Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1884-09-11
oURRhNT LIrERATURE.


Bishop Spalding takes the moral basis of
popular government in the NORTH AMERICAN
REVIEW for September. He is sound, sober,
discriminating, and writes somewhat in the
tone Of Matthew Arnold, but minus affecta
ton, paradoxes or cynicism.
Mrs. Cady Stanton appeals for more liberal
divorce laws, but her defense OF their sup
posed working will appear weak to those not
suffering from bonds of bitterness.
Charles Dudley Warner, laying aside the
facetious, cries out against the self-defeating
demands Of the exclusively industrial spirit
in education. The universities, he argues,
should be q bulwark against it and makes an
able defense OF Greek, 80 1t be made to in
clude an acquaintance with the life, literature,
philosophy and temper OF those who once
used it.
DR.. Rylance's article on inspiration is
equally free from commonplace and cant.
Several able writer's, among them, David
A. Wells and Prof. Summer add to the endless
literature provoked by the tariff.
The ART AMATEUR for September has
oounterfeits in various branches of art much
on its mind. The wealthy connoisseurs would
do well to take warning. ....
The dramatic Feuilleton Is delightful.
| Opera it seems we are to have,
but no resources under command
can rescue from failure the Metro
politan Opera House. 1t is sad warning
against faith in millionaires. Boston con
/ graduates itself over the bequest Of the late
Harvey D. Parker to its Art Museum, the frs
| OF the sort ever received.
Several specimens OF the work Of TIT
American Art Club at Munich are given, also
several heads from Greuze.
The treatment Of the boudor in pretty
unconventional fashion, is insistt upon
From the embroidery department many hint
may be gathered.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes replies In tn
Critic of September 9th, to the sixty.fy
American and English authors who congratr
lated him in that paper week ago, on th
occasion Of his seventy.fifth birthday.
The first numbero of MUNsEYs ILLUSTRATE
WEEKLY has appeared. 1t is gotten up
close imitation OF Harper's Weekly and ha
it appeared upon its own merits, instead
being heralded by a significant begging ci
cular from the Republican chairman, B.
! Jones, to government employees throughol
the country, 1t would have been entitled
| the benefits Of an impartial comparison wit
{ the publication after whose makeup it pa
q terms. AS it is the ludicrous send OIL Whit
the funny man Of the New York Times Civ
c the new journal has been fairly earned.
William Mosley Hall, who first presented
' The Current, the claims of Mrs. DAVIS
formerly Wilhelmina CreswelD to the cree
u Of the authorship Of the grand hymn
: "What is Prayer 7" returns to the subject
:. The Current Of September 9Th, and, in
,. plain, matter-of.fact manner, restates
position, with particular evidence in favor
:, Mrs. Dawson as against Montgomery. In
l. near issue of The Current, Colonel A, I'll,
Dawson, the son of Mrs. Dawson, will, as
e recently announced in The Independent
10 New York, publish his proof, in consideral
detail, on behalf of his mother.
" Mr.. W. d. Howells will contribute to T
ID CENTURY, during the coming year, series
70 descriptive papers on the life, socie
!. customs, &c, Of the cities Of northern Ita
beginning with several on Florence, to
n entitled "a Florentine Mosaic" The O,
q, turys wood-cuts, after the etchings
Whistler, Haden, and others, are alrea
VI well known, and il is announced that
le Howells' series will be illustrated with rep
!, ductlons OF etchings by Joseph Pennell, "
W accompanied the author through Italy DUR
y the preparation Of the series.
q Prof. Langley'f interesting paper on ESP
on the Sum-" in the September Century, '
al be followed by another on "The SUMS S
n, roundings," in the October number Of Il
magazine. The remaining articles Of
brief series, also profusely illustrated,
last two of which will treat Of the moon 8
4, stars, will appear in early numbers Of the &C
- ing volume.
TX The opening article in the October Cent
n will be Lights and Shadows Of Army Lii
an anecdotal and reminiscent paper.
he George F. Williams, the we'll known
nd correspondent, during the Rebellion,
author of "Bullet and She'll" The illust
ke tions will be reproductions, now engraved
la the first time Of the well known etchinga
Ia Edwin Forbes, the pictorial war corresp
no dent.