Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-03-04
Literary Notices.

a. 4
The opening article In THE popular
Science Monthly,n for March, % Biolog-
ical Teaching in Colleges p BY Prof es-
sor w. q. Farlow, Of Harvard Universi-
ty, is sharp criticism Of the failure of
the colleges and 1.-THE preparatory schools
before them to give an adequate train
ing to the observing powers on which,
by the modern view, all true instruction
ought to rest. Ina Thinking Machine,
Professor Grant Allen makes a caustic
exposition Of the inefiiciency Of the
Observation-Disclosures way Of accounting
for mental phenomena which has come
into fashion among some philosophers.
In Health aud Sex In Higher Educa-
tion,' DR.. John Dewey, Of Michigan
University, presents the results OF the
first real and properly directed effort
that has been made 70 ascertain, from
the facts, the average influence of col
lege study upon large numbers ofyoung
women who have been engaged in 1t
sProem to Genesis is Mr.. Gladstone's
reply to Professor Huxley's Interpret
ers Of Gensis and Interpreters of Ma
ture,' which appeared In February
number of the Monthly DIR. Charles
G. Abbott, In q very pleasant and read
able paper, discussed the value of the
Animal Weather-Lore' on which coun-
try people relied more before the Sig
nal-Service reports were started than
they do now. Professor Edward 8.
Morse furnishes an illustrated article on
Japanese Housed Building DIR. Samuel
A. Fisk presents the advantages Of
Colorado as Winter Sanitarium;' DIR.
Heinrich Mayr discusses the 'Durabili-
ty Of Resinous Woods in the light Of
his own experiments; DR.. Grace Peck
ham considers the condition Of Infancy
In the City, which is bad enough from
the point Of chances of life; Mr.. N. III.
Egleston speaks a word In favor of the
general Institution and observance of
sArbor-Day.' Mr.. Lansing's instruc-
tive paper on Discrimination in Rail-
way Rates and Chauncey Smiths in
teresting article on The Influence of
Inventions upon Civilization are con-
cluded. A portrait and biographical
sketch are given Of Sir Bennett Lawes,
the founder and manager Of the famous
Agricultural Experiment Station at
Rothamstead, England. The editor at
his Table has some very plain talk on
o recent case of literary piracy
New York: B. Appleton & Company.
Fifty cents number, SIS year.
Mrs. Frances II. Burnett, the novel;
list, has written serial story for st.
Nicholas, called Little Lord Fauntle-
roy" the hero of which is boy-char-
acter who is as new as he is delightful.
Born In America, the child of a young
er son of an English earl, his father dies
when he is little fellow, and by the
death Of his uncle, he becomes heir to
the earldom. His grandfather, cross
old nobleman who has never forgiven
his youngest son for marrying against
his wishes, sends for the boy and his
mother. In the March st. Nicholas is
recounted the first interview between
little Lord Fauntleroy and his grand
father, the earl, expecting a convention
al bread-and-butter youth, finds HIM
self confronted with "a graceful child
ish figure in black velvet suit, with a
lace collar, and with lovelocks waving
about the handsome, manly little face,
whose eyes met his with q look ofgood-
fellowship And then they talk. The
boy tells his grandfather about his past
life, about the corner-grocery man with
whom he used to discuss politics, about
Dick the boot-black, who gave him a
q beautiful red silk handkerchief when
he sailed away from New York, with
you can wear 1t around your neck or
keep it In your pocket, about Dear
est as he calls his mother, because he
used to hear his papa call her 80.
"sYou don't wear your coronet all
the timer remarked Lord Fauntleroy,
respectfully.
"No," replied the earl, with his grim
smile; lit is not becoming to me-
s'In the course of the conversation,
he reached the Fourth of July, and the
Revolution, and was just becoming en-
thusiastic, when he suddenly recollect-
ed something and stopped very abrupt
"What is the matter?' demanded his
grandfather. "Why don't you go on?'
'Lord Fauntleroy moved rather un-
earsily in his chair. It was evident to
the earl that Lord Fauntler0y was EN-
barrassed by the thought which had
just occurred to him.
II was Just thinking that perhaps
you mightn't like it, he replied. Per-
haps some one belonging to you might
have been there. I forgot you were an
Englishman."
The story was begun in the present
volume of st. Nicholas and will run
through the year, Mrs. Burnett isIat
work on new novel for The Century.
The March Wide Awake opens with
one of Lungren's best frontispieces,
stUnder the Electric Light brilliant
night-scene. Sandman and Hassam
also have striking full-page drawings
in this number, both with strong fire.
effects, but widely diverse; Hassam's
illustrates Elizabeth Stuart Phelps bal
lad, "The Tenement House Fire.
while Sandham's accompanies Mrs.
Huse's historical Seminole story, "The
Light of Key Biscayne,n and represents
the burning lighthouse. There are
some excellent short stories in the num-
ber, "a Loaf of Cake" by Sophie May,
"The Horse House Deed,n by Mary e.
Wilkins, IAN Unintentional Chase for
a Polar Bear by Lieut.. Schwatka, and
1.-THE Last of the Geraldines,n by E. s..
Brooks, with pictures by Garrett, Pyle
and Sandman. The Serials, A Midship-