Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-07-19
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SHADOW AND SUNSHINE is a temperance
tale by Prof Reeves, published at Water
Valley by w. b. Burns. Price, fifteen cents.
THE REvIsERs' ENGLISH is the title of a
little book composed of a series of criticisms
showing the revisers' violations of the laws
of language, by q. Washington Moon, FIR.
81. New York. Funk & Waynalls, 10
and II Day street.
The MAGAZINE OF ART, for August, is a
superb number, the illustrations to the arti-
Gle on Canterbury Cathedral being espe-
cialiy noteworthy for the peculiar and charm
ing effects produced by the tint which sur
rounds them all. The Thames and Its
Poetry" reminds us of the best work in
HaTper's and the Century. The illustrations
TO Current Art" are admirable copies of re-
cent notable works by distinguished artists,
and'very properly find a place in magazine
which to the uninitiated in art is guide,
and TO the artist is directory. Cassell, Pet
ter, Galpin Co., publishers, New York.
The NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, for Au-
gust, will challenge popular attention. o.
B. rockingham, in an essay on THE Ethics
OF Gambling" analyses the passion for play;
Charles W. Elliott discusses "Woman's Work
and Woman's Wages" taking ground against
the encroachment by women in the fields &C.
cupied by men, as it has tendency to over
crowding and reduction of wages. "The
Remuneration of Public Servants" by Frank
d. @. Carpenter, is an article that all men in
political life will read with interest, and the
essay by DIR. c. A. White, of the Smithsonian
Institute, on "Artesian Wells on the Great
Plains" will arrest the attention of
intending sheep farmers in Texas. Henry
Ward Beecher writes of Progress in Re-
ligious Thought" pointing out the many in
fuences-social, educational and scientific
which are by degrees transforming the
whole structure of dogmatic belief and teach
ing. 7. V. Powderly, the official head of
the Knights of LABOR, the strongest union of
workingmen in the United States, contributes
a temperate article on "Ihe Organization OF
Labor" The well-known British military
correspondent, Archibald Forbes, writes of
"The United States Army" The Reriew is
for sale at Mansford's, on Main street.
The American people should be as proud
of the Popular Science Monthly as OF Harpsr's
or the Century Magazine. II is distinctive,
and has accomplished more for science, more
for the education of the people in science
than any other or all other publications of
its class put together. Every number since
the first has been specially useful; that for
August is no exception. The first place in
it is given to the conclusion of Du Bots
Reymond's article on 1.-THE Physiology of
Exercise" in which the action of exer-
else on the nervous centers, its relation TO
natural selection, and the comparative merits
of different systems Of gymnastic and out
door training are considered. DIR. 3. w.
Richardson's article on National Necessities
and National Education" which touches on
physical education very properly has the
next place. Mr.. William w. Jacques con-
tributes paper on "Acconstic Architecture"
NJ. Stajnlaus Meuuier describes "a Gigantic
rossfi DIrd," and Prof. John TyndaIl gives
the measure of the "Progress of the Germ
Theory of Disease In "The Book-Men"
the late T. Wharton Collens shows what
knowledge owes to the school-men closet
students of the middle ages and succeeding
centuries, vindicating their claims to de-
gree of appreciation which this age Of out |
door investigation is too APT to deny |
them. DIR. Andrew Wilson is the author |
of lively paper "About Elephants" |
and Prof. Harvey w. Wiley explains
"The Chemistry OF Sugar" Mr.. Alfred |
C.. Lane has a paper on "Iranscendenal |
Geometry" This is followed, and relieved, |
by Mr.. Winters paper, my Spider" the |
interest of which lies in its individuality |
and its incisents, and which appeals alike to |
serious and light readers. A not uncommon
phenomenon is described in Sudden Whiten-
ing of the Eair;" "How Plants Resist De-
Kreitler, frsh from q scientific expedition in
Central Asz, describes, in ''The Topmsst
Country of the Earth" the land of Thibet,
and its singular isolated people. The portrait
and sketch are of Baron Nordenskold, the
distinguished Swedish explorer, who has Just
achieved tie circumn&vigation of Europe
and Asia. published by d. Appleton & Co.,
of New YoK, and for sale by Mansford. 29S
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