Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-02-21
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

Law hEtORm AND The t
LEGAL PROFESSION is the title of a suggts-
tive address delivered by Charles G Bonner,
president of the Illinois State Bar Associa-
ton, and published in pamphlet form by the
Chicago Legal News Company.
The current number of the Sanitary Enqi
neer contains an article on the Memphis sew
ers and the Wolf river water. The latter is
anything but complim eniary to the Water
G mpany, and should be read by the officers
and directors OF that org anizn ion.
The New York Medical Journal continues
TO deserve well of the profession. The table
of contents for this week is quite of as much
interest and as varied as sny of the %
ceding. The Journal ought to be read BY
every physician who wants 10 stand well in
his profession and keep abreast Of the times.
LIrTELL's LIVING AGE, lor this week, is
ade up OF the following articles: "Panis-
lamism and the Caliphate;" part of
"Singulsr Case;" Charity OF the Early
Church" Escapes and Imprisonments Of
Latude;" "For Himself Aone;;" Thomas
Carlyle" and the usual poetic selections and
miscellany.
TIE current number Of the Sdnitdridn
contains, with the usual editorial and lite
rary matter and mortality statistics, the fol-
lowing articlee: Epidemic Diseases Before
Congress" Senator Harris's report; "Ilegal-
ity Of State Laws for the Support Of Quar-
antiDe Establishment" Judge Monroe's de.
cision; SANITARY Reforms in Canada"
u Union Medicale du Canada; "Medico Legal
Society of New York." fifth inaugural ad-
dress of Mr.. Clark Ball.
The March number OF the Atlantic opens
with the third and concluding part of Mr..
Longfellow's dramatic poem Michael An
gelo," which occupies thirty-oue psges,
=, -.
&C .eristic of Mr.. Longfellow that many
readers will regret that it has come
to an end. John Burroughs, who is
a hearty admirer OF Carlyle, gives an in
teresting account of a trip "Iu Carlyle's
Country" Agnes Patton, who has contrib
uted some very striking short stories TO the
Atlantic, this month has another of the same
noteworthy character, entitled "Antagon.
ism." "By Horse-Csrs Iuto Mexico" is
lively travel sketch by H. II. Mr.. George
P. Latbrop, Hawthorne's son-in-law, con-
lovers will read with peculiar zsst, on "The
Hawthorne Manuscripts" Henry James
| writes in his best vein OF "Tommaso Sal
vini," an article which the multitude Of ad-
mirers of this great actor will read with
great interest The Rev. J. 81. Allen, an
authority in matters OF history, has an essay
| full of inform alton on Port Royal" "The
4 lily Vi Nv Horace IL. w ar
ner, is paper OF startling interest on the
freq uency and effect of earthquakes in Car
scas, in Venezuela. The most notice able
brief poem of the number ia by DR.. Holmes
"A Loving-C Cup Song" O.her poems and
reviews of important new books, with Con-
| tributors' Club of excellent variety, and
brief notices of books of the month, con.
| clude another admirable number of the At.
| lantic
| THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY MEDICAL
| MONTHLY continues to be successful under
the editorial management of DR.. F. L. Sim.
The contents OF the February number are
as follows: Regulation OF the Practice of
Medicine" BY j. NJ. Taylor; "Cise of Ire
phining for the Relief of Insanity" by ]. P.
MCGEE; "Vicarious Menstruation," by A. S.
Holmes; "Malarial H@maturia," by George
FL. Moore; SHE Functions of Floating Cells
or Corpuscles," by F. w. Vance. "Salicylic
Acid, Salicin, Salicyate of Soda" "Case Of
| Retained Fetal Head Separated from the
Body During Labor;" methods of Over
coming Rightly of the o. Uteri;" "How Not
to Use Ergot," Treatment of Delirium>Tre.
msns;" "The Chemistry Of the Electrical
Accumulator;" Constipation )" Foreign
| Thermometer" Treatment of Infantile; !"
Disrrhea by Chsmomile Infusion;" "Con-
4
els;" "Pertussis;" Sponge Grating" ecu
reksISpr ngs Correspondence; ;, "Acknowledg-
ment;" "The Dangers OF Sewer a,;""Lou.
isiana State Board Of Health;" "The Iuflu-
ence of Privy Vaults and Pits Upon Public
Health; ""Notes and Items" "Book Notices."
| Books and Pamphlets Received" Subscrip-
ton price 81 per year; single copies, fifteen
cents. 1t ia to be had at any OF the news
stands in the city. Tue organ OF the medi.
cal societies of this and the adjoining States,
the Medical Monthly ought 10 be generously
| supported by the medicos
HENRY GEORGE, the author OF Progress
| and Poverty, has an article on "Money in
Elections" the first in more than usually
interesting table OF contents in the North
American Reuieu for March. Mr.. George
brings 10 the discussion of that hackneyed
subject a contribution full of originality,
freshness and keen insight; he points out
with admirable clearness one source of our
political ills, and proposes a remedy that
seems both eminenily practicable and eff
ciept. Robert S. Taylor writes of the Sub.
jugation of the Mississippi" work which,
IN his opinion, and in that of the Missis-
sippi Commission, of which he is a member,
can be accomplished only by employing, for
the purpose of deepening and strengthening
the channel, the forces developed by the river
i q
very striking study OF Gladstone as man
and statesman, showing how even the
more or less sinister moral and int llectual
traits of bis nature, quite as much ss
his pre-eminent native force and eleva.
ton of character, copspire 10 make him the
foremost Euglishman OF his time. The Hon
George W. Julian's Railway Influence in
the Land Office" is a grave, judicial exposure
Of the practices which, sgainst the manifest
intent of the law and the determinations Of
the highest courts, have won for corpor a.
lions millions upon millions OF acres Of the
public domain. Richard A. Proctor writes
of the pyramid of Cneops;" Prof. VIM. G.
Sumner of Protective Taxes and Wages; ?
Elizur Wright of "Some Aspects of Life In
sursnce;" and finally, there is a symposium
on Educational Needs" by Prof. G. Stanley
Hsll, Prof. Felix Adler, President Thomas
Hunter and DR.. Mary Putnam jacob. Pub
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