Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-07-27
place or to those who have been there.

place or to those who have been there.
Rev. Brook Herford contributes a
remarkably interesting paper on 1.-THE
Tustworthiness of Early Tradition, -
showing that j, is not at all unreliable
hearsay or gossip, but. as general
fact. can be accepted as valid history,
at least as the facts were understood
by those who transmitted them from
one generation to another. 1.-THE
Hare and the Tortoise. by Sarah One
Jewett, is a story which will be read
with great satisfaction by those who
know how charming Miss Jewett's style
is. and What wholesome. cheerful at
mosphere pervades her stories. Henry
James writes of"The Country of the
Loire" as the second of his series Of
papers relating to French county seen.
cry and life, entitled En- Province -
Ernest w. Longfellow. son of the world.
famous poet, contributes an excellent
article on "Reminiscences of Thomas
Couture" the famous French artist.
Miss F c. Baylor mas a paper, 1t
once authentic and cunously interest.
ing. concerning Virginian life. entitled
"In the Old Dominion" Charles Dud.
ley Warner contributes another of his
sagacious and humorous travel
sketches. "Around the Spanish Coast"
Olive Thorne Miller. who has a pecu-
liar felicity In writing on subjects per-
tanning to natural history, furnishes an
admirable "Study. of a Cat-bird." Prof.
Herbert futile writes of Academic
Socialism" thoughtful article which
cannot fail to challenge the attention
of large body of intelligent readers.
The number contains poems by Mrs.
Piatt, G,ace DEMO LitchfelG, and
Charles F. Lummis reviews of several
important new works; and the usual
collection of bright, brief ESSAYS in the
Contributors Club,-the whole making
a remarkably good summer number Of
the atlantic.
The North Ameyiean Review for
August opens with very spirited dis
cussion Of the subject of ''Moral In
struction in the Public Schools" by
the Rev. DIR. R. Heber Newton, who
offers practical scheme for convey
ing ethical instruction without refer
ence 10 religious :enets, and the Rev.
DR.. Francis L. Patton, who maintains
that the Bible must be made the basis
of all moral teaching. Henry D. Lloyd
exposes the tricks and frauds of specu-
lation IN grain, which operate 20 make
bread dear. and flagrantly in opposition
to public policy. woman in Politics."
by ex-Surgeon-General VIM. A. Ham
mond, is caustlc discussion of certain
facts of nervous organization which in
his oDinion render the female sex I'm.
ftten for participation in public affairs.
Hon. Francis A. Walker reviews
Henry Georges Social Fallacies.'
critizing in particular his doctrines re-
gardIng land-tenure and rent. The
evils resulting from "Crude Methods
of Legislation" both national and
State. are pointed out by Simon Sterne,
who advocates the adoption of certain
rules of legislative procedure which, in
English practice, have been found to
serve as an effectual barrier, both
against lobbying and against the mis-
chiefs OF ill-considered law-making.
Charles F. Wingate writes of 1.-THE
Unsanitary Homes of the Rich," and
there is joint discussion of "Science
and Prayer" by President Galusha
Anderson and Thaddeus B. Wakeman.
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