The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-05-08
MAGAZINE NOTES.

THE Preachers Magazine for May
contains large number of articles espe-
cially devoted to Memorial Day. The
Rev. JohnW. Savers contributes "a Me
mortal Sermon :" the Rev. J. H. Macon
Der, u s. A., an address entitled, 'Our
Dead;'' and under the general heading.
thoughts for Memorial Day, +" are many
pointedselections by clergymen and others
all most suggestive and appropriate TIL
Homiletic department contains severa
sermons,in outline by the Rev. S. Barring
Gould, and many other well known clergy
men, Those who may be called upon to
deliver addresses OF sermons on Decora-
ton Day will find the number very sug-
gestive and full of Memorial matter. -
(Wilber B. Ketcham, Publisher, Cooper
Union, New York
The Forum for May presents the fol-
lowing important topics discussed by
writers several of whom are specialists
in their particular field: 'sThe Progress
sive Inheritance Tax Hon. James A.
Roberts, Comptroller of the State of New
York; HAS the Senate Degenerated? A
Reply to Senator Hoar," Charles r. Mil
Ter, Editor of the "New.:York Times;''
The lgnominy of Europe, y Prof Thomas
Davidson; ''Onr Export Trade" Charles
r. Flint; Industrial Combinations,
George T. Oliver; New England Infu-
ences in French Canada - Edward Far
rer; France as a Field for American
Students Prof Simon Newcomb; 1.-THE
Emperor William H., Paul Lindenberg;
1.-The Autocrat of Congress-" Henry
Litchfield West, @'Fallacies Concerning
Prayer Rev. James M Whiton "Was
Poe Plagiaristg'' Joel Benton Social
ism in France" Georges Clemenceau,
Editor of LA JUSTICE 1t is a very
able and thoroughly ''up to date number
of this valuable review. (The Forum
Publishing Co., New York.
''Harper's Magazine for May presents
many features of interest, pictorially and
otherwise. The number opens with an
article on Gross Country Riding" illus
trated by G. Dana Gibson and others, in
which Caspar Whitney sketches the his
tory of drag hunting in America, present.
ing its claims to cultivation as a sport and
touching briefly on the leading hunt
clubs. In "a Few Native Orchids and
Their Insect Sponsors the late William
Hamilton Gibson, the great artist-natur-
alist, describes and illustrates many ia
miliar flowers of our woods and fields and
explains their various devices for cross
fertilization by means of insect sponsors.
''White Mans Black Man, the seventh
article in the series by Poultney Bigelow,
entitled, white Mans Africa treats
of the employment of native labor, and
incidentally presents two characteristic
negro folk-tales, one of them the African
original of Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby.
Mr. George w. Smalley writes interest
ingly of English Country Houses, " and
describes the manner of life therein with
the peculiar etiquette and customs of the
higher. class of English people in their
country homes. (Harper's, New York;
In it's May number tie "Atlantic
Monthly contains two instructive arti
cles on life in rural New England and the
problems presented by the rush of the
population to great cities. One of these
articles is study of a remote village
which has not been reached by modern
methods of life. The native characteris-
tics, which were not very long ago shared
by large part of the rural population of
New England, now seem so remote as al
most to be regarded as curiosities. This
sympathetic sketch shows the life of the
village in all its phases. The other study
is of farming town which has indeed
kept somewhat apace with modern pro-
gress, but still retains the features of the
old rural life. Its accurate and faithful
pictures of these country towns now seem
almost like descriptions of another civili-
cation, so far removed are they from the
characteristic modern hustle of city life
All the important problems which have
aisen in the recent shifting of population
and changes of industry are illustrated in
these sketches.
In contrast with these studies is a de-
scriptiOn of "Real Utopias in the Arid
West by Mr.. William E. Smythe, which
gives a description of life in Greeley,
Colorado, and an explanation of the de-
velopment of rational approach to COM
munism in the fruit-growing settlements
of Southern California.
Besides these articles the May "Atlan-
tic'' contains an explanation of how art
may play its proper part in our public
schools, by Mrs. Sarah w. Whitman; an
account of Nansen's heroic journey and
his scientific achievements, by Professor
n. S. Shaler, of Harvard, besides short
stories, literary articles, aud a character
istic pleasing paper on the Japanese city
of lzumo, by Lafcadio Hearn. (Roston,
Houghton, Miffiin 4 CO..