St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-31
VIEWS OF THE REVIEWS.

The Arena, that refuge Of the army
of the rejected whose names have not
yet won that prominence which gives
TO their writings the commercial value
which the editors of the older reviews
rate above merit in deciding what shall
and what shall not find present fame
and sure Immortality in their pages,
comes for September laden, as usual,
with abundant evidence that the state
Her reviews have no monopoly of the
bright, the versatile, the philoSophic or
the utilitarian minds of the country.
The Arena might profit by the example
of the North American. which usually
accompanies the issue with a Sketchy
introduction to the writers of the arti-
Giles for the month, often a matter of
supererogatiOn with it, but a feature
which would be of value in the Arena.
From the critics angle the writer and
his personality counts for nothing in
but, humanity, we all want to know
something of the man or woman whose
thought we are following.
"The Newer Heresies' is DR.. Lori
mer's theme, and he approached them
with a jaunty confidence that they are
not to be dreaded, much less eXtirpated
with stake and faggot. Truth IS
TRUTH" he says, and it will survive all
the assaults of error. He finds ground
for his confidence in the inpOcuousneSs
of these hereSies in their admission of
the inspiration of the scripture, their
attack on dogma and creed and assent
to Christian doctrine and their inaSSiSt-
ance on maintaining the high ideal of
the Christian life. He takes no note of
that wider heresy which rejects both
the inspiration of the scriptures and all
the creed and dogma while it insists
upon lite on as high and pure plane
as is the.conscientious Christians.
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One skips without qualm Mr.. Mey-
erS' answers to some criticisms of the
Society for PSychical Research, in his
Harvest and LaborS in the Psychical
Field" to read the article by B. o.
Flower, FASHIONS Slaves" evidently
fruitage of the recent international
council of women. One gathers a
clearer cOnSept of the abject submission
of the female mind to the DEGREES of
fashion from the illustrations which
show the dresses which women found
qualification of pride and vanity in
wearing at different periods within the
memory of the middle-aged. The Young
lady of to-day will hardly believe that
her mother was ever such a guy as to
wear with cOmplacency the enormous
hoop skirts of fashion in the early six
ties, nor that ten years later she found
happiness In assuming the humps of de-
formity demanded by fashion and fur
niShed in the buStles and the Grecian
bend. The illustrations enforce the ar
gament which the writer makes for
dress reform on the lines of common
sense and healthfulneSS.
Carlos D. Martyr, D. D., discovers
"En-American Tendencies" which are
driving this country at chariot pace to
the demnitiOD bOwwOws. and can only
be checked by woman suffrage and by
making every office elective. The
thought that the remedy might be
worse than the disease does not seem to
have struck DR.. Martyr yet. By the
way. does not the doctor indulge very
un-American tendency in the orthOgra
ply of his name?
Kuma Oishi speculates on the eXtrin-
sic effect of the Japanese constitution
on the nations of Asia, and argues that
its effect will be similar to the influ-
ence on European nations of the devel-
Opment of constitutional government in
England. Mr. Oishi's likeness accom-
panies the article.
Prof. Boughton's "Unive rsity Exten-
SiOn' is not so much an argument for
the enlargement of the educational field
that has passed the frontier line of
demonstrations it is description of
the work. its methods and scope.
Mr. Raxter makes the Austrian SvS-
TEN of postal banking and saving the
ground work for urging its adoption in
this country, and finds in it solution
for the rigidity of our present system of
currency which causes financial string
ency during the moving of the crops and
an unhealthy Superabundance of money
at other time. The success Of the two
year trial of Austria warrants this coun-
try in adopting it, he thinks.
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Rabbi SCHNEIDER continues his discus
sion of the problem of immigration
treating in this number, of what he
terms inter-immigration. or the move
ment of people within the limits of the
same nation, movement which has
been immensely accelerated by the de-
velopment OF facilities for travel. Re-
lated to it is the movement to the city
from the country, which he regards as
resulting largely from the systemiza-
ton of production, the division of labor
rendering more easily Obtainable the
comforts of life. His conclusion that
agriculture is feeling the syndicate ten
dency, and that the small farmer must
go before the greater economies of the
expansive farming, is hardly born out
by the trial of bonanza farming in the