Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-02-04

Miss Mylene In her recent work Of ad-
vice TO young authors says that Mr..
Herbert N. Sylvester, the Maine author,
xhoge book Of Prose Pastorals" Ia very
clever In = few Of its touches, has been
spoken Of by some Of our leading critics
as the Richard Jefiries Of New England 3"
BY what critics." pray: Surely not by
thoae who ever read d dozen pages Of
Homestead Highway" in comparison
with single sentence Of that unap
proachahle essay by the lamented
Tefries. The Pageant Of Summer or
that other charming word picture,
What is the Color Of Dandellon?"
The Census Bureau has Just Issued a
bulletin giving the details as TO the
mortgage Indebtedness in the states Of
Alabama, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas and
Tennessee. From this it appears that
during the ten years from 1850 to 1889
inclusive, the mortgage business tran
sacted In those states represented ,914,-
go mortgages to secure debt Of 81 000,-
COZ OF on lJ7 33s 1871 acres and $50. $50
lots. There was at the time the census
was taken an existing mortgage debt Of
about 5000, 900 eco, subject to an annual
interest charge Of about So 800, 900.
This is undoubtedly considerably less at
the present time, as with the returns
from the heavy hsrvests the farmers
have taken up great many such obi
cations.
Estimating five persons to each family,
Census Bureau calculations demonstrate
that the federal debt OF the United States
amounts to Ssh per family. ON a
similar basis of calculation the debt Of
Great Britain is 1897 go per family; of
Austro- Hungary, 1854 90 and Of France,
sJSl.75. Germany has no statistics from
which to figure out accurately her debt
per family, but the Indebtedness is esti-
mated at $500. 1t is one OF the notable
features of the financial stability OF this
nation that the national debt per family
L. so low, and 1t is the subject of COM
ment that while the ratio of national
debt to families has decreased steadily
the national wealth has been growing
faster than that of any nation on the
globe, and our capital and resources have
improved more rapidly than those OF any
other nation.
The Boston firm of Houghton, aiilin
4 Co, announce that they will com
mence the publication Of a new quarter
" review to BE- called he New World"
on the first Of March next, which will
specially devoted to religion ethics and
theology. II will be under the charge
of an editorial committee consisting of
Professors Charles Carroll Everett and
Crawford Howell Toy OF Harvard; Rev.
Orelo Cone, u. D., president of Buchtel
College, and Rev Nicholas Paine Gilman
managing editor. The new periodical
will have 200 pages in each issue, one
quarter part Of which will be given to
the careful review of important books in
its field. As the names of the committee
indicate, the new review will endeavor
to discuss religion, ethics, and theology
from the standpoint of liberal thought;
uncommitted to any denomination, it
will enlist the support of scientific
scholars and progressive thinkers, at
home and abroad in the thorough treat
ment Of the great problems OF modern
life and thought in religion, ethics, and
theology. interpreting these three
terms in broad sense, the conductors
of the new review hope to fill an evident
void IN periodical literature by issuiug a
liberal religious quarterly OF the first
order.