Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-10

property of all ages find life dull and are
tempted to take their pleasure to their own in
jury, or by the sacrifice oil the best
in others. Those whose eyes or
ears are untaught to accept the best In
art or music are apt to seek beauty in sensa-
tlonalism or Joy in excitement, and thus they
become incapable of the gen,ler pleasures
which create and foster home life; and it is
those who are ignorant OF science and Its i'm
mutable laws whose lives snner, wnose neaitn
sacrificed to the great loss OF the nation. All
alike want the knowledge which in any form
transmutes existence into life.
Good words; true for the East End of Lon
don and .or all the ends OF the earth. Add
now the spiritual uplifting which religion
brings and you have it all. Booth and
Besantl What sloughs of despond may they
not drain and pave Cike Booth and Flinn)
into solid highwaysl
There is good deal about "Darkest En-
gland in the Reuieu of Reuieacs for De-
cember. Indeed, there is good deal about
everything under the shining sun in this
extraordinary magazine, in every number of
II. Here is an account of the progress of
the Salvation Army scheme, with the sub
scription list to date. And a full
account of Prof. Koch's discovery, in
Guiding the discoverer's own ACCOUNT,
with pictures of the doctor, and his cotem-
poraries whose names are associated with
his, and even of the bacillus against which
these physicians are fighting. The Parnell
trouble the Barring Brothers money mat
ters. the years caricatures in reduced fac
simile, and reviews and comments upon the
leading articles of all the magazines of
Europe, Asia, Africa, America and Austria
liza.
Mr.. Stead, who edits this review, and who
appears to write the whole of it, is the most
wide-awake man who breathes this nine
teenth century air. He is "up" to every
thing. Everybody knows how he exposed
the rascalities of English ''aristocracy" in
the Pail Mall Gazette. Presently he went
to Russia, and came back to write the clear
est statement that has been made about
the mediavalisms of that backward region
-"The Truth About Russia" Then he
went down to Italy to interview the Pope,
and wrote "The Pope and the New Era"
Last summer, he visited Oberammergan, and
finding that there was no good up
to-date libretto of the play, he
prepared one, the very best there is. And
here is the Reuieac Of Reuie,cs. which has an
account of everything that happens on the
planet. New thinking, new books, new in
ventions and discoveries, new movements in
the life of the race-here is the graphic,
condensed, impartial chronicle of them.
Mr.. Stead is the friend to whom General
Booth referred in the preface 20 Darkest
England, when he says:
have also to acknowledge valuable literary
help from friend of the poor who, though not
in any way connected with the Salvation Army,
has the deepest sympathies with its aims, and
is to large extent IN harmony with its prin-
clples. Without such assistance, 1 should
probably have found it-overwhelmed as al
ready am with the affairs of a worldwide en-
terprise-extremely difficult. if not impossible.
to have presented these proposals for which
am alone responsible, in SO complete form, at
any rate at this time.
The Reuiep of ReUieaos is published in
this country by the Critic Company. Q.
In the Popular Science Monthly for JAN
uary, DR.. Andrew d. White batters down
the Tower of Babel; NJ. de Quatrefages
writes of the peopling of America; w. II.
Larrabee considers the Intelligence of
Cats"
Far and Near is a capital paper, pub
lished monthly, meant for Working Girls
Clubs, admirably edited, full OF suggestions.
Augustus Hoppin writes on "The Art of
Cultivated Observation" Lucy Larcon has
poem, and Grace DEMO Litchfeld
story; besides the practical working matter
of the number.
In lne January OF. NechOtQS. unOer the
title, "A Great Industrial School," an ac-
count is given of the methods and accom-
plishments of the Prett Institute of Brook
lyn, the largest industrial school in the
world; Charles Dudley Warner has good,
sensible, helpful "Talk About Reading;"
and of course there are pictures and pict-
ures, and host of other delightful enter
tainments for young readers.
Finally, in Lippincott's for January, ap-
pears 'The Light That Failed" A picture
of Rudyard Kipling serves for introduction
we'll done; strong face, eyes looking out
keenly from behind glasses; good work
promised in every line; as attractive as the
stories. One charm of Kipling's work is its
fresh background. The action of this story
in Egypt for some chapters, with the e1-
pedition which Is marching to the relief of
Gordon. And the descriptions are marvel
ously done-strong, with self-reliant hand;
few lines, but these firm, telling, and in the
right places, like CARLYLE. A capital story,
even in the estimation of The CRITIC.
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