The Dickinson press., 1893-12-02
BOSTON'S GREAT REVIEW.
A Backward and Forward Glance-The
Arena Publishing Co.

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The November Arena, which lies
before us, is strong, able and invig-
Grating. 1t closes the eighth volume
of this review, whose career has been
SO remarkable, and whose influence
has grown to be Il potent force in our
country. The superb courage, the
catholicity of spirit and the cordiality
with which it has received the adj
vance guard anon. the worlds think
ers finds no parallel in the history ot
magazine literature. While employ
ing talent fully us learned and schol.
arly us that represented in any other
great review, it has as IL rule avoided
discussions of problems not vital in
character, while its influence has al
ways been thrown against class priv
ileses. entrenched injustice aud out
grown ideas. \ glance over the ill.,
deX for the past year rcvealsa c"t+rir
of contributors which it would Ne
difficult to surpass in any review pub
lished in the English-speaking
tongue.
Among those who have written for
its pages during the past twelve
months are such leaders of thought
and eminent scholars us Rev. NJ. j.
Savage, Rabbi solomon Schindlpr. Sir
Edwin Arnold. Bishop j. l.. Si'auld-
ing, Rev. Lyman Abbott. Prof. w. J.
Rolte. Helen Campbell, ALFRED Rus
sell Wallace. ID. c. H.. :r. J. +. Fur
nivAll, Prof. David Swing. lIamlin
Garland, Rev G.)r," G. Lorin-r, ".
ID. McCrarken, \. NJ. the MarquiSr
If Lorne, Prof. j r. Buchanan. Rev.
John w. Chadwick, O. Il. Frothing.
nam, Henry George. President J. NJ.
Coulter of Indiana University, Rev.
Marion u. Shutter, ID. d., United
States Senator W. NJ. Stewart, Prof
n. S. Shaler, Edmund Gosse. Prof.
Orello Cone, ID. d., Louise Chandler
Moulton, Gerald Massey. Ignatius
Donnelly, Prof. A. E. Dolbear, Ed
mund G. Steadman, the late Richard
Proctor Henry Irving. Henry Wood,
Napoleon Nye, Louise Frechette, etc.
The announ cements for next year
..re even more inviting, if possible,
than those made before. Among the
great features of the Arena for 1894
will be series of six papers on the
Ascent of Life" by Stinson Jarvis
They will take up the evolution the.
ory where Darwin dropped it, and
proceed in Il search for the soul of
man in a strictly scientific manner.
The editor of tho Arena predicts that
this work will create pronounced
sensation, and will be Il contribution
of great value to the modern critical
literature. Another brilliant feature
of the Arena for 1894 will he a series
"f papers setting forth the 'Aims and
Objects of the Higher Criticism" by
leading orthodox scholars of Europe
and America who stand with Prof.
Briggs. Th" opening paper will ap-
pear in the December Arena.
Vital political, economic and social
problems will appear in the following
series. embracing discussions by the
most able and live thinkers of the
age; l. Short talks on the Ian
Question, embracing twelve short pa
pers on this great problem by leading
specialists. .. Ideal Republican
Measures, embracing II series of pat
pers on the Initiative, Referendum
and proportional Representation. 8.
The Nervous and Arterial Systems of
the State, a ser es of papels by Rabbi
solomon SCHNEIDER and other leading
thinkers on governmental control of
railways. 4. The present aspect Of
the money question, the light of Eu-
ropean and American history, a
number of brilliant papers by stu
dents of finance. 5. The Slums of
Our Great Cities, and how to abolish
| them