New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-06-15
Observation-Disclosures

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
All those who are engaged in experiments with
living machines are confident that the proo.em WHICH
has bafred human ingenuity so long Is now on the
ava NJ solution So near does success seem that they
none 10 greet 1t with triumph before the END OF 'he
r,neteenth century In the light of these antcipa-
lions George E. Warlng, jr, has done Timely 'hihS
An translating from the Dutch an essay by D. u
w Fijnje Van Saverda. to which he has given tne
title aerial Navigation 3D. Appleton Coz Inc
author was formerly Administrator Of Public WORKS
q, the Netherlands. and Advisory Councillor LOT
uvdrotechnic and Railway Affairs. He is, there
fore a practical man. Ii is a noteworthy iac' 'ha'
Of late years mere enthusiasts have given pace 10
men OF high proficiency in engineering anu my
chanics when Il comes to inventions TOT haNsd'''s
the air The crudlties Of Darius Green ana MS nns
machine are so far in the past that they nave oeeh
forgotten This is due TO the great advance Vha'
nas baen made in the study Of meteorological phe-
nomena and conditions that must ai1ec' 'he "o'e
ments OF an air-ship. to wonderful improvements -
motors and 10 the study of the manner III W."
birds fly. The author points out tha' me l-
tower has rendered possible the discovery oi az
mospheric conditions hitherto unknown. r"o'os
ranbv has enabled observers 70 study the motions o
.,rds with a ninuteness which was not dreamed Oh
n few years ago. With such means data were w
tanned for attacking the problem scenthcaIy.
lilo Mr. Fiinle
,rrefutable that the flying machine must be heavier
.ban the displaced air &c plus lourd que air IN
order to be manageable. he estimates highly us
utility in past Investigations lie JOCKS upon -Houdi
who first conceived this principle. as most ei'iet
pioneer In preparing the way for truly sVS'ema'lc
method of investigation After he has reviewed mo
history Of aeronautics from Montgofer onward nov"
avar he comes to n conclusion which Is really only
. c,aarer statement Of Nodars anticipauons. lie
sees what Nodar could not perhaps ANTICIPATE 'ia'
for transit through the air. the balloon must give
place TO a machine in which the gas-oas cuts "o
figure whatever While he enlarSes upon me USES
esnecialv In military affairs already found for the
balloon he agrees that the coming 'hyer VIII DE
suDported by an aeroplane. and impelled by screws
driven by motor. That is to say, from pureE
historical discussion Of the subject he mas arrNeu
nj conclusions reached by those VINO are in"hi"s
practical experiments. He restricts MS magma
t,on 10 depicting comparatively small achievements
IN the near future The flying machines VIII De ohiy
IKE the skifs and small boats of the first navigation
NJ wafer But they will be abe to render ValuaOe
service in meteorological, military ana various o'e
fields as for postal work, etc. Al the 'lthe 'He
original pamphlet written In lS92, the au'hor
xvas not familiar with the Investigations of professor
& p Langley OF Washington. on reading Professor
Yang,ev's report he wrote second pamphlet IN
which he expressed sanguine hopes than before
of an early solution Of the problem lie pointed out
that practically advance was made AFTER the HrSt
scientihc investigation began only in the second nail
~ the nresent century, and the most important OF
those were the latest. Success. he concludes may
exert a powerful influence on social CONDITIONS Oh
which We can form no adequate idea Inc
translator has given only portions or the second
namoblet He adds chapter on Professor Langeys
experiments drawn from the Professors own re-
,,,rts extracts from an article by John P. Holland
ON a practical air-ship. and brief analysis OF
paper by Professor Langley on the soaring OF Orus
and the possibility of this movement being irni-
tated by a machine. The volume contains several
illustrations.
Professor w II Carruth OF the University of
Kansas has edited for Henry Holt q CO. Schn'er
so-called trilogy ''Walienstein' for the use OF
students The three plays are given In the text
of the first edition reprinted by Goedeke with d
few of the enendations made by joachim Meyer
In On elaborate introduction Professor Carruth re-
views the history Of the Thirty Years War; the
character of the real Wallenstein. the hDerues
taken by the poet with his material. ana especially
with the personages who figured in his drama: the
long period Of meditation and labor required Tor
the poem and he explains its significance ana the
pecuaries of its metrica form. His opinion is that
Schiller's blank bears we'll the test OF com
parison with Shakespeare. and that In the series
of the German poets later dramas beginning with
the Wallensten trogy and ending with W'ihehn
Tell" the world has the only series OF historical
plays which be compared TO those or snakes
"A
notes and a brief commentary on the text COM
plete a book which is convenient for other readers
besides college students. for example. those IN
terested IL. Coeridge's translation Of these plays
of Schiller. The volume is illustrated with por-
traits map and fac-simile Of the pledge or
Brewers" signed by Waensteins supporters
which figures in every discussion as 70 whether or
not he guilty Of treason.
Ethics of Citizenship" Macmillan e. Coz, by
Professor John MacCunn, of University College.
Liverpool, is a study of the aspects Of democracy
in England. The author has many misSivings for
the future, especially when he thinks Of the Ma
tcrity, with a capital NJ. in which the individual
citizen is in danger of losing his selfreiant inde-
pendence Of conviction and judgment. But, on the
whole, he believes in the worth and possibilities
of men, and he thinks that Democratic development
has already gone far enough to show that the old
fears OF the classes" mistake. II one
could only be alive two centuries hence TO see how
all the writing Of the present on society and poll
tics will look. he would probably smile to how
wide of the mark most of 1t has 1t is a
blessed fact for human nature that perils which
seem most frightful in prophecy apt to vanish
in actual experience.