Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-02-12
r1p p1cuMOND DIsPATCH-SUNDAY, FEBRUARY II, 1893.

scent" BY DR.. James B. McCaw; "Vir.
gina Threads for the Future Historian.
by Edward ID. Neil "Coats-of-Arms IN
Virginia" by tho editor; "Orignal
Letters and Historical Notes"
IL this constant publication OF such
records be continued for several years a
vast amount of most valuable material
will be collected and made available TO
the more general reader and investi-
gator. 1t is An enterprise deserving of
the warmest encouragement and recOgnl-
ton.
The second No. of the Scwancc Re-
uiew, the new literary critical
and quarterly journal, published I'M
der the auspices Of the faculty
of tho University OF the South. at
Sewanee, Tenn, seems fully mp 10 It's
first instalment noticed few weeks
ago in the columns Of tho DIsPATcH-
both in the character and the scope OF
the articles. literary article leads on
again on the Rev. Charles Wolfe, tho
author OF 1.-THE Burial OF Sir John
Moore" The writer, who does not sign
his name, hopes that in recalling atten.
ton to the well-nigh forgotten details OF
Wolie's career, he will not be consider
cd as entering upon work OF su-
pererogation. We are thankful at
having tho opportunity to form
newer and more accurate
acquaintance with this alm0st-forgotten
author and his merits. Other of the ar
ticles are signed. a., ono on " Eng
Iish Philology and English Literature N
American Universities" by President
Henry +. Shepherd, of Charleston Col.
lcge; Pierre dc Rousard, Prince OF
Poets" by Professor b. ". Wells. OF
Sewanee e." Evolution Of Amendment
inthe Constitution OF the Unitod States,
by William Writ Howe, and Neo-
Pantheism and the Catholic Faith,
by John j. Elmendorf Of he Western
Theological Seminary, Chicago Two
other articles, unsigned. complete the
formal table of contents "Ihe Death
Struggles of Colonial Piracy" con
tinuation apparently OF related essay
in the first No, ami review OF the
latest edition of Goodwin's Greek Gram
mar. This excellent No. OF rs pages
closes with several shorter miscellaneous
reviews and certain minor notices.
Some P0hGcai Writings JY Il. Dlrc-
rcaur Doylc, Bachelor of lar of the
JHjrcrsjtg u virginia amt Nembcr
for Virginia of the National COM
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in approaching the full force of those
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the Chicago platform Of 1872.
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A review in The Ucekly R,ri0c Of
Bent's the " RUiRCd cities Of NashOn1-
iaud" argues strongly the identification
OF the site of the Great ZimbabIye find
with ancient OPhir.
Charles Leonard Moore, in an artc'o
in February FCrau thus defines tho
mission OF poetry D." 1t is the art which
fills our minds with the happicst and
loftiest images AMI impressions, 1t is the
art which makes us more contentei
within ourselves and more agreeable to
those about Us. "
LIghtnlngrod agents can no longer
claim Benjamin Franklin as their patron
saint. Ho was not tho first man 10
- catch tho lightning by tho tail. The
of Joseph J. Kral show
that the inventor Of the lightning-rod
was Bohemian named Prokop Diyis,
who was born in 1896. II Franklin ever
heard Of him he did not, in this particu-
lar instance, evidence belief IN his
own maxim, that honesty Is the bes.
pollCy