Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-24
REoENT PUBLICATIONS.

The Popular Science Monthly for Decem- Der opens with an illustrated account, by w. F. Allen, of ''The Reformation in Time Keep ing" which was accomplished in the United States and Canada year ago. A practical paper on s'School Culture of the Observing Faculties" is contributed by J. c. Glashaw
 Dr. T. D. Brothers describes, under "Alcoho- lie Trance" 8 state of inconsistencies of persons own acts which sometimes follows the excessive of liquors; and there is discussion of ftThe Problem of Universal
 5uffrage,' by Alfred Fouiree; Grant A1len's "Queer Flowers,'' Oddities of Animal
 Character" and "Cannibalism as a Custom"
 by A. St. Johnson, are interesting articles.
 The address of E. B Taylor before the British
 association, on American Aspects of
 Anthropology," is given in full and
 Dr. Taylor is also the subject of the who have read any of Mattieu Williams ar ticles will be glad to get his chapter on tea and coffee. Bishop Temple, in considering
 Religion and the Doctrine of Evolution"
 takes the ground that evolution concerns
 only the method of nature and does not con fiict with an original creation or the existence of @ Creator. t'The Perils of Rapid Civiliza- tion" are illustrated by c. F. Wilmington, M. D., in the case of the American Indians, Maories, Hawaiians, and other peoples. Starvation, it's Moral and Physical Effects, :" is considered by N. E. Davies. ''The Oil Supply of the World" is concluded and there is short account by Jules Jamin of the means employed for the ''Liquefaction of the Elementary Gases"
 The Atlantic Monthly for December has an installment of Dr. Mitchell's story, "In War Time" and there is fourth paper de- scriptive of "The Lakes of Upper Italy" :"
 
 1 of cover the Andss' Frank T. Maryials \ contributes a sketch of the French author | and poet, Francois Coppee. "Penelope's | Suitors'' is the title of story of the olden | time by Edward Buckley. George Parsons Lathrop gives his opinion of Com l biuation Novels" ''These Are Your Brothers" is the title of 8 pleas l ant paper on birds and their ways, | by Olive Thorn Miller G. E. Woodberry I describes Poe's Legendary Years" Edward I Stanwood contributes an article on Canada | and the several stories, poems by Helen Jack son GIL H.) and E. R. Sill, and the usual I bright talk in theContributor's club. The next I number, beginning the new year, will con- t tain the first of series of papers by Oliver Wendell Holmes, called '.The New, Port ' folio," and the opening chapters of serial stories by Mrs. Oliphat, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Charles Egbert Craddock.
 1 The danger of incidental harm to the com munity, or to certain classes of people, from ! the increased use of machinery, the exten-
 sien of public works, etc., is greatly dimin- ished when those who make the laws, and especially those whose duty it is to interpret them, recognize that the law is progressive I science; that it is 8 means, not an end; that when state of things arises for which there is no precedent, new precedent must be made How the most enlightened jurists hold this principle constantly in view, and
 how the common as well as the statute law is thus made to keep pace with the gen.
 era1 advance of civilization, is admirably
 set forth in the leading article in the North
 American Review for December, "Labol
 and Capital before the Law" by Judge T. M | Cooley, of Michigan. To the same number
 William K. Alderman contributes some sug- | gestive "Notes on Railway Management. | Dr. Schliemann tells what he found in hif excavations of the ruins of Tiryus in South ern Greece, and Principal Shairp supple
 ments his scholarly article on Friendship il Ancient Poetry" with one on Friendship il English Poetry" The other articles in tn. number are ''The British House of Lords, I by George Ticknor Curtis, and s'Responsibil
 ity for State Roguery," by John F. Hume.
 The Century for December has for it frontispieee a profile portrait of Genera
 Grant, engraved from recently found pho 1. tograph taken in 1862. It accompanies tn , second of the papers on the civil war, 9Th !, Capture of Fort Donelson''' which is contrib utes by General Lew Wallace, who con
 1 manded the third division of Grants arm
 I during the siege A score of illustration present views on the field, portraits of off cers, maps and (not the least 1T
 teresting) an autograph copy, recent
 1y made by General Grant, e his famous fEUnconditional Surrender l dispatch to General Buckner. The f'Reco l. Iections of Private" are continued, with d, . scriptions of the early Campaigning to I Purpose" along the Potomac, with ilIustr 3 tions. In both papers the drawings are nea B ly all from photographs. Mark Twain hl