New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-01

The volume on dynamic Sociology" by Professor
Lester +. Ward. OF Washington. has been considered
30 dangerous TO society by the Russian censors that
they have ordered the whole Of Russian edition OF 1t
10 be promptly DESTROYED. "The Baltimore Amer-
cam saws that year or Professor Ward had
received from Russian writer request ito De al
lowed 10 translate the work into his own tongue Ter
mission was at once granted, and since that ume ITO
fessor Ward has heard nothing from the work. until the
news Just received The publisher soldatenKoo' had
published 200 volumes of the first edition OF the hrst
volume and had the manuscript OF the secoho Voiune
His entire loss will be over 5000 r0ubles ot course
he will not attempt publish the second volume, ana
II is more than likely that the manuscript VIII DC
seized and destroyed.
"There was no direct allusion whatever TO Russia
On the entire work and BY an examination of the in
dex IL was found that the only use OF the WORD hhst
was in the sense Of synonyme for the ldeaists OF
nbosonhers who believe that there is no external ex
isence.
~Tbe last chapter Of the work. Professor Ward
thinks may have been largely responsible Tor the
,o,ct,on ~ the translation. This chapter advocated
universal educaton-he education OF every MEMBER Oh
a community This. of itself, it is thought by tho'o
oryarsant with Russian affairs. would have been
snfcient 10 have caused the dspeasure Of the Rus
sian authorities
DR.. Holmes is said to be writing two memors-one
being that of great surgeon.
In n paper on the rarity Of hereditary poets Tho
london specator" says 1t is very remarkable IN re-
Iaon TO the Wordsworths at least that while there Is
no trace OF the Transmission OF spark OF the poets
higher faculty. to descendants, the serious and didactc
impulse which sometimes eXats and more often Injuries
his poetry was transmitted to his descendants In
fact nothing seems clearer than that the ddactic att
tde NJ mind is very frequently inherited and inherited
in a very emphatic form. The Edgeworths, the
Wordsworths the Stanleys, the Wllber1orces' anu
most of all, the Arnolds show us how singular mas
been the reproduction of the didactc attitude OF hu
from father 10 son and this too, even in cases where
&C In that NJ Matthew Arnold there hardly any
thing which the father believed that the son also be-
lieved for him TO teach, though the teachng posture
of mind and the energy which teachlhg heeus' "ere
reproduced with strange eXactness. the whole char
acter of the lessons taught being utterly oihelen'
D,vers Wash,pg ton characters will appear IN Mr.
Melville Pbillps's promised political novel, The Wife
of Senator Bunceo The story Will first appear as
serial.
A clergyman happened to pick up for twopence at
an English bookstal the other day an old book IN
which he found lying this characteristic letter written
by Carlyle: ,o.o
Very WE'LL Be "diigent in business fervent III
spirit therefore, and let me have credit oil you as
pupil f fi an actoHs series Of manfu faithful
ertia1s land of modest, SILENT steadfast enduances
witbaI1 which make up wOrhily mans life here below
With many good wishes and friendly regards remain
always yours truly, l. OAhL lAG'
Old Yale men for whom the name OF " Joe Iwluchen
continues M many happy, hearty and wholesome MEM
cries will be glad TO hear that the keV. Joseph
Twitcbell has been writing book on John winthrop
First Governor of the Massachusetts, Colony II Is 10
he The first of the autumn publications IN Doud "
Mead,s American series. The otlcr volumes INCLUDE
Professor Thurston's Robert Fulton" Dr. ueorge L.
WALKERS "Thomas Hooker; "Wlam White" tChap-
,air ~ the Continental Congress- bishop Of Penn
svlvania etcl by the Rev. julius II. Ward Win all
introduction by the Rev. Henry c. Potter jean
Baptiste Lemone' founder of New-Oreans by Grace
King: "Father Junipero Sierra and the FRANCISCAN
Missions in California" by John Culinary shea; Cot
ton Mather" by Professor Barret WENDELL OF har'aiu
Iniyer iy Sir william johnson ard the six Nations
hv william Elliot (iriis; samuel Houston and the
~. Henry