Functions" by ].
Luys, Physician to the Hospice de Ia
Salpetriere. This is a work on the struc-
ture and functions of the brain, and is
an abstract of the personal experiences
of the author, gained at the celebrated
asylum in France, with which he is con-
nected. 1t is a work of great interest
not only to physicians, but to the general
public as well. 1t is also appropriately
illustrated
Science and Culture, and Other Es-
says" by T. n. Huxley, LID, F. R. S.
The addresses, lectures and essays gath
cred in this volume, says the author,
have already appeared at intervals during
the past seven years, and he gives rea-
son for republish:ng them that three
earlier collections of a similar nature
have been received with favor, and have
not yet ceased to be in request.
We have also received from Mes.rs.
D. Appleton & Co., l, 3 and Bond
street, New York, the following late
publications: Physical Education on
the Health Laws of Nature" by Felix
L. Oswald, NJ. d. The nature OF this
work may conclusively be understood