Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-07

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EVERYTHING in the Forum is readable and
quotable, and if we had the space which
the editor of the new ReUiei0 of ReUie1OS has.
in which all the new magazines are discussed
at length, we might consider its attractive con-
tents by the column.
MIR. GRANT ALLEN is still catching it" in
the Popular Science Monthly for his
"Plain Words on the Woman Question" Miss
Alice B. Tweedy asks and answers in the
negative, the question SIS Education Opposed
to Motherhood?" The Swedish wood-carving
instruction, which they call "Sloyd," has an
article. describing Sloyd school in Boston.
The old topic ''Ethics and Religion" is dis
cussed IN much the old way by Prof. 10y. OF
Harvard Northern lights. Pategonians.
Dragons, tabled and real, ghosts and the gold
of the alchemists invite the reader Prof.
Huxleys paper on ''The Natural inequality of
Man" is reprinted from its English pages.
There is sketch and portrait, of David Kitten
house, the clockmaker astronomer.
OUTING gets more interesting than ever as
the outdoor days draw near. With the April
number the sixteenth volume begins. THE
English Yachts in 1882 are capitally written
up by Prof Sumichrast, and pictured by Fred
S. Cvzzens. The reader goes antelope hunting
in Western Texas and fox hunting in the
happy hunting grounds of England. Fishing
in Alaska is entertainingly described. Lawn
tennis and bowling are given articles. wheel
and Camera in Normandy" is by ]. w. Frodich,
who contributes both the text and the pictures.
''The Pedestrian Tour of Mr.. w Webster" is
clever story.
CHRISTIAN REID, whose name is always
promise of good things, contributes the
complete novel to the April Lfppfncotrs. The
hero's Cast for Fortune" is made in Mexico,
where after pretty hard luck in his search for
silver, he finds the lonely daughter of Mexi-
can gentleman, whose company proves to be
better than gold. Julian Hawthorne ends in
this number his publication of his fathers
"Elixer of Life" What a manuscript Haw-
thornes must have been, in which when
word displeased the writer he quietly blotted it
out with his little finger drawn over the fresh
ink and wrote another word on the black spot!
Wilson Barrett. the English actor, maintains
that Hamlet was not mad, but feIgned mad
ness to serve his purposes. A concise account.
which many readers will welcome, is given of
Stanley's expedition for the relief OF Elnin
Pasha. Who Emin is, and why he needed
to be relieved, and where he was, and
how Stanley found him, and wha> happened
afterward, is all set down here in good, plain,
understandable order. Mr.. Richard Vaux, ex-
Mayor of Philadelphia, begins in this numbera
series of interesting recollections OF people
whom he met in England good while ago.
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COVER the Calops'' is still the leading attrac-
ton of the Atlantic, though some will
turn first this month to Mr.. Oliver 7. Morton's
civil service reform article. DR.. Holmes has
his opinion of realism" in fiction, and the
opinion is not a complimentary one. He says
that the additions which have been made by it
ito the territory of literature consist largely
in swampy, malarious, ill smelling patches of
soil, which had previously heen left to
reptiles and vermin." He advises leaving the
Prescriptions of the drains and cesS-pools to the
bygenic specialist, and the details of the laun-
dry to the washerwonan."
The spoils system gets some hard knocks in
Mr. Morton's article. 1t is he says, "at war
economy, and is already doomed thing fighting
extinction" Andrew jackson is given his rich
deserts.
Trial by Jury of Things Supernatural" is an
account by James b, mayer; II aye 20 Gt the 9ge,er
The serials by Henry James and Margaret
Deland and Edwin Bunner add new chapters
to their stories. Thomas Bailey Aldrich has
poem.
THE frontispiece of Scribner'S Magazine for
April is an illustration Of an ode of Hor-
ace and is one of series to be done by the Eng
lish artist, ]. R. Weguelin. Another capital be-
ginning in this number is the first of series of
papers on THE Rights of the Citizen" "As
Householder" is the subject of this initial arti-
Gle, and as user of the streets,as traveller, as
the possessor of reputation, etc, will be taken
up in the months to come. This is happy
thought. Dawn and Dusk at Karnak,' is
fine poem by Charles Henry Lidess. "Tadmor
in the Wilderness" gets even farther into the
East, and is a most unconventional paper of
travel. ''In the Footprints of Charles Lamb"
is another illustrated article. Octave Tharet's
esUd.' end The Electric Railway Of To-
day'' is the subject of an interesting essay.
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THE boys and girls are taken into the wilds of
the darkest Africa" in the opening article
of this months 81. Nicholas. Mr.. E. ]. Glave,
one of Stanley's pioneer officers. begins to tell
the story of his six years along the Congo. The
article is illustrated. Mary Hallock Foote det
scribes "a Visit to Johns Ca mp" a glimpse
mining life, with illustrations by the author.
Through the Back Ages" has for its text 'To
Begin at the Beginning" and it does begin at
the bepipninp. indeed. 1t commences back in
that age of the worlds history whose record is
written in dim heiloglyphics in the works, and
which was ended before man came on the
story by Ernest Ingerso1l. This April number
is the end of the seventeenth volume Of 81.
Nicholas. It has a record OF which 1t may well
be proud. 1t set high standard long ago,
and has never lowered 1t.
THE Century for April contains two full.page
engravings by Timothy Cole, the engraver,
each subject being a Madonna and Child" by
Giovanni Bellini: namely, the famous altar
pieces in the Church of s. Zaccaria and the
church of the Frari, in Venice. The conduc-
tors of the Century claim that modern wood
engraving has never been put to such valuable
and permanent use as in this series of engrav-
ings made by Cole in the very presence of the
greatest pictures. The original relations of
tone. which are so sadly confused in the photo
graphs, especially in those of the Venetian
school, are retained in all the accuracy possible
to black and white. In the Nation, Prof.
Charles Eliot Norton, of Harvard University,
wrote of this series:
enQrayers on wood, who, during the last few
wears have carried their art to the highest excel
ience in reproducing the characteristic qualities
OF the work which they have had to copy, has sur
passed in exactness Of delineation, in refinement
and yigor of execution, and in sympathetic rem
dering of the subtlest features of the original
these Remarkable productions of Mr.. Cole, The
variety of the technical methods of which he
shows himself master has enabled him to repro
duce with equal success work as widely different
in IN olive and stvle as the Mosaic OF Ravenna and
the panel paintings of the Florentine artists of
the fourteenth century. No engravings hitherto
much Of the essential spirit as well of the man
ner Of painting of these works as this series of
MIR. Coles.
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