The record-union., 1896-09-27

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| Among the books to be published at
an early day by The Macmillan Com
pany, New York, is The Education OF
the Central Nervous System; Study
of Foundations" by Reuben Post Hal
| leck, M. A., of the Male High School,
Louisville, KY, author of Psychology
and Physic Culture" etc.
| His book is not a scientific. In the
sense of being a technical, treatment OF
| this important subject, but is one Whlcn
| will be most useful to any teacher OF
parent who is seeking practical sugges-
tions for the education of the human
brain while it is still plastic and readily
| influenced.
| The book is based on the localization
of nervous processes in the brain tissue;
and the possibility of modifying the
central nerve cells by presenting ap-
propriate external stimuli. The author
shows also that recalling images OBJ
jects may be employed to supplement d.
rect sensory stimuli in producing such
development; that the endeavor to in
terpret natural objects and phenomena
| by definite images based on every sense
to which they appeal will render more
permanent the existing notifications
in nerve cells, and also serve as an IN
centive to acquire wider and more exact
/ sensory experience, so that in the end
no portion of the brain area may remain
4 ~, n rnln &c
1t is distinctly teachers book rich in
helpful advice
| No reader of the Bonnie Brier Bush
stories can fail to be interested in the
opening article in the October Nc
Clure's Magazine" New York. 1t is an
account Of Ian Maclaren, the author
of those most genial tales. by an init
mate personal friend, the Rev. D. M
Ross describing him as minister and
pulpit orator, in which characters he
had become eminent long before he took
up authorship, as we'll as in his literary
| methods and career A series of por-
| traits, pictures of Ian Maclaren's sew
! eral residences and some original
! Drumtochty views illustrate the paper
Rudyard Kipling contributes one of his
strongest ballads Cholera Camp.
Other contributions are vivid account
Of the Lincoln and Douglas debates OF
| 1853, drawn from the personal reminis-
cences; recolectons of Ii Hung Chang
| and his labors for the advancement OF
| China by the Hon. Chester HOlcombe;
| Will Fl. Lows reminisceceS of a recep-
] ton day at the French Salon, and i'm
| pressions of Fortuny, Dagnan BOu-
| veret, Cain, and other important re-
cent painters; and paper by Elizabeth
! Stuart Phelps, giving her recollections
of the poet Edward Rowland Sill. AL
of these papers are fully illustrated. The
| fiction is up to the Mcclure standard
1t includes the final installment of the
Anthony Hope novel "Phroso," which
closes in a perfect flood of engaging ad-
ventures; fine story by Robert w
Chambers a swashing sea story, by
Morgan Robertson; and a story of Lon
don adventure by w. Pett Ridge.
|
Washington's Farewell Address was
dated September II, 1I96, and published
two days later. 1t is therefore, just a
| century since that immortal paper was
given to the American people. AS its
centennial comes, every sober and pat
riOtic citizen ought to read it's solemn
words anew, and ask how well the re-
public is obeying its admonitions and
needing its warnings. 1t is fortunate
that it is included in the invaluable
series of ''Old South Leaflets" so that
for cents every person may possess
| himslf of a good copy. 1t ought not
only to be read by every voter; it ought
to be read and studied by the young
people in every public school. Apply to
Directors of The Old South Work, Bos-
ton, for copies.
| A story Of the time of Shakespeare
| written by John Bennett, will be the
| leading serial for the new volume OF
st Nicholas" CNew York;. 1t is called
Master Skylark," and will deal with
| the romantic events of the EliZabethan
age The great dramatist figures as one
| of the leading characters, although the
| hero and heroine are a boy and girl
| Another serial, The Last Three Sol
| diers," by William H. Shelton, has a
novel plot. 1t tells of three Union sol
| diers who became veritable castaways
in the Confederacy. Both stories will
| begin in the November ''St. Nicholas.
The Star Publishing Company Chi
cago, have nearly ready for publication
| a book of unique interest, entitled To
| TEN Tales by w. S. Phillips. Mr.. Phil
| lips has spent many years among the
Indian tribes of the Pacific Northwest
| studying into and gathering UP their
| legends and superstitions and has ac-
| cUmulated vast fund Of material from
| which the forthcoming book is the first
| fruits. This material in a few years it
| will be impossible to collect for with the
| advance of civilization and education
among the Indians, the trained story
teller, who alone knows these legends
| and myths, and whose business it is to
| hand them down from father to son. is
/ fast becoming only remembrance and
! character of the past. Mr.. Phillips is an
artist as we'll as story teller. and has IL
lustrated his book with $50 original
drawings characteristic of the tales The
author describes his book as Indian
| Stories Indian Told" and he has pre-
served the quaint and simple idioms OF
| the original Indian Story Teller.
|
A new and charming song entitled
God Protect Ny Little Sweetheart" is
g lullaby composed by NJ Loosen. and
Just published by J. Fischer & Brother
Z Bible House, New York Of the many
lullaby songs" which have already
been issued, we know of none excellins
this one in quaintness of melody and in
genuity of accompaniment 1t will be
| sure to please. 1t sells at 40 cents.
| Ignace Paderewski has written a new
minuet for the piano, which he has ded-
| icated to his American admirers and
given the significant name of "Menuet