Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-12-13
LITERARY NOTES.

Funk & WagnalIS. 10 and II DeY street
are rendering important service TO the read
ing world at large by publishing books and
periodicals of the highest character-mOSt-
ly adapted TO the use of Bible students and
scholars. They also issue works in the line
of general literature. One of the grandeSt
books they have yet issued is a comprehen-
Siye, eclectic commentary on Psalms, in
seven or eight volumes, by Rev. c. II.
SDurgeoR. Of the great tabernacle, London,
meuts, the choicest comments of all the
worlds great Biblical scholars. The last
volume of the series has just been issued.
Mr. Funk is 4 native of this city. and his
partner. Mr.. WagnallS, was for years a
Wittenberg student.
Cassell Il Company. 7S9 and al. Broad
way. are very extensive publishers of illus
trated and other works, OF high. moral
and literary quality, and also OF that Su-
perb mOnthly-the MdgdziHC Of Art, which
is unique and uneXcelled in its line. They
also publish the Family Magazine and The
Quircr The price of the tirst-named is IS
a wear. and of the Others, Sl.50 year.
Professor W. q. Sumner has made a care
ful study of the question of What makes
the rich richer and the poor poorer and
will communicate the answer 10 it which be
has reached, through the January number
Of the Popular Science Monthly. His pa
per on this subject will be the Inst article
in that issue.
Edward Atkinson, the eminent -sstisti-
cIan and political economist, has begun in
the Century series OF timely papers. One
on the food question is published in the
December number. In the January and
February numbers he will publish two ar
ticles on The Relative Strength and Weak
ness of Nations" They are said 20 contain
the most valuable and suggestive study of
the material growth of the country yet made
by any single writer. Mr. Atkinson will
treat in other papers of Progress from
Poverty" The Margin of Profit, " Henry
Georges System of Land Taxation" etc.
Sir John Lubbock, who is as eminent for
the personal attention he gives to the dis
charge of his duties as an inspector of
schools. as he is in scientific research, will
have an article on Manual Instruction, in
the January number of the Popular
Science Monthly.
Frank 7. Crandon begins the discussion
Ol lllt hlSSbNtinlHtiii VI 'iItdl NltltS. III
the January number of the Popular Science
Monthly. with ar article in which the diff
cuItieS of the question are forcibly set
forth.
The CentiIry for January will contain a
brief biography of George Bancroft, the dis
tinguished historian. The article is written
by Professor Sloane, editor of the Princeton
RerieJc, and formerly the historians
private secretary. The article is written
with the assistance of Mr.. Bancroft, and
among other things, an account
of his career as secretary of the navy under
President Polk. and an authorized state
ment of his interviews with Goethe and
Byron.
John Reade has a very interesting article
in the January number of the Popular Sci
cncc Monthly on The Intermingling of
Races" in which he shows that crossing is
a general an almost universal phenomenon
IN human history. that has been going on
for thousands of years, and is still going on;
and that most of the existing races of men !
are to q greater or less extent. the results |
of it.
The object in Daniel Greenleaf ThOmp- |
sons article on Science in Religious Edu- |
cation, in the January number of the Pop |
tJiGr Science MOHthlH is to make plea |
for giving science a more important and T.
place in religious education, in or
der. among other things, that clergymen. |
when they come TO deal with scientific |
questions, As they often have to do, may be |
more fully prepared for the work.