Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-01-27
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Two weeks ago we published a
rather trenchant remonstranee, a0c-,
casioned by the tardy delivery of
this volume to GAINESVILLE subscri,
bers. We now gladly acknowledge
the prompt response OF the New
York publishers, Charles Scribner's
Sons, to our remonstrance by des-
patching special delivering agent
TO GAINESVILLE. More than that, we
have to notice richness and solid
merit in the volume now received,
remarkable even in comparison
with the excellence of former issues.
Some of the most prominent arti-
Giles in which demand brief men,
ton on our part.
In metaphysics, Prof. Fraser's
exhaustive article on Locke COM
pletes the work commenced by
Prof. Adamson in the previously
issued articles on Berkeley and
Hume, giving us comprehensive
analysis of the British school of
metaphysics of the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries, on which
were based the speculations of the
later German schools of Kant, Hegel
and Fichte. Prof. Adamson re-
sumes his labors by sinking deep
shaft into the rich mine of modern
metaphysics in finished article on
logic.
In pure mathematics logarithms
are carefully discussed by Mr..
Glaisher, and applied mathematics
receive valuable contributions from
Prof. TAFT in an article on Light,
and from Miss A. M. Clerke in her
memoirs of LaPlace and LaGrange.
This lady. whose name was previ-
ously unknown to us, seems fairly
entitled to the honor of succeeding
Mrs. Somerville as the English eX-
emplar of the Muse Urania. h
Topography receives especial at
tention. The four important Eng
lish counties of Kent, Lancashire,
leicester and Lincoln, and the
American Kentucky and Long
Island are well illustrated with
maps and descriptions, among these
we would call attention to the ex-
cellent account of the physical and
geological features of Kentucky,
furnished by Mr.. j. r. Proctor,
author of the State geological sur
vey of that State. Beside these we
have towns and cities innumerable,
with London at their head, all with
excellent maps. The map of Lon
don is a marvellous specimen of
what modern map engraving can
do. A good lens is required to
study it, and with such aid more
information can be acquired about
the monster metropolis than from
maps of ten times its size as printed
in former days. The letter-pre
under this head comprises an inn
mense magazine of statistics.
DIR. W. Robertson Smith, under
the heads of Kings, Levites and
Lamentations, gives us the results
of advanced biblical criticism, with
a depth of learning and lucidity
of illustration which could be dis
played by no other living British
divine.
These are only few of the heads
under which art, science and litera-
ture are surveyed in the present
volume. No newspaper notice
could give even a catalogue of all
the important papers, we will only
make room for the remark that the
publishers have wisely adopted the
practice of employing American
writers to discuss American subjects.
We have already alluded to Mr..
Procter's able description of Ken
lucky, to which may be added a
memoir of Abraham Lincoln by
Col. NichOlay, of the Supreme
Court, Washington, and some
shorter articles, all of considerable
merit.
One advantage this volume pos
sesses over its predecessors is that
in its articles on British counties
and towns it gives the results of the
census of 1881, which was not pub
lished soon enough to be made use
of in previous volumes. We make
the suggestion that in some future
volume they make a tabular list of
those cities and counties whose pop
ulation is given according to the
census of 1871, specifying the subse-
quent increase or decrease.
1t would be injustice to close this
notice without mentioning the
splendid series of maps presented
gr0tuit0usiy to the subscribers with
this number.
The publishers had become dis
with the maps furnished in
the earlier volumes, as not giving
the results of the United States |
coast and geological surveys, and of
recent information furnished by
the pOstoffice department, the land
office and the census bureau. Ac-
they have furnished new
maps of Alabama, Arkansas, Colo
RADIO, Connecticut and Delaware.
No such maps of our States can be
obtained in any other way. We
would especially notice the map of
Colorado as giving the only accu-
rate representation of the noun.
tains of that State, as ascertained
by the world renowned survey
made by F. V. Hayden for the U. S.
Altogether, the receipt of volume
gives us an excellent appe-
tite for its successor, volume fifteen.
DAY after day, some terri De ca
destructive of life, either
On land or sea, follows close upon
he heels of another, verifying the
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