Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-29
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mortal instruction should be matter OF
direct or routine work. and how far a
matter of general influence only; how
far work should be done for mental
drill and how far for the acquisition OF
| facts. ~ The corresponding problem
of the proper education of girls; wheth-
er the schools for their high
er education, and the colleges
that admit both sexes, and the
"annexes" to universities have been
successful. Here, too, comes In the OLD
contention that women are not physlc-
ally equipped for severe training. t5)
Are our universities properly related to
present American life and conditions, or
are they TO too great a degree surviyals
| from obsolete conditions? As part OF
this same problem the work OF the
schools OF technology and OF industrial
schools comes up for consideration: DO
they do the work of real education?
These Fundamental problems are all dis
cussed in the September number OF the
Forum. Beginning with Volume AL.
the Forum will be considerably enlarged,
keeping pace with its increase Of pat
ronage.
The intellectual wealth of three con-
tinents is represented in the September
arena. The well known English essay
ist, Il. w. II. Meyer, of Cambridge, Eng
land, speaks for European thought in a
careful paper on psychical work. Kuma
Oishi, M. A., of Toxic, Japan, repre-
sents Asia in brilliant paper on the
Extrinsic Significance OF Constitutional
Government in Japan; while such able
thinkers as Rabbi Solomon SCHNEIDER,
Bev. Geo. c. Lorimer, Thos. B. Preston,
Sylvester Baxter, and the editor repre-
sent America. Mr.. Flowers paper on
Fashions Slaves" is illustrated by
three full-page photographers and over
score of smaller pictures, giving the
prevailing fashions during the past
generation. 1t is a strong appeal for
dress reform. He considers the sub
ect from artistic, hygienic, and ethical
points of view. The frontispiece OF
this issue is finely executed portrait OF
the distinguished Baptist divine, Rev.
Geo. c. Lorimer. A fine picture of
Kuma Oishi also mpanies his paper.
We are accustomed to associate the
name of Rudyard Kipling with stories
of Indian military life, bat in his nauti-
cal story, 1.-THE Disturber OF Traffic"
which appears in the September allan
tic, he has struck an entirely new vein.
The story is related by an English
lighthouse keeper, who tells the ex-
perience OF another lighthouse keeper
in q little-known part of the world,
who, half-maddened by solitude and
certain curious optical delusion con-
nected with the tides flowing by his
light, became to an alarming
extent ''disturber Of traffic"
Mr.. Kipling has never done
ANYTHING Of the same kind before, and
has never been more vivid and astOund-
ing than in the present story. Another
short story, IAN Innocent Life" is
contributed by Lille 3. Chace Wyman,
whose Poverty Grass" is remembered
as collection OF powerful short stories
on social questions. Mr.. Stockton's
House of Martha" is continued by a
long installment, and Mary Hartwell
Catherwood gives us four clever chap
tiers of 'The Lady OF Fort st. John"
Thus fiction is quite fully represented
in this summer issue of the Atlantic.
Lieutenant Rdgely Hunt, in his arti-
Gle on ''The Steamship Lines OF the
World" (the last of the interesting
series on Ocean Steamships in the Sep
TENDER Scribner'S, gives the following
information about trip around the
world entirely by water. 1.-The traveller
from New York has been gone from
start to finish, by the ocean highways
to Europe, India, China, San Francisco,
South America, and back to New YORK,
nearly 200 days; has steamed over about
40, 900 miles of water, and has spent
81, 900. He has learned that there are
other lands and other peoples than his
own worthy his admiration and study.
Let him take year and $1,000 for this
rounding the world, and he will be bet
ter satisfied and better informed, and
appreciate more fully that going to sea
clears a msn's head Of much nonsense
Of his wigwam.
The numerous exciting events in the
yachting world, and the keen popular
interest shown this season in the noble
sport, make the paper on "New York
Yachts and Yachtsmen," in Frank Les
lies Popular Monthly for September,
peculiarly interesting and timely. The
| Illustrations include some spirited views
of the wonderful new Herreschoff yacht
Gloriana, and fine portrait Of the late
Edward Burgess, the lamented designer
of the Queens Cup defenders, etc. This
number of the magazine also contains
illustrated articles upon the Mare Island
Navy Yard, by Ensign j. M. Ellicott;
Under Four Flags" Told Cahokia), by
NJ. c. Williams; Through Central Asia
in War Time" by David Ker; 1.-THE
Short and Simple Annals of the Poor"
by d. V. S. Eyres; "Feathered Gems"
(Humming Birds), byNelly Hart Wood
worth; the conclusion Of Scott Campbell's
serial, John Maggs, Barbarian" ETC.;
together with numerous short stories,
sketches, literary and scientific micel-
lany, and poems.
The September number Of the North
american Reuiel0 opens with brilliant
reply to Goodwin Smiths paper, entitled
'New Light on the Jewish Question,
which appeared in the ReuielC for Au-
gust. The author of Goodwin Smith
and the Jews" is Isaac Besht Bendavid,
who shows himself to be man OF great
learning and ability, as well as a skilled
controversialist. An article which can
not fail to attract widespread attention
is ga Plea for Railroad Consolidation,
by c. P. Huntington, the we'll
known financier and president Of the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
Mr.. Huntington believes that it would
be good thing all around If all the rail-
roads of the country were consolidated
under one control, and the arguments
with which he supports his position are
full of force. Mrs. Mary A. Livermore,
who has a wide reputation as lecturer
and preacher, writes with enthusiasm
on the subject of cooperative Woman
hood in the State" showing how much