The morning call., 1894-05-06

written IN conformity to the advancement
/ OF the science, it remains one of our best
! textbooks of chemistry. Soon after this
/ the world began TO look brighter for You
mans. and with improved fortunes came
/ better health and spirits. This had an
| effect upon his eyes, and although
! he always had to favor them. the maady
! IN virulent form never returned. For
! seventeen years he was in demand as a
| lecturer on science, and few men became
/ greater favorites on the lyceum platform
/ than he. In April. 1872, he Popular Sci
ence Monthly, an undertaking which he
had long had in contemplation. made its
| appearance. In the earlier numbers he
! had series of articles from the pen of
/ Herbert Spencer He had met the great
| philosopher during a visit to England
some years previously, and a strong
friendship had sprung up between them.
| Considerable space In the volume is de-
voted TO YOumans' correspondence with
Spencer, Huxley, Tyndal and others.
Many Of tile letters are extremely inter-
esling. One of 10umaDs' letters TO Spencer
gives an account OF a visit he paid to
Horace Greeley with reference to publish
ing some of his (SpenceI's) articles in The
Tribune He (Greeley) is as ignorant as
a Bnshman." writes YOumans. Contin u
ing. he says: Conversation with him on
the subject is hardly possible. AS for
sociology said he, Fourier proclaimed
more thirty years ago than this generation
can appreciate When your name was
mentioned lie broke out that he was dead
and forever opposed to that whole laissez-
faire school; If the articles contained any
of that he did not want them" In con-
Guiding his sketch of fOumans Mr.. Fiske
says: $40 Edward Youmsns the impeIa-
tive need for educating the great mass of
the people so as TO use their mental pow
ers to the best advantage came home as
living, ever-present fact He saw all that
it meant aud means in the raising of man.
kind to higher level of thought and ac-
tion than that upon which they now live.
To this end he cODsecrated himself with
unallOyed devotion, and we who mourn
his loss look back upon his noble career
with a sense of victory, knowing how the
good that such man does lives after him
and can never die" New York: ID. Ap-
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MARCELLA.-No one can read this latest
novel of Mrs. Humphry Ward without
being Impressed with her power as a
thinker and a writer of romance. The
heroine is bold, impulsive young woman
who imblbes sociallstic ideas which have
a large influence upon her after life. She
is q when, after having spent year In
London as an art student, during which
time her mind had fallen iuto the social.
istic groove. she returns to her fathers
home. The latter has just come into the
family estate, but Il is heavily incunl-
beIed. and the grand ideas which Marcella
had dreamed Of of improving the home life
of the tenants have. after struggle, to be
abandoned. II is during this period that
Aldous Raehurn, the grandson ana heir of
he rich old Lord Maxwell, tails in love
with her and is accepted. just about this
time, however. she meets one Harry
Wharton. young man who has come down
from London 10 stand for Parliament
as a Liberal. Wharton has dipped intu
socialism little himself, and this acts as
tie 10 bring them into very friendly rela-
tions. Now, jim Hurd, vilagel, comes
upon the scene. He engages in poacblng
affair which results in his shooting one of
Lord Maxwel's keepers. Marcela at once
becomes interested in the case and M
plOys Wharton to defend the poacher
But the young barrister's eloQuence is of
no avail and Hurd is condemned to death.
Then Marcella breaks off the engagement
with Raeburn and goes TO London, where
she devotes herself TO work nc among the
poor as a trained nurse. For two years
she lives this seli-sacrificing life and then
and then reflection softens her heart to-
ward Raeburn. and she calls him to her
| side and they are married. This is but a
mere outline Of Mrs. Wards latest and, all