St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-03
WITH SEPTEMBER REVIEWS.

FORUM Inc Forum opens It's Sep.
TENDER number with the address OF
President Cooley to the National Bar
association, which has been given in
part In the news columns of the press,
and that part especially which
treated OF the strikes and the action OF
the president has been made the topic
OF wide editorial comment. Educational
matters have attention in an article by
DIR. Rice, In which he defends the nat
ural methods OF teaching against the
assaults OF those who believe Them to be
largely fads-efforts to find the royal
road to iearning--ahd who pin their
faith to the methods prevailing
when they went TO school. Old
fogyism. as the impatient refcrmers
term it. Is but that conservatism
which makes every reform fight for its
life. and thus establish It's right to sur
yive as the fitttest or It's fellows. Wood.
row Wilson has an article on "Upivers-
ity Training and Citizenship" In which
he urges the need of the education and
development of the national feeling.
the sense that along with the cosmO-
poiitanisn of science aud philosophy
there is a distinctive individuality in &.
every nation to he found In its literature
anu history, and that the universities of
the nation should aim to develop this
feeling In their students. Edward At
kinsOn looks at present Industrial prob
lens In the light of history and finds in
the prevailing discomfort only repeti-
ton of the processes by which
hn knc - ID. i'll
with which classes have bound 1t
and impeded its progress. He briefly re-
views the movements which have re-
suited In larger individual freedom.
There is discomfort today because there
''are wrongs affecting the man who
earns a dollar a day." These wrongs
spring from "tampering with the stand
ard of value: with putting selfish tnen
in places of power, who pervert the
force of taxation to private ends;" from
that neglect of duty which allows
''cities to be misgoverned and legislat-
Ors to be suborned." The article may
we'll be read in conjunction with that of
Judge Cooley, and that of Prof. Won
Hoist. in the Quarterly Review, which
place the blame OH those who are resist
Ing these Wrongs instead of pointing
out the true sources of discomfort.
Other articles cover present questions
of interest, il not OF the absorbing and
pressing Importance of those relating 10
sociology and economics.
THE NORTH AMERICAN The time
pressed reviewer, when this magazine is
reached, mathematics it's adherence to
that fad which sends magazine out
with its uncut pages to absorb valuable
time in the. work Of cutting open the
leaves that should be done by the
machine; fad that finds Its place only
in the circles where wealth gives leisure
for dawdling and has no place In the
busy workshops where time Is money
aud reading has to be snatched from
bread winning. With this growl for the
moments wasted in using the paper
knife, lessening the time that can be
given to reading the articles, we pass 10
briefly note them. A sketch of the late
lord chief justice of England by the
present one is given first place, with
"reminiscences OF him as Justice Russell
knew him personally at the bar, on the
bench and in society. While the feats
of Coleridge at the bar show his great
abilities, the pleasantest part of the
sketch is that which reveals the man IN
his social relations giving, as 1t does,
what. after all, interests men and w0m-
en- most-the purely human side of the
man. A timely congeries Of articles are
the three treating of China and Japan
In Korea-one by Mr.. Heard, late our
minister to Korea: the next by MIR.
Stevens. who is the legal adviser of the
Japanese legation in this country. and
rotary to the legation at Pekin. The
three enable the reader to gain more in
formation relative to the quarrel which
these nations are lighting out than
he has been able to get from
the news reports of the daily papers.
"Our Little War With China" by Rear
Admiral Crosby,of our navy,supplement
the foregoing. Prof. BlaIkie has very
readable article on the Pleasantly of
Scotland" and Richard Mansfield has
gossipy article on Concerning Acting"
Mr. Maxim, who is devotlng his talents
and money to the development of that
problem of the future-the navigation
OF the air-writes of the progress made
in overcoming the law of gravity. or
rather rendering 1t subservient to the
control of man. He Is firm In his faith
that the day is not far distant when
ships will carry passengers and freight
through the air as safely and more ex-
peditiously than they now transport
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The AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POLL
TICS, journal which Is persistently
holding its place and giving work to the
great army of the rejected who have not
yet attracted the attention of the editors
of the more noted magazines by the
brilliancy of their flashlights. comes
freigbted with articles ON all that range
of topics which can be covered under
the name of civcs. Many of these are
able treatment of the subjects. fully as
able as those by men whose names give
them ready entry to the more preten-
tiouS magazines and reviews.
In THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS DR..
Shaw writes of the progress of the
world, and especially that part of 1t
which relates to our country, with his
intense partisanry only senslbly modi-
fed by sense Of the judicial imparti-
atty of his position as chronicler and
commentator. In his treatment OF the
progress Of the tariff measure through
the first session of the congress he fails
to recognize that it was not a struggle
of parties so much as of principles in
which men. nominally Democrats but
actually paternalists, aided the open
paternalists in their efforts to prevent
redemption Ill full of Democratic
promises and the enforcement in
that act of Democratic prin.
ciple, casting their influence and
their votes in support of ''the con-.
munism of pelf". The Korean war