Morning journal and courier., 1884-10-23
REGENT PUBLICATIONS.

Lippincott's Magazine for November op- ems with we'll illustrated article, by Ed mund Kirke, giving the narrative of a journey up the French Broad when the roads had been rendered impossible by flood, "A Holiday in Scotland, ,"by Norman Pear son, an English barrister, is breezy account of shooting and fishing in the highlands and the borderland during the ''long vacation" The author of 'sStudy and Stimulants'' dis cusses the position of John Bright in relation to the temperance movement. Catharine Hopley, author of Snakes" has pleasant article on Domestic Pets" Eugene Didier gives gossipy account of American Auth ors and Artists in Rome,' and Theodore Child describes the great bazaars of Paris, under the title of ''The Women's Paradise" The serials by Miss Thicker and the
 Duchess some interesting short stories, poems, and short papers and sketches, make up number of varied interest and attrac- tiveness.
 Among the articles of special interest in the November number of the Popular Science Monthly is paper by S. w. Powell, entitled Drowning the Torrent in Vegetation" Apropos of the disastrous floods of 1893-94 in the Ohio river, the writer urges the impor tance of forest preservation on the steep hill sides in the areas drained by streams. He shows what the experience of other countries teaches with regard to the treatment of for ests, giving in particular account of the ravages of floods in the south of France, their origin and the success of efforts to tame those torrents by reforesting the basins which they drain. Other articles are "Chil- ian Volcanoes, Active and Extinct," by Dr. Karl Ochsenius, translated from Die Natur; ssThe Future of the Negro in the South" i" by J. B. Craighead; German Testimony on the Classics Question" by r. A. Fernald; and Dr. William A. Hammond's paper on ''The Relations Between the Mind and the Nervous System"
 Edward Everett Hale in the November number of the North American Review makes a plea for ''Half- Time in Schools which ought to receive serious consideration. Prof Gillian discusses "The African Problem" The facts that he gives as to the increase of the negroes in the United States, their pecul jar situation and disposition, and the problem they will force upon us in the near future call for the gravest consideration. The other articles in this number are: "Woman as Political Factor," by Judge Robert c. Pit man: Progress in Naval Armament" by Hobart Pasha, who thinks the United States government has been wise in not construct ing a costly navy; f'Friendship in Ancient Poetry" by Principal J. c. Shairp;.'' Herbert Spencer's Latest Critic, /" by Prof E. L. You mans; Illustration, by Charles T. Congdon; and Restrictions of the Suffrage" by William L. Scruggs.
 Harpers for November opens with very full illustrated account of Columbia college. Joseph Hatton describes day at Kew Gar den, and the illustrated article on the great hall of William Rufus is continued. An drew Lang writes of Sydney Smith. Nor man Fisher-Fo1k are described by Mary Gay Humphreys Francis Parkman, the histo- rian, whose papers are more enjoyed than those of any other writer of history of these days. tells the story of the Acadian Tragedy. Mr. Reee,s papers on Nature run on and MT. Black s Judith Shakespeare ends. The edlto- rial tables are readable and there is abund- ance of other entertaining matter
 The first number of the new volume of St. Nicholas is full of good things. It opens with a handsome frontispiece in colors from painting by A. M. Turner. J. T. Trow- bridge contributes the opening chapters of stHis One Fault,' in which the hero, through
 "his one fault'' of heedlessness sets in motion the train of consequences which will follow him and interest the reader through the en- tire volume; and in another serial, Among the Lawmakers" ]" the author, Edmund Alton, relates his often amusing experiences while page in the United States Senate, tells many new anecdotes of public men, and gives a graphic and easily understood account ot the Organization of the national govern ment. Frank R. Stockton, in the first of his Personally Conducted" papers. takes his party of four hundred thou sand girls and boys to some of the monu- ments of Roman greatness found in other countries To boys who are Ready for Bus iness,n George J. Manson proposes to give, ] under this title, the results of his interviews
 with representative men in various branehes