Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-05-30

. lmaiN De taught i curious
study Of the mind of our dumI
/ fellow creatures, especially with rrirl
rncr to the question whether they
might not be- brought up /" the faculty OF
/ speech. The Factors al Organic EVolu
/ ton, by Herbert Spencer, l. the last "t five
mStaImrut> of an argument by the great
master on his taynrtr theme. There are
! ten other contributions, every one of which
i alive with interest and rrpIrte with in
>trurtion: and the Editors Table is. aS al
WAYS. the department that the hahitual
reader of this magazine generally turns to
the nrNt thing.
The atlantic MOrthIu for June
. lHoughtou Mittim n Co.. Boston, - a
YEAR has good chapters of the serial stories,
The Golden Justice" OF William
Henry Bishop, The Princess CaSamaN-
Nima" Of Henry James, and I'm the
Clouds, " of Charles Egbert Craddock: a
poem of unusual tor Boston, originality,
king Raedwald," by Helen Gray Cone;
two racy and appreciatiyr criticisms, one
"n H"N"EE DE BALZAC by George Fred
eriCk Parsons, and the other on JANE~.
CKAwFnED. AND HuwEII.> by a writer
VIII" withhold> his name perhaps for the
reason that he has chopped into that little
wooden idol HowellS with meat aNe; a..
FOR example. the very limitations Of a
clild'S nature accord with the limitations
of Mr. HowellS'S art: for he See>
people, a. it were, here and there
and that is just the way We see child. No
larg" conception is required, no long Slls-
tanned sight following a figure through
diverOus ways. but mainly a sympathetic
penetrating vision of miniature nature
which di>cluSeS itself by little signs. This,
and more like it, sounds a. if it might be
FROM Aldrich, the present editor of the 1T
lGHfjc and he need not have gone blank.
fur lluwelIs will know who he is a. well
aS il he had printed his signature at
the close of his neat murder with the blood
on his razor These are the most noticeable
articles in the June issue. but there Fare
several others, prose and poetry.
that are up full Oh the 4uditic'~ high plane
of excellence.
-Nt. Nicholas for June The Century Co,
New York, S. YEAR has fulI-page illus
tration for frUntispiece that makes "A June
Morning" alive with cattle wading in water
birds in forest trees. flowers, and sky. But
il is only one of many admirable drawings
in this number; aS, for example. the series
Of SCENES in Queen Paris" OF the litera-
ture of ST. Nicll"InH il is superiluou> to
speak. 1t, prodigality of excellence is a
standing wonder.
Last weeks TcrdS Sifting> has a full
fromt-page cartoon representing the elephant
Uncle sam under packsaddle filled
with members of the commune throwing
dynamite. while the back ground is covered
with dead and diving from the explosives.
1t is picture that startlimgiy answers the
question printed beneath il: Isn't it about
time that this elephant threw of his load
and sat down on it," Ii is time The men
who come To this country with the red flag
of the commune in one hand anSa bomb in
the other should be welcomed with bloody
hands 20 hOSpitable graves" BY the way.
A. Minor Griswold is now one of the edi-
tors Of TcrG> SifthigS, having recently re-
turned to New York from his long
sojuum in Paris. But we do
not notice that Gris'S old-time
humor has contracted any FrrnchinrSS of
flavor. Ii >mackS of the regular old Amer
lean article, the best in the world.
-FUrc"rdHincd: 4 Story # Hcrcdify.
THIS purpOrtS To be a romance. as it were.
1t is publication of Fowler Il Wells. New
York. and is a stupid and disgusting treatise
on the delicate topic which they have been
whangioUdling across the continent in the
name Of literature in the past half century
or 50. Ii is such literature aS nobody but a
coroner should be obliged TO read. and then
only when setting in an inquest Oh the
body of the author for the
purpose Of >erking a Justification for the
homicide.
R0mcr Hing of Norcnu dnd OthCr
Dndnu>. By Adair Welcker. This trag-
ical writer says that his address is Sacra-
mento. Cal. He states that he will send
his little square book of 245 pages OF blank
verse for $500. We should say the book
WAS cheap enough, if one wanted il. But
We are afraid that there will be- the rub.
However, several newspapers seem to have
puffed the author prodgiou>ly, and he has
pasted their putfS on the outside of his cover.
They all call his genius ShakSpearean. every
one of them. 1t is. We ask Sam Reed. :.
K. L. of the Commercial Gdz,tte, to take
these two quotations and tell us which is
Welcker and which is Shakespeare:
AT hrSt the infant
Mewling and pukimg In the nurses arms
Then the whining schoOlbny, creeping like
snail,
Unwillingly {" school"
"Wading the pond. with pants rolled To his
He sails his ships 10 distant foreign ports:
or. in his fathers boots and fathers coat,
An ancient sword, that dragS upon the
ground,
Beats on his drum, that swings from side to
side
And which is the better of the two.
Samuel, honor bright. throwing aside Your
personal prejudice against the elder bard?
AFEAST OF MU.Ic.
Programme of the Belle CoIe-Orpheus Con-
cert Monday Evening.
The Belle Cole concert at the Grand Mon /
lay evening is attracting the attention
II all music lovers, not only on account of