The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-10-09
The October Magazines.

The October number Of the North Ameri-
can Review opens with timely article on
the Governor OF Georgia. DIR. Henry Smith
Williams contributes a vigorous paper on
Politics and the insane" while in Birds
In Flight and the Flying Machine, Hiram ;.
Maxim writes hopefully OF the possibility that
a machine will yet be made whereby the
fight Of man will become an assured fact.
"some Problems OF the Age" are thouEhfully
considered by the Very Rev. y. W. Farrar.
the newly installed Dean OF Canterbury, and
in The Microbe as Social Leveller" Dr.
Cyrus Edison presents some practical facts ir
"a Study in Wives" four ideal types OF wo.
authors auth Of dersnt natonaiiies. @ Max Spf%h oRei
1.-THE hneiish Wife Kari Blind "Tho Ger,
dnavSn % And II the rest Of the eontr sSa
buttons are almost equally notable for time
liness or literary value.
The contents Of the American Historical
Review, the first number OF which appeared
on October ], includes among the original
articles History ana Democracy" by Pro-
fessor William M. sloane OF Princeton, whose
Life of Napoleon. now running in The
Century, has attracted 80 much attention; /;
.'The Party Of the Loyalists in the American
Revolution" by Porfessor Moses Colt Tyler.
Ill. D.. Of Cornell; "The First Castilian In.
Philadelphia: Count Edward do Crilon,"
by Henry Adams, LII. D.. Of Washington.
D. G.; Western state Making in the Reyolu,
Turner Of the University Of Wisconsin. In the
department OF documents printed two
letters Of Colonel W. Byrd of Virginia, dated
1888 and 1879, respecting slavery and in.
dented servants; Intercepted letters Of Colonel
George Rogers Clark, written during his cam.
paign OF 1889 and lettors OF Howell Cobb
and b. III. Hal. TO Jefferson Davis and Secre.
tary Seldom In January and March. 1885.
illustrating the relations OF Georgia to the
Confederacy. There are also reviews Of i'm.
portanco and interest, notes and views and
general sufficiency TO command the support of
intelligent persons for the new magazine.
with the October number The Centur, closes
Its 25th year and its 50th volume but. not.
withstanding this rather veSerable age among
magazines, Its contents show youthful vigor
and n particular. timeliness. This month
marks the centenary OF Keats, and there are
several articles on the poet. There are also
several tributes 20 T. J. Glsve. the young ex-
plorer who died n few months ago In Africa,
where he was conducting an investigation OF
the slave trade in the interests OF this maya.
zine. Professor Cesare Lombroso has an essay
on "Nordau's Degeneration, It's Value and
Its Errors," in which he takes exception 20
many Of the conclusions OF his follower. He
differs from Nordsu mainly on the question
OF genius. citing the case OF Wagner. OF whom
he is evidently an admirer, at some length.
There isa second and concluding paper ty
Miss Anna l.. Bicknell on life in the Tuif.
cries Under the Second Empire" full OF
lively anecdotes of Eugenie and the ladies' OF
her court. Professor Sloane's "Life OF Napo-
leon" reaches the period of the execution of
Marriage Rate Of College Women, y by Miss
Mlicent W. Shinn. And this IL not all thero
is 70 make the silver Century OF unusual in.
terest and value.
The Bookman for October II one OF the most
interesting periodicals at hand. Dodd, Mead
A Co. in this fine magazine furnish the liter
airy fellers with matter that they can really