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consequently many Improvements have OF
late been effected. Laborious statistics
have been replaced by diagrams in which
the variations OF a curve express in most
striking manner the several phases of a
patiently observed phenomenon; and,
further, a recording apparatus, which
works automatically, can trace the curve
OF a physical or physiological event,
which, BIZ reason OF its slowness. its fee
bleness OF its rapidly, is otherwise inacces-
slble to observation. Sometimes, however,
a curve which represents the phases of a
phenomenon is found so misleading that
another and more serviceable method
namely: that of chronophotography-
has been invented. Professor Marcy has
been afforded unique opportunities for car
rying on his Investigations by the physio-
logical station endowed by the French Re-
public and by the city of Paris. In COM
pairing the locomotion of various species
OF animals he has studied each under the
natural conditions essential to success
fish in fresh water Or marine aquariums;
insects in open air; and man, quadrupeds
and birds in wide spaces IN which their
movements are unfettered. The develop
ment OF the new methods of analyzing
movement could never have proceeded
within the confined space of physiolog
ical laboratory. Marcy demonstrates that
photography will permit the exact meas
urement of time intervals, and that pho
Biography can also reproduce the trajectory
of a body moving in space, and 1t follows
that, if the two motions OF time and space
can be combined in Photographic images,
a acknowledgements method has been
instituted which explains all the factors
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Bailey. There are some beautiful senti-
ments in the volume, which touches
themes on all sides of life, while many of
the authors flowers are strewn on graves.
Here is one fancy" which affords fair
example OF the style:
CHARACTER.
'The whole world Is an archery field and Its
people are the targets; for at certain ages
every man comes forward in his regular turn
and serves as a mark for the darts from the
drawn bows of Joy, Sorrow, Jealousy, Disap-
pointment and Hate.
'Often the aim is false and the arrows fly
wide of their mark, while at other times they
come dangerously near: but oftener they
pierce him. and this wound Influences all his
future life, for man is young when he enters
the field where the life game is played. Then
there is great rivalry for points OF score among
this band OF archers so widely different; and
how eagerly, with drawn bows, they await
each newcomer!
''He who rejoices in being the target for Joy
and Love finds that they are always joined
sooner or later by another archer called Sor-
row, whose aim is unerring. Jealousy, Disap-
pontInent and Hate score many points; for
when the coward land the greater number OF
targets are cowards) confronts that row OF
wicked bows and fees for lack of moral
strength TO stand the wound, the quick eyes
and practiced hands of Jealousy, Disappoint-
ment and Hate send their arrows with sure
and rapid flight on their Gripping missions.
.sBut the telling game, which has been played
since time was, goes on and will continue as
long as time is. The old targets relate their
experiences over and over again, as guides to
It matters not however-the marksnen seem
to know tlieir own.
"The whole world is an archery-field and its
psople ere al weus6si-s0as slight!y, ot--<--
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n NSTANTANEOUS photography, espe-
cialIy that branch of it known as
chronophotography, has already won
! 1 for itself a recognized position
among the methods of scientific
research, and in tie near future
it is probable that it will be even more
generally appreciated. Marcy and Muy-
bridge are regarded as the two pioneers of
the method; the works of the latter,
written in English and published in
America, have been long within the reach
of all who can read the English language :;
on the other hand the works of Marcy
have been for the most part inaccessible to
those who are unfamiliar with French.
For that reason Eric Prltchard, MA, oh
tained permission to translate Professor
+. J. Marey's work, lie Movement"
This is one of the most recent and impor-
tant publications OF the eminent French
physicist and physiologist, and it is claimed
TO be the most comprehensive summary
hitherto published of the results and pos
slbllItles OF instantaneous photography.
The book, IN Mouvement" which has been
issued in the International Scientific,
is not only full of interest for both special
ist and general reader, but is replete with
suggestlveneSs OF new lines of research.
Professor Marcy, in his preface. remarks
that the graphic method, with its various
developments, has been of immense ser
vice to almost every branch OF science, and
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sTONEPAsTUKES.

Eleanor Stuart is the author OF a short
novel "Stonepastures" She writes like
novice in the realm of fiction. The plot OF
the story in question is not developed Win
remarkable cleverness, although some Oh
the incidents are oddly interesting. Els
saying the Swedish dialect. she MAKES the
Scandinavian heroine discourse In the
style of the 'down-East Yankee" OF the
melodrama rather than like countryman
of Ole Oleson. Stonepastures Is the
Poverty Flat of SCOT City. The authoress
is probably pioneer in one thing, now
ever-she has chosen for her heroine
female barber. Emma Butte is the name
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THE GERMAN PRESS.

DR.. Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer of the Phil
adelphia Evening Telegraph is the author
of volume rec emily issued in Berlin en-
titled. "The Relations between the State
and the Newspaper Press in the German
Empire, with Some Outlines of the Science
OF journalism" The book is an i'm portant
CO ntribut1on to contemporaneous litera-
ture, and sheds light on the severe press
restrictions of the Kaiser's realm.
every Prussian," says the Prussian
constitution of 1850, "is entitled to express
his opinion freely by word, writing, print
or artistic presentation. Censorship may
not be introduced; every other restriction
on freedom of the press will only be i'm
posed by law" Up to the year 1874 every
German state had its own peculiar press
law, but in that year all these various stat
utes became merged into one for the whole
empire. By this law the press of all Ger
many was relieved from some vexatious
restrictions-such as stamp duty, censor
ship and bail for good behavior, under
which 1t had heretofore groaned.
Nevertheless, it still continued subject
to series Of severe penal provisions, cal
eulated to establish in the mind of every
public writer what Bismarck termed q
wholesome equilibrium between the sense
of freedom and the sense of fear. This
equilibrium, however, may be said to have
been in q state of complete arrangement
to the disadvantage of freedom between
the years 1878 and 1890, during which
period the anti-Socialist law made confis-
cations and prosecutions of the daily press
an almost everyday occurrence. True, the
German press is not now subject to censor
ship in the sense that its productions must
first receive the imprimatur of the police
before they can see the light. But the
'trepressiye" measures which have now
taken the place of the old "prohibitive" or
preventive" system are OF a very incislye
and vexatious kind, making the lot of the
German journalist anything but a safe or
happy one. A copy of every newspaper
published in the German Empire must be
sent to the chief of the local police on the
early morning OF its issue; and If this
mum Der contains anything which appears
to bring 1t within the penal action of the
press law or the Criminal Code, the whole
issue of the number in question may be
summarily impounded, together with its
stereos and type forms" This may be
done, for example. if the paper in ques-
ton fails to give the name of its publisher
and responsible editor; if it reveals move
ments of troops or measures OF national
defense; if it publishes anything of trea-
sonable character, or in the nature of an
insult to the Emperor or one Of his federal
allies, or offers its readers any material of
a Iewd and impure kind, or incites to the
committai OF q penal offense, or stirs up
the various classes OF the lieges to violence
against one another. The police Of course
and their coadiutor, the public prosecutor.
have here very iu1Ee and elastic margin OF
iud<ment. and their object being an imme-
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in a movement which it is the desire to
understand. 1t also affords very simple
governmental solution of certain very com
pIicated mechanical problems. The whole
question of mechanics" is based on
knowledge of the movement wflch is I'M.
parted to a mass, for from the movement
Tho force which produces ii can be measured
The book contains over 200 illustrations.
and among the subjects outlined are: Hu,
man movements from the point OF view OF
kinetics, certain movements in man from
the point of view of dynamics, locomotlon
in man from an artistic point of view, To-
comotion of qqadrupeds ana az, OF "a aqha,ic hrdS
md insects' and the scientific applications
Of chronophotography. New York; D.
AppIeton & Co. For sale by William
Doxey; price 81 rs.
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THE PORT OF SHIPS.

Joaquin Miller's poem, "The Port OF
Ships" which was first published in THE
CALL in October, 1892 under the title "Co-
lumbus," has received high praise across
the ocean. In a recent critical article on
American letters in the London Athenaum
is this sentence: "In point OF power, work
manship and feeling, among all poems
written by Americans, we are inclined to
give first place to the Port OF Ships of
Joaquin Miller" AS the reader may feel q
fresh interest in the poem, since our British
cousins have accorded it such exalted
recognition, it is here reproduced:
Behind him lay the gray Azores,
Behind the Gates OF Hercules:
Before him not the ghost of Shores
Before him only shoreless seas.
The good mate said: "Now must we pray,
For loi the very stars are gone.
Brave Admiral speak-what shall say"
''Why, say, Sail on sail on! and on!''
"My men grow mutinous day oy day:
My men grow CHASTITY, wan and weak"
The stout mate thought OF home; spray
OF salt wave washed his swarthy cheek.
"What shall say, brave Adm raj, say,
If we sight naught but seas at dawn"
"Why you shall say, at break OF day,
Sail on Sail on! Sail on! and onv
They sailed, and sailed, as winds might blow,
Until at last the blanched mate said:
"Why, now not even God would know
Should and all my men fall dead.
These very winds forget their way,
For God from these dread seas is gone.
Now speak, brave Admiral; speak, and say"
He said: "Sail on! Sail on! and on!'
They sailed! They sailed Then spake the mate:
This mad sea shows its teeth to night;
He curls his lip, he lies in wait
With lifted teeth, as II TO bite!
Brave Admiral, say but one good word
What shall we do when hope is gomez"
The words leaped as leaping sword:
"Sail on sail on! Sail on and on!"
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"BLEAK HOUSE" LOCALITIES.

Charles Dickens, the younger, IN his in
PRODUCTION to 'Bleak House" (Macmillan's s
newly issued reprint of the original edi-
tom, Identifies some of the localities men,
toned in the story. Tom all Alone's has
disappeared, but the present Took's court,
Cursitor street, London, was Snagby Cooks
court; Chichester Rents leading from the
east side of New Square, Lincoln's Inn, to
Chancery lane, is the court in which Mr..
Krook came to such bad end; and Rus
sell court, between Catherine street and
Drury lane, is the thoroughfare whence
"a reekipg little tunnel of court" gave
access to the iron gate Of the "hemmed-in
churchyard, pestiferous and obscene" the
"beastlv scrap of ground" in which the
remains of Captain Hawdon received
Christian burial.
Russell court has been cleaned up of
late. and the horrible little churchyard has
been converted into an asphalted play
ground for the children of the neighbor-
hood, but the archway, and the tunAel,
and the steps, Mr.. Dickens says, are still
there. Mr.. Tulkinghorn's cham bers were
not far distant from 50 Lincoln's Inn
fields. where Mr.. Forster lived, and Mr..
Dickens has always thought that, al
tnOuSu TIE SuTrOuOulHSS VI the TWO
houses are altogether different, and al
though there was not the faintest likeness
between their occupants, Chesney Void
was much more than a mere accidental
resemblance to Rockingham Castle, in
Northamptonshire, the residence of the
Hon. Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Watson, to
whom David Copperfield'' was dedicated.
Although "Bleak House" when it first
appeared was one of the most popular of
Dickens books, it excited good deal of
spiteful criticism. Lord Denman, for in.
stance, who had been Chief Justice of the
Queens Bench, was very angry indeed
with the story, and criticized it with con-
siderable acerbity in series of articles
which he contributed to the Standard. The
causa teterrima was Mrs. Jellyby. Lord
Denman, an enthusiastic advocate of the
abolition of slavery, overlooking the fact
that the novelist was as good an abolition
ist as himself. somehow persuaded him.
self that the satire which was directed
against the absurdities and extravagances
of which Borrioboola-Gha was fair
enough type was calculated to obstruct
the great cause Of human improvement"
He failed to see that one might satirize
the foolish hangers-on of movement and
yet preserve a complete respect for and de-
votion to the cause itself.
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of the female raZor-wielder. She and her
father keep a couple OF boarders-Simeon
Quarry, an Englishman, is one; August
Jarlson, a Swede the other. Emma and
Jarlson are in love. The day OF the wed,
ding Is fixed, but just before the appointed
time for the ceremony the bridegroom is
brought home from the furnaces, singed.
blackened and sightless and all but dead.
He has been blasted" by a premature ex-
piosion. There is lengthy description or
the blast rite" No one in SCOT City was
surprised at a funeral for man yet IN
the flesh. "Such rites were the Gus
tom of the terrible, black little town,
where the birds flew low, for the
damp of the steam and the prevalence
of SCOT in the air. and where any fine man
who took life eagerly in the morning
might be blasted a the noontide snack
One idea that is directly referable
to the Swede minds is that which gave
rise to the blast rites. This feeling had be-
come general that man might get be
yond the blast'-that is, get over its scorch
and shock-if only his friends could be
brought to behave as If he were really
dead" And so Jarlson had funeral SER
vices sung over him, and it was Emma's
task to bring the dead back to life. When
JarlSon was BLASTED" paper was found
on him willing all his property to Emma.
The latter had been running barber-shop
Tor livelihood, and she lald down the
razor and the brush when she came into
a fortune OF $500. Quarry had always
been jealous of Jarlson, and he now made
haste to court the Butte girl. She ap::
peared to be rather reckless with her
money, and Quarry, selZing an oppor-
tunity, stole all she had saved. Thele Is
no talk OF Furnishing Quarry for this crime,
although he confesses his theft and by his
deed drives Emma and Jarlson penniless
from SCOT City out to the free dwellings OF
the Door at the stonepastures.
Quarry visits the family in the new
quarters and plots with Emma's father
near the supposedly unconscious form of
Jarison. The former awakens from his
deathlike sleep. A strike occurs In SCOT
City and it is planned to blow up the
shops. Jarlson has heard the plot from
Quarry's own lips while the latter sup
posed the former dead to the world of
sight and hearing. Emma, following the
instructions OF the lover, whose life she
bad preserved, hurries to the scene and
illustrates the devilish design, and Quarry
Is shot dead while endeavoring to escape.
Jarlson becomes himself again; Emma
gives up shaving. The couple are mar
ried and move from poverty fiat into a
downtown room. 1t is shown how justly
Quarry met his fate through Jarlson's in
formation, as the latter discloses the fact
that Quarry had set off the blast with mur-
derous intent at the, time Jarlson was
nearly singed to death. JarlSon becomes
an inventor and the book winds up with
Emma (too fine for the barber trade) learn
ing to play the piano, and Jarlson getting
a reputation as tenor singer. New
York: D. Appleton & Co. For sale by
Doxey; price 70 cents.
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MONTMARTRE.

C.. A. Murdoch & Co. of this City are the
publishers of communistic "poem" by
Austin Lewis. The title is ''Montmartre,
and it celebrates the uprising of the Paris
Commune in 1871, just quarter Ola CEN
tury ago this month. Mr.. Lewis is evil
IDENTIFY mild type of the anarchist. He
isn't a poet, but might pass in crowd of
everyday rhymesters. The verses are
printed in pamphlet form and the cover is
illustrated with picture of Anarchy, the
title being inscribed on a significant red
scroll. 1t was, perhaps, of just such as
Mr. Lewis that Pope wrote, "a little learn
ing is q DANGEROUS thing"
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LITERARY NOTES.

Meehan's Monthly for March Is re-
plete with valuable contributions to the
science of horticulture.
r. D. Blackmore's new novel, entitled
"Dariel: A Romance of Surrey" will be
published by Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co.
It will not appear until 1897.
A volume entitled Studies in Judea-
ism" by s. Shechter, which Macmillan &
Co. are soon to bring out, deals with some
obscure topics in the Jewish faith.
A. Blanck New York) has just pub
lished "Sarah Bernhardt, Artist and
Woman by A. L. Renner, with numer-
Gus autograph pages especially written by
Bernhardt. The volume contains sixt;
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been regarded as worth publishing. 1t was q
weak, puerile thing. But Poe read 1t, having
collected first his 800. some one OF the COM
pany ventured to say that it was far below Poe's
other poems then published. Poe arose at this
and told the party that he had written the
poem they had heard when he was Ia years
old and read it to them to try the accuracy of
their taste and poetic knowledge. He got very
little fame out OF this scrape and was roasted
and scorched in the papers without mercy.
Hny o tel 1t IN ana
l asked DR.. English his opinion OF Poe's
"Raven."
"What do I think of Poe's Raven? 1t is
more wonderful as verse than as poetry. At
the time it was written many thought it was
the work Of Hurst, clever Irishman, who,
while not much of poet, was the most finished
Hurst didn't. The idea of the Raven and its
climbing and perching was OBTAINED from one
of the conversations in Kit North's 'Noctes
AmbFosiana The style Oi .ne verse !. 1tself s.i
Geraldines Courtship.' oh. mol there was no
intended plagiarism in it. Poe got $50 for
THE Raven and SO verse 1or .Ihe Bells,
time. No; they didn't pay much to your
poets. They paid more Tor prose. Graham,
who founded Graham's Magazine, once paid
Fenimore Cooper $1,000 tor snort story called
The Lost handkerchief
"How did Lady Geraldine's Courtship' rum"
asked, as the doctor paused: ia never heard
OF it being Poe's model 1or .Ine Raven" and
was anxious to make comparison.
at oanters like this replied the doctor,
'.and would scarcely fail to remind you of Poe's
masterpiece, which was written afterward:
Sob how still the lady standeth! lis dream.
dream of mercies!
'TwIxt the purple lattice curtains how she
Standeth still and palei
IT'S a vision sure of mercies, sent to soften his
self curses
his wall
"Eyes," he said, snow tnroDolng through me!
Parian statue stone:
Underneath that calm white forehead are ye ever
burning torrid
o'er the desolate sand desert OF my heart and life
undone?"
With purmurous stir uncertain, IN the air the pur-
pie curtain
Sweileth in and swelleth out, around her motion
less pale brows,
While the gliding of the river sends ripplng
noise forever
Through the opening easement whtened by the
moonlight'S slant repose
Dr. English thrashed the author of "The
Raven on one tumultuous occasion. He does
not like to have the affair referred to, but 1t
ought to be told nevertheless.
Poe, who, as I stated, was In the sadly too
freq uent habit had pawned certain jewels he
had borrowed from lady. She implanted.
Poe made some remark about her which
reached the ears OF her brother, who soon
came after Poe with crabtree cane. Poe
walked into DR.. English's office, where he was
writing, and asked for pistol, saying that
the brother in question was looking for him
with cane intending TO beat him. Bob Tyler,
brother OF President Tyler, was sitting with
DR.. English at the time. The doctor expressed
sincere hope that the brother might find Poe
and fail him to death. This opened up the
avenue of q discussion between Poe and DR..
English, to which the doctor gave climax by
whipping Poe. The poet needed it,
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NEW MEMORIAL TO LINCOLN.

All the founders of McClure's Magazine
are recent graduates of Knox College,
Galeshnrg, ILL.,, and the editor, Mr.. Nc
Ciure, is a trustee of this college. They
have undertaken to assist the college in
establishing .'The Abraham Lincoln School
of Science and Practical Arts, as worthy
memorial to Abraham Lincoln. Before
Lincoln was even nominated for the Pres
idency Knox College conferred on him the
degree of Doctor of Laws, and at the time
of the famous Lincoln and Douglas de-
bate, held in Galesburg, October 7, 1853
the students carried banners inscribed
"Knox for Lincoln" The publishers of
McClure's Magazine have established 100
scholarships in this new school. Each
scholarship entities the holder to all the
privileges of Knox College, ana can be
earned by securing SEQ subscribers to Nc
Clure's Magazine. A scholarship pays the
board, room rent and tuition of any young
man or woman for year. The publishers
OF McClure's Magazine have also under
taken to raise an endowment fund of a
quarter of million dollars for this new
department of Knox College. On October
of this year the college will celebrate the
anniversary of the Lincoln and Douglas
debate. The Grafton will be delivered by
the Hon. Chauncey NJ. Depew, and many
men of National fame will be present.
There will undoubtedly be thousands pres
ent who were present at the debate.
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"A Warmer Climate Than New York.

"a Warmer Climate Than Now York.
"Have you heard recently from your
divorced husband?" said New York
lady, meeting friend.
ssYes; the last time heard from him he
was wearing his summer clothing"
"Good gracious! l didn't know he was
dead"
.He isn't; he's down IN Florida. -
Texas Sitter.
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badly. These wounds as they heal leave scars
called character" New York: Transatlantic
Publishing Company. For sale at the book
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SUCCESSORS TO THE TITLE.

There is one commendable thing to be
said about this new novel by Mrs. L. B.
Walford, just issued in Appleton's Town
and Country Library: its moral tone is
high, and juvenile readers will be rather
benefited by its perusal. It is simple
story, showing how great things may be
through a little perseverance.
The hero is listless fellow, with no par
ticuar aim In life. He visits a country
town, and there falls in love and marries
a girl with a small fortune. They travel
on the Continent for a couple OF years,
never remaining long enough in one place
to tire of it. Then the hero learns, to his
surprise, that he has fallen heir to for
tune and title. The pair take possession
of their new estates, and their common
and underbred manner causes much harsh
comment. They awaken to a sense of
their unfitness, and, with the aid of kind
friend, prepare like students for the world
OF refined society. After time they gain
the love and respect of all, and none
might know that they were not "to the
manner born" New York: D. Appleton
& Co. For sale by Doxey; price, so cents. ]
"FANCIEs FRAMED IN FLOREN-
TINE"
This is the title of pretty little volume
by Henry Russell Wray. There are thirty
eight "farcles" or poetical prose sketches,
each accompanied by one or more illus
trations from the pen of Vernon Howe
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It is estimated that of the $4,000 paupers
in London two-thirds are able-bodied and
capable of working.