Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-01-15

OF Column J0ileRe, new ioih, 10 w
ginning its third year. On the other
hand. the Academy" an educational
journal OF singularly high merit, sus.
pended publication last summer ana
:, School and College" edited by X. q. |
IULlSG, Principal of Schools IN Ne"
Bedford. Mass, chose 10 live only Ter |
the twelve months Of 1892, and "Iho |
School Review inheriting the good |
will of the latter, may be SAID 10 oe us
legitimate successor. :.
Its prospectus embraces four as
tipctive features-l, A monthly cont
look Article" 2, Original articles on
educational interests; 3, Reviews OF
current educational literature 4, sum
maries of important articles IN foreign
educational periodicals. The first tJanu'
sry) No. contains an article by Proies-
sor ALBERT BUSHNELL HART, OF har-
ward. OH "The Teacher as Froies-
sional Expert, and two suggestive mono
graphs on the study of English, once
more attracting so much attention
through the discussion OF the recent
Harvard reports on the subject. . FIRST
Year English in the High School, by };
G.. WRIGHT. OF Worcester. Mass, and
Regents Diplomas in English, Dy
Professor j. MORGAN HART, OF Cornell
A second magazine whose first No.
has lust appeared is 1.-The journal oil
Political Economy for December, 1892.
Volume l., No. /, a quarterly lournal
published 10y the University OF Chicago
under the editOrship of j. LAURENCE
LAUoHLlY, the chief professor in that
department. The advance IN the eco
monte instruction in the United States
within the last fifteen years, since our
centennial year Of 1876, is a most won
derful phenomenon. 1t is perhaps to DO
matched alone by tho increased interest
in the rigid study Of the sciences and OF
American history within the same period.
A significant. and one in some respects
for us in the South sad, reflection Is that
this advance has been especially marked
IN northern institutions. Before the
war it was the College Of William and
| Mary and tho South Carolina College
/ that easily led in these departments. and
| Thomas JEFFERSON hoped IN founding
the University Of Virginia distinctly 20
affect economic studies III his State ana
section. and THOMAS COOPER was ac-
cordingly his first choice for 3 professor.
so important did his mind and interests
regard this subject. 1t was, too, the
! Charlestonian De Bows "lndusirial
Review that for quarter OF q cen
| turv was the leading magazine oil us
kind in all America. But the tables arc
now reversed.
This makes the fo,Uth quarterly jour
nal devoted exclusively to political and
economical considerations that IS pub
lshed by faculties Of American instltu-
tions, and while rejoicing IN this great
fecundity and widespread interest, let
rs hope, too, that the scholarship, III
terest, and means of the South will not
much longer lag too far behind. What
is perhaps the sblest of these journals,
the " Political Science Quarterly, 20 edited
10y the University Faculty Of Political
Science Of Columbia College. New York.
has lust closed its seventh volume. The
Harvard University Faculty IN Political
Science edit since 1896 the Quarterly
Journal Of Economics" The New
Highlander and Yale Review " was con-
verted within the past summer into
"The Yale Review, a quarterly econom-
ical periodical under the direction OF the
Yale Faculty in this department. And
now Just before the year closes comes
the new University of Chicago, 30 ex-
tensively advertised, with its contrlbu-
ton to the same subject by its Depart
ment of Political Economy" Perhaps
first Of all ought to have been mentioned
the Johns Hopkins University Studies
in Historical aud Political Science,
which have now entered upon their
eleventh year. Besides the Hopkins
and Harvard and Yale and Colum bla
and Chicago, the University OF Michigan,
Cornell, Brown, the University Of Penn
sylvania-and since Professor Ely has left
Baltimore for the West-the University
Of Wisconsin deserve special tribute Tor
their work along these llnGs. 1t will be
seen how necessary 1t Is for cacn depart
ment and every full chair IN our greatest
universities 10 have a special organ Oi
communication with the world. ON the
other hand, the existence of these Jour
nails afford an impulse 10 investigation
and give medium of publication which
otherwise the student and scholar and
investigator might long for IN vain.
The first No. Of the present work lie
fore Us suggests every evidence OF both
keeping up to the already high standard,
set by other authority, and IN turn eX
ercising healthful and powerful In
iluence Of its own. The opening article j.
review of the "Study OF Political
Economy in the United states, reveal
! ing the former divisions of economist.
into two opposing camps and the IN
doubted influence of HENRY GEORGE ~
awakening and stimulating interest 10
an extent not to be assigned to any Other
writer in this country. Tho author eX
. plains the general lack Of interest IN
economical subjects prior 10 the war t.
the absorption in purely political ques
tlons, chiefly those Of slavery, while on
OF the war came tho actual creation of q
. popular interest in economic anC
financial studies, which Judgment, how
ever, does not strictly apply to the
South, as We have above lntimatej
This article is accompanied with al
, appendix contrasting the courses o
study in political economy in the col
loges in the United States for the year
, 1876 and 1892.
Other articles are Recent CONNER
cial Policy Of France" by EMILE LIZ
VA sEUR, author of LA Population
Franchise, discussion OF the French
, tariff regime; Rodhertuss Socialism,
, by President f. BENJAAuS ANDREWS, o
, Brown University, explaining the social
, istic tenets of KARL RoDBERTUs lSOj
1870, the great German contemporar,
/ OF KARL MARX, and a notable article
, with tables and diagrams on "The frc
of Wheat Since 1861" which was tn
year Of the highest point reached by tn
annual average price. Notes, book re
views, and appendices close the No.
which consists Of 1872 pages.
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