Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-04-20

The Forum, for March contained an
attack on the public schools by Car
dinal Manning. In the April number
Prof. George P. Fisher, of Yale,
makes reply and points out the ne
cessary conflict between Catholicism,
as interpreted by Cardinal Manning,
and American institutions, defending
freedom of religion and the public
school. The extraordinary career of
Boulanger in French politics is narra-
ted by a Partisan journalist, Gull
laume c.. Tener, who explains from
within the condition of parties and
politics whereunder dashing adven-
turer, by means ola fine horse and of
popular song in his praise, may
even become President of France.
The Rev. DR.. Vim. Barry analyses
social unrest to find signs of impend-
ing economic revolution, which are
the loss of the old bond of the church,
the rule of the rich everywhere, and
the increase of poverty with plenty
all about it. His essay is a prediction
and a warning. Albion w. Tourgee
reviews the Negro problem to show
the injustice of the rule of minority,
and he predicts a race conflict if the
Negro vote is suppressed by fraud or
force. Mr.. Edward Atkinson, in the
last of his series of essays on social re-
forms, emphasizes the necessity of
giving reformatory agitation practi-
cal turn. Would not better cooking
and more judicious selection of food,
he asks, do more for society than any
pretentious reformatory, theory? Mr..
w. S. Lilly, in "EthicS of Art" de-
fines what art is (for the same princi-
pies govern all art), and he points out
the evidences given in modern art of
the deidealizing life, the necessary
result, as he regards it, of the preva
lent material philosophy of the time.
This essay takes a proper place IN a
series of papers on art, of which Prof.
Chas. Eliot Norton's stDefnition of
the Fine Arts" in the March number
was one. Following his recent in
quiry in the Forum as to whether
America has produced poet, Mr..
Edmund Gosse explains the reasons
for his.fears that democratic tenden-
cies prevent proper appreciation of
literature, and he points outsome dis
couraging evidences of lack of pro-
per American valuation of the great
poets. DR.. Thomas Hill, formerly
President of Harvard, appropos of the
discussion of phonetic spelling, ex-
plains a successful school experiment
that was made under his direction. in
teaching children Ellis's "Glossicn
system. Mr.. G. Bunts, of the Cleve-
land, o.. bar, explains the true mean
ing of the Monroe Doctrine, which
has undergone gross popular misun-
Outstanding. His argument is that it
never became a fundamental policy
of our government, that it rests on no
enactment, and, as commonly under
stood, is contrary to international
law. Darius Lyman, for many years
student, in the public, of our maya
cation laws, points out the legal i'm
pediments to revival ofour carrying
trade, ond shows how the laws need
revising. Senator Stewart, of Neva-
da, brings up for public discussion the
duty of the Government in preparing
for the proper irrigation of our great
area of rainless land, discussing the
question Of the proper ownership of
land and water and reviewing briefly
the experience of other Governments