Morning journal and courier., 1885-05-25
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

Harper s TOT June cOnIalnS Cne Sl4Gn part of Miss Woolson's novel, ''East Angels" the concluding part of 'tAt the Red Grove" illustrated by c. s. Reinhart; nove1ette by Brander Matthews, entitled "A Secret of the Sea-" and humorous sketch is contributed by Mary Tucker Magill, entitled "A Geor- gian at the Opera" Among the important articles of the number are English in Schools" by Professor A. s. Hill, and Glow Earthquakes are Caused" by Richard A. Proctor. The illustrated articles are MT. Millets Baltic sketch; Ladies Day at the Ranch" Gin Kansas), by Alice Wellington Rollins; Knoxville in the Olden ,Time," by Edmund Kirke; "Bogota," by Lieutenant H. R. Lemly; "A Night With the Germans" " by R. E. zogbaum; and 2 P' Poem' ''po Te, poems are contributed by Robert Burns Will son, Joel Benton and Louise Chandler Moul- ton. The frontispiece is an engraving by w. B. Closson from G. F. Watts painting, "Pa- olo and Francesca" Illustrating an article by F. D. Millet on the Watts Exhibition, in which the writer asks and answers the signi- ficant question, 'sWhat shall our artists paint?" We are promised in the July num- Der the first part of a new novel by W. D. Howells, entitled "Indian Summer"
 Lippincott's magazine for June continues F. c. Baylor's amusing story Con This
 
 snobbish Americans are pleasantly satirized. John Heard, jr., contributes some agreeable letters "From the Isthmus," that of Panama, to wit. Sophie Levett tells the story of ''The year 1900" Frederick Stone the Conouerors in 1870" writes of the German army in France. And anony- nous contributor ventures to answer the question 'tWhat Shall 8 Woman do When her Husband Fails in. Businesss Martha Bertha Wright has g. short story, "The Pompeian Ida" and Edith Robinson anoth- CT, 'The Skeleton of Pipe" "Aurora" by Mary Agnes Thicker, is continued, and there are ether short articles, poem or two, "Our Monthly Gossip" and reviews.
 The Popular Science Monthly for June is unusually interesting. Henry Gannett opens with brief article on an irrepressible topic, in which he returns negative answer to the question, "Are we to become Africanized p, Professor Benedict, after his preliminary discussions on the ''The Nervous System and Consciousness" develops his interesting conclusions on the correlations of thought and organization. M. de Laveleye, the Bel gian socialist, writes at much length on 1.-The State versus the Man, in answer to Spencers ''Man versus the State.
 
 lively. The eminent London biologist, Professor Flower, expounds ''Whales, Past and Present. with illustrations. ssThe Fuel of the Future" "Sulphurous Disinfectants, D Concerning Kerosene" and "The Mediter- ranean of Canada" are very readable papers. 'tThe Ways of Monkeys is an entertaining study in a fascinating branch of natural his tory; and Professor Grote's "Moths and Moth Catchers' is timely paper by one of our first chronological authorities.
 The North American concludes it's seven teenth year with it's June number. In this number ''Shall Silver be Demonetized?" is answered, pro and con, by three distin- guished economists, Sumner, Laughlin and Walker, representing Yale and Harvard col leges and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. fsThe' Tardiness of Justice'' is | and Prohibition in Politics. by Gail Hamilton; "The Swearing Habit | by E. P. Whipple, and 'French Spoila- l ton Claims" by Edward Everett. The poli- | cy of the Roman Catholic hierarchy toward | our Public Schools is assailed in learned | essay by new polemic, MT. M. 0. O'Byrne, ! of North Carolina, and defended by Bishop Keane, of Virginia, with equal erudition. l "How Shall Women Dressa' is answered by 1 Charles Dudley Warner, Elizabeth Stuart 1 Phelps, Dr. W. A. Hammond, Dr. Kate J Jackson, and Mrs. E. M. King, the English 1 leader of the dress reform movement
 | The June Atlantic is 8 pleasant number.
 One of the most entertaining articles in it if
 called ''Dime Museums: From Naturalist's
 Point of View" by the Rev. J. G. Wood,
 the English naturalist. Kate Gannett Wells l gives 8 picturesque description of Passanar quoddy Island and it's hermit; there is ar
 account of six months spent at Astrakhan | by Mir. Edmund Noble, who has just pub lished a book called "The Russian Revolt; ,
 and paper on Modern Vandalism" by Elizabeth Robins Pennell about Staples Inn l London, and the church of Ar, Cali, Rome, both to be de
 stroyed. A statement as to government b,
 committee, at Washington, by J. Laurenc
 Laughlin and 'sThe Forests and the Census, l by Francis Parkman, will interest student
 of politics. The three serials-Mrs Oli
 phant's Country Gentleman" Miss Jewett'
 Marsh Island, D and Charles Egbert Grad
 docks Prophet of the Great Smoky Noun
 tains, " have all their usual interest Dl
 Holmes "New Portfolio" is also as bright 8 |