The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-05-03
LITERARY NOTICES.

THE May Atlantic continues the remarkable excel
lence attained by the previous numbers for this year.
Those who have read Mr.. Howellss delightful story,
Their Wedding Journey" will read with peculiar
zest his charming paper Niagara Revisited, Twelve
Years after their Wedding Journey" DIR. Holmes
contributes threepage poem and one of the best he
has written, entitled 1.-THE Flaneur,-Boston
Common, December, 1882, during the transit of
Venus.' The Second Act of Henry James's comedy,
Daisy Miller,n will have host of readers. Miss
Sarah Orne Jewett has written very engaging two
part story. "a Landess Farmer" of which the first
part appears in this number. Charles Egbert Grad
dock, whose stories of East Tennessee life have at
tracted much attention, contributes another en-
titled 1.-THE 'Harnt that walks Chilhowee.' Colon
ialism in the United States' is admirable histori-
cal paper by Henry Cabot Lodge; 1.-THE Floods in the
Mississippi Valley" by Prof n. s. Shaer, cnnnot
fail to enlist the immediate interest ofmany thousands
who have vivid recollection of the ravages these
floods caused 1.-The Rain and the Fine Weather. is
capital outdoor essay by Edith NJ. Thomas. Other
poems, essays, reviews ofimportant new books, and
three bright, short essays in the Contributors Club
conclude very interesting number of the ATLANTIC.
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ECLECTIC MAGAZINE.-The May number of this
sterling old magazine is as bright spring day,
and contains something to crafty and satisfy every
variety of taste. The following is Its table of
tents; Jonathan Swift;' 1.-THE Limits of Science
by Rev. George Edmundson; 1.-The Humorous in
Literature" by j. Henry Shorthouse; Brazil and
her Railways by Charles Waring; "Frater fire
4tQue Yale" by Alfred Tennyson; "Boys;' Under
the Snow" story, by Mrs. Katharine S. Macquoid;
''Recent French Novels - 1.-THE Sea Cals,n by James
Addington Symonds; 'sWagner and Wagnerism,n by
Edmund Gurney; "A Persian Carpet,' by Frederick
Boyle; transferred Impressions and Telepathy,' by
Edmund Gurney and Frederick W. H. Myers; IAN
Indian Festival;' "Miss Dairsie's Diary by Lady
Lindsay; "Common-sense I'm Dress and Fashion," by
Lady Paget; Work and Overwork,' by DR.. j.
Milner Fothergin: MY Library;" Literary Notices;
Foreign:Literary Notes; Science and Art; and Mis-
cellany.
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THE North american Rcrielo for May contains nine
articles, nearly every of which discusses some
topic or problem at the present moment prominent in
the public mind. Senator John t. Morgan writes of
Mexico, and sets forth the considerations of COM
mercial advantage and international comfy which
are rapidly bringing about a more cordial under
standing between that country and the United States
The Rev. William Kirkus, taking occasion from
Bishop McQuaids recent yaticinations regarding the
decay of Professionalism makes vigorous counter
charge upon the papal system in article entitled
The Disintegration of Romanism". In Emerson
and Carlyle, Edwin p Whipple discourses with all
his ld-time keenness of psychological insight and
perfection of literary form the strangely diverse
mental and moral characteristics of those great
thinkers. Prof. Felix Adler offers "a Secular View
of Moral Training, arguing that the current skept
cal habit of thought demands independent system
practical ethics, based primarily observation
rather than on revelation. communism in Amer
ica, by Prof. Alexander Winchell, gives very forci
BILE expression to the apprehensons of those pessi
mistc observers the trend of events in this country
who think that they see in our political and social
development all the signs of impending national
decay. The other articles "Aninities of Budd-
hism and Christianity' by the Rev. Dr. James Free
man Clarke; woman a Inventor, by Matilda
Joslyn Gage; college Endowmnnts', by Rossiter
johnson; and "ExtraditiOn', by 4. G.. Sedgwick.
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