National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-11-22

number, and now announces q December
edition Of 100000. The "War series,'
which was begun by Con- Beauregard, Ia
continued in an article on "Tho CAPTURE
of Fort Donolson," from tho pen of Gen.
Low Wallace. A fine engraving of Gen.
Grant, the hero of that occasion, serves
as frontispioco. Edwin Dowden tellsus
about dublin City," James r. Mckay
speaks Of "Tho Poets Advent" VIM. A.
Baillie-Grohman describes "Hunting the
Rocky Mountain Goat" Mrs. Schuyler
Van Rensselaer, gives us american Paint
ers In Pastel" ''rhe Poet Heine," by
Emma Lazarus; "Winter Neighbors," by
John urroughs; "rhe New Astronomy"
by $. p. Langley; Chapter III in "Tho
Rise of Silas Lapham," by W. ID Howellf;
The Principles and Practice of House
Drainage" by George L. Waring, jr. IAN
Adventure Of Iuckloberry Finn, "by Mark
Twain; Topics of tho Times;n "Open
Letters" "Bric-a-Brac;" &C., constitute in
part tho remaining pages of this valuable
number.
The da ngor of incidental harm to tho
community, or to certain classes Of peo-
plo, from the increased use OF machinery,
tho extension Of public works, 60, Is
greatly diminished when those who mako
the laws, and especially those whose duty
Is progressive science; that IL is means,
not an end; that when state of things
arises Tor which there il no precedent, q
new precedent must BIO made. How tho
most enlightened jurists hold this prnci-
pie constantly In view. and how the COM
mon rs well as the statute law is thus
made to keep pace with tho general ad-
vance of civilization, is admirably set
forth in the leading article in the North
american Rcciew for December. Labor
and Capital Before the Law" by Judge
t. M. Cooley, of Michigan. To tho same
number William X. Alderman contributes
some suggestive Notes on Railway Man
agement." by. Schliemann tells what he
found in his excavations of tho ruins of
Tiryns, in southern Groeoo and Princi-
pal Sharp supplements his scholarly arti-
Gle on Friendship in Ancient Poetry"
with one on Friendship in English
Poetry" The other articles in tho num-
Der are The British House Of Lords" by
George Ticknor Curtis, and "Responsi-
bility for State Roguery," by John f.
Hume.
"The Eclectic" for December comprises
o varied and striking table of contents.
Among the principal articles will be found
the following: Charles Reade," by Al
gernon Charles Swinburne; Americans
aihNou w lhciuSelNcSt ny l-duy NcTueyJ
democracy" by James Russell Lowell;
Zurich Won Liechtonstoin, THE Future
Of the Soudan," by Capt. De Cosson; de
Mortuis," poem; newspapers and Eng
lish, Goethe" by Prof. j. Il. Seeley;
"Carlyle's Lilo in London" by Froude;
"Balzac's Dreams" "Queer Flowers"
''Stoam, the Tyrant," "Coleridge's Intel
loctual Influence" ION the Reading of
Books" Italian Summers" progress
and Wages" "The Population of Europe
in A. ID. 2000," and "Mr. Gladstone"
Tho Literary Notes, Foreign Literary
Notes, and Miscellany are usually full,
and comprise items of great interest to
the general reader.
The Printers Circular and stationers aud
Publishers Gazette, from r. s. Menamin,
Philadelphia, contains articles upon "Wil-
bur +. Storey, er-Journalist;" In
dignant Paper Maker" THE Great Eng
lish Printers; Good and Bad Trade Jour-
nals.p &c