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NEW PUBLICATIONS.

has issued handsome pempnlet emitted
Cleopatra. 1t contains two poems, The
Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra and
1.-The Death of Cleopatra Both were
originally published in the San Francisco
ArgoRGut some years ago, and were widely
copied. The author received letters OF COM
mendation for her work from Tennyson,
Longfellow and. DR.. Holmes. The lady
who penned these poems, and which are
tropical with the passionate fervor and
breathe in nearly all the passages sensu-
Gus warmth, has brought upon herself
criticisms of q sharp character. Perhaps
il is pardonable, however, when 1t is re-
called that no poem concerning Cleopatra
could be true to tradition of the Egyptian
Queen and not be sensuous in some degree.
But if traditional history can pardon the
expression concerning the subject chosen,
and it is nothing short of the amorous
and suggestive, il cannot be said
that it excuses the author for choosing the
text. Was il necessary that she should
prove her poetic genius by describing erotic
scenes around which modesty draws the
veil of secresy ordinarily? We think not.
Confess her ability We must; acknowledge
the wealth of her imagery and the tropic
Iuzuriance of her language and the poetic
power of her pen we do; but commend her
poems to the modest we cannot. The po-
etc description OF the wiles of q lascivious
queen to win a warrior N Illicit conquest
is not a subjec: that any woman should de-
vote herself to. ]. c, j., the author of the
poems, is talented lady, descended from
family of historic prominence, and Boosting
of relationship to some of the finest and
best of national men and women. We
could wish her better fame than such au-
thorship, and more in keeping with her
illusuious ancestry.
The "Sanltarian" "a. n. Bell, N. D.,
Brooklyn, \. W for March in many re-
spects is very superior number, Besides
the important reviews reports and statis-
tics, these general papers appear; The
Brooklyn Health ExhibitiOn-Report of
the Special Committee on the Exhibits and
Awards" State Proposed Re-
organization of Local Boards of Health"
report of the Committee on Hygiene of the
Medical Society of the State of New York;
Sanitary Defects in the Public School
Buildings and the Public School System of
the City of New York. report OF the Com
mittee on Hygiene of the Medical Society of
the county of New York; Sanitation in
Spain" by Paul PlaneG; Publication of
the Air from Hot-air Furnaces" by Samuel
G. Dixon, ". D., Professor of Hygiene, Uni
versity of Pennsylvania; The Isolation of
Consumptives, by Paul H. kretzschmar,
NJ. D. The Constitutional Liability to
Disease" by N. H. Simons, NJ. D. Surgeon,
United States army: The Relation OF BAG
terra to Disease, Medical Bulletin; Dis
posal of House refuse" by Alfred Ludlow
Carroll, NJ. D.
The first paper describing Miss Bisland's
trip around the world, which was begun at
ST hours notice for THE Cosmopolitan
Magazine" appears in the April number of
The Cosmopolitan, illustrated from pilot
ographs and drawings by Robert Blum
Two famous nOvelists are amongst the con-
tributors TO this number-Thomas Nelson
Page, with the complete story of George
Washingtons Last Duel and Arthur
Sherburne Hardy in briefer sketch A
fairy story, The Enchanted Base. Ball"
by the actress, Sydney Cowell, is a most
charming conceit. A portrait of the En-
peror of Germany, by Y. Gribayedof,
forms the frontispiece. Eaton Hall is
illustrated and described by Pelham. Gin
ton, and Allan Marquand contributes the
article to College Series describing Prince
ton University. The first of Murat Hal
stead's Reviews of Important Current
Events" appears. Half a dozen other ar
ticles, fully illustrated make up the con-
tents of one of the most complete numbers
of The COSMOPOLITAN thus far issued.
The Popular Science Monthly" for
j.
these papers: Science in the High School,"
by Professor David Starr Jordan; Ethics
and Religion" by Professor Crawford How
ell Toy; Darwin on the Fuegians and
Patagonians; as Education Opposed to
Motherhood by Alice B Tweedy;
''On the Natural Inequality of Men"
by Professor T. H. Huxley; "Sloyd,"
by Frlmann B. Arngrimsson; The
Mysterious Music of Pascagoula," by
Charles E. Chidsey; The Indwelling
Spirits of Men, by Honorable Major A. B.
Z lis; " Northern Lights by Wilhelm
Stosz; Dragons, Fabled and Real" by NJ.
Maurice Maindron; 'Alchemists Gold"
by NJ. A. De Rochas; "A Lesson in Co.
Operation" BY Clarence n. Ousley; IN
telligence OF Squirrels" by DR.. T. Wesley
Mills; Sketch OF David Ri,tenhouse;h
And the usual notes, news and critical de-
partments.
Harper's Magazine" for April is su-
perDiy illustrated. The contents, in addi-
ton the regular departments, reviews,
poer~, Editors Study, Editors Easy Chair
and EDITORS Drawer, are The Merchant
of nice" by Andrew Lang Thomas
YOU :. NJ. D., F. R. S. by Rev. William
Henty Milburn; The Tragedy of Hump
back, by Mary G. Mcclellan; Great
American Industries" by r R Browker;
deacon Phebys Selfish Natnr," story,
by Annie Trumbull Slosson: Three IN
dian Campaigns, by General Wesley Mer-
rift, I s; Not Love, Not Wa sonnet,
by William Wadsw worth: in the Ha-
worth, a story, by Geraldine b. ner The
New York Maritime Exchange bv Rich
airy Wheatley; The Shadow OF \ Dream
a story, Part II, by William Dean How
ellis; out OF Sorrow, a poem, by Lydia
7. Robinson; American Literary Com |
edians,' by Henry Clay Lukens.
The Atlantic Monthly" for April !
{ Houghton, Mifilin d Co., Boston,, has !
these papers: Some Popular Objections
Morton The Tragic Muse by Henry !,
James Trial by Jury of Things Super |
natural, by James B. Thayer Belgium |
and the Belgians," by Albert Shaw; AT |
Sea, by James jeffrey Roche; Sidney I
(seriail by Margaret Deland; Road Horses" |
by H c. Merwin; The Begun Daughter" |
seTial), by Edwin Lassetter Bynner In /,
Westminster Abbey, by Thomas Bailey /;
Aldrich; Over the Teacups.' by Oliver |
Wendell Holmes; The North Shore |
Watch New York in Recent Fiction |
The Contributors Club, Books of the |
Month"
The April issue OF the Quarterly Jour
nal Of Economics, published by Harvard |
u 4aNS4Slils CoAldiGiS d tiCA6s Dl IIesIuelll |
Francis A. Walker on Protection and |
Protecuonism, in which arguments for |
ana against protection are temporarily dis |
cussed by Professor Taussig, OF Harvard, |
on the Silver Situation its History and |
It's Dangers - E. c. Conner, of Liverpool, |
Eng, on Ricardo and His Critics :" +. B. |
Hawley, of New York, on Profits and the |
Residual Theory :" y. Mathews, Jr, of !
Boston, or the Taxation of Mortgages in |
Thereare notes, also. and |
memoranda on the law against Socialists in |
Germany, on recent works on finance and |
political economy, and the usual Bibliog- !
raphy.
Sound English, a Language for the
Mold y Is rha titln Of en- oil hcni- L. |