Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-10

| lecture on 'Soap-Bubbes." "A Chemical Pro
| logue," by Prof Henderson, shows how the
help to teaching the truths of nature. Prof
Henderson sees the future physicist in the
DaDy who investigates the breakableness of COB
lets, and the tearableness of clothes, ana tries
to tnd out what dolls are made of. "How to
Make knowledge Real" and THE Recogni
ton OF Truth" are discussed in the Editors
Table"
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WIDE AWAKE for March has history in it,
and poetry, and science, and stories. and
pictures. and all, SO far as we can see, which
anybody between the ages of 6 and l8 can
think of to desire. Everything in it is good.
IL is all In the direction of intellectual and
spiritual uplifting Vide Quake month by
month, is making the boys and girls who read
it do some honest and valuable thinking, and
is making them better boys and girls. If the
young people who go home from school laden
with straps full of books could carefully hang
these burdens on The door knob, or leave them
in the entry till the next morning and take
Wide At0dke or st. Nicholas or Harper s
YOUNG Young =. People for their out.of-school text
better, but they would know more that is
worth knowing.
"The Beautiful Emily Marshalr' is described
in portrait and text, 'Poor Lady Ursula" is a
true story, and like good many true stories in
this uncertain life ends sadly. 'Animals at
Schoor' is set ont with pictures Joaquin
hIlleT ttIlS OF some 1ar w eStern raDDlIs.
Among the Tall Palms" takes the reader
away far into the other side of the world, into
the East. "A Picnic Near the Equator is an
account of sights in Panama. Mrs. Catherwood
Degins serial story +Boney and Bare"
"T HE Limitations of the speakership' is the
discussion in this months North Amer
ican Reuiea0 which will have its pages cut first
in the copies by most readers. Speaker Reed
defends his position in very effective fashion.
Ex-Speaker Carlisle is heard from. The
Speaker cites many precedents. His comment
upon one of them is that "a sense of the ridic-
ulous sometimes rises to the dignity
of effectual saving grace" The case in
point is when the Chair in the Pennsyl-
vania Senate in 1880 decided that he was not
present himself! The ReUiewis is unusually full
of good things this month. Mr.. Westinghouse
has comment upon Sir William Thompson's
recent remarks on electric lighting. A daugh-
ter of Brigham Young shows what long line
they had at home with Sc brothers and sisters.
Max o. Rell has some pleasant things to say
about American newspapers. Edward Bellamy
defends 'Nationalism'' against some of the oD-
jections which have been urged against 1t,
Justin MCCARTHY, in lively paper, has some.
thing to say about "Coming Men in England"
Senator Morrill, continues the free trade con-
troversy. P. I. Barnum thinks the coming
centennial celebration ought to be made the
greatest show on earth, even greater-If posst-
ble-than his own great moral show.
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uTwo SOLDIERS" is the complete novel in
Lippincotrs for March Captain Charles
King, whose military stories are well known
and deservedly popular, is the author. The
two soldiers did their fighting with Apache
Indians. w. H. Stacpoole has an ingenious
Hint to Novelists" He suggests some such
reconstruction and rewriting of the lines of
classic characters in fiction as has been done of
late in history. Mr.. Froude has made a new
Henry VIII, and it is maintained now that
Nero, instead of tiddling while Rome was
burning only fddled afterward at an enter
tainment given for the benefit of the sufferers
Why not make new Becky Sharp? Why not
reconstruct the veracious history of 1vanhoe
after the fashion of Mark Twain with Sir
Thomas Mallory?
"RERLIN, the City of the KAISER" leads this
month in the Cosmopolitan. Frank G.
Carpenter describes an Easter in Jerusalem.
Soldiers and signal codes have papers, Brown
ing is discussed by Emily Shaw Forman. Prof.
Boyesen has novelette, entitled "a Candidate
for Divorce" which has a heroine almost too
unmotherly to be real 1.-THE Evolution of the
Gondola" is described by Herbert Pierson.