Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-02-06
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The opening article in the North Ameri-
can Review for February is a review of the
Gladstone Elaine controversy, by Hon.
Roger q. Mills; followed b. Italy and the
Pope by Gail Hamilton. Other articles are :
Electric Lighting aud Public Safety, by Sir
VIM Thompson; Newspapers Here and
Abroad, BY E. l.. Godkin, editor of tle
n. Y Post; The Doctrine of State Rights
by j ferson Davis-,he Ms. of which was
in the han IL of the Review previous to Mr.
Davis desth--British Capital and Ameri-
can Industries by Erastus Wiman, The
American Bishop of odsy, by Rev. Ju-
Illus II. Ward, and A New View of Shelley
by ouids. New York: No. 3. East
Fourteenth St. % 90 per year.
Four articles out of the ten which make
up the February Forum, are sufficient to
give high distinction TO a magazine of the
elevated character which the Forum ENJOYS
yet the remaining six should not be left
unread. The ones to which we have called
attention are Americas Fourth Century
by Gen. Francis A. Walker: Problems of
American Archaeology, by Prof John W b.
Powell of the L. $. Geological Survey
Moral Aspects of College Life, by Presi-
dent c. X. Adams of Cornell University,
and A Political Paradox, by Leonard Wool
sey Baron. Gen. Walker has had much
to do with the management of great in
dustrial expositions and points out in what
a great worlds fpir should consist. Mai
Powell is a firm believer in the idea that
Americas prehistoric remains, 90 msgnif
cent in extent, are more deserving of q
thorough and scientific investigation than
the smaller fields of similar remains in the
Old World. DR.. Adams says q good word
for the moral effect Of athletic sports
We think few will agree with Mr.. Bacon
in his stating of the political paradox at
least few Republicans, Taken altogether
the Forum for February is solid and read
able. New York The Forum Company :;
253 Fifth Avenue: s. 90 per year.
The leading articles in the Februsry
number of The Home Maker are the sec
ond ins,sIlment of Mrs General Clusters
brilliant serial 40 the Victor belong the
Spells, and letter by Lucy Stone on the
question Should Women voteY" There
are also contributions by the editors, and
by Francis A. Humphrey, Margaret E
Ssngster. DR.. Felix L. Oswald, Nathan
Haskell Dole aud others. New York /:
No. 10 West 22i Street. Price 50 90 per
year
The February Eclectic opens its excellent
list of contents with a sensible paper by
Grant Allen on Practical Religion
which, while somewhat heterodox, is highly
suggestive. PAsteur conclude. his disser-
tstion on Rabies and Mrs. Jeuue con-
tributes an article on the woman question,
In answer TO that by Lady Gaskell in the
preceding number Robert Browning is
ably discussed in short papers from the
Saturday Review aud Spectator. Sir
William Dawson explains the question of
the Deluge, controverting the Agnostic
views With great ability. The beginnings of
reform in Persia are described BY E. F. G.
Law, highly competent authority. Edward
Clodd has an able paper on The Origin of
Death" which will be read with much in
terest. The retrospect of SANKEY'S expe-
dItion 10 BY = we'll known geographical
authority. J. Scott Kettle. Prof. Huxley
does his great reputation justice in the
paper, The Natural Inequality of MAJ
Swineburne has . series of sonnets on
Browning, the recently dead poet. and an
excellent article by DR.. Charles Mackay,
Who died . short time since, is entitled
The Aseertainment of English" Sew
eral able minor articles, stories, and poems
complete 4 very readable and entertaining
number. New York: E. X. Pelton, rs
Bond St, terms Is 90 per year,