The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-06

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sor Hugo Muensterberg discusses the
relations between cart and Psychol-
ogy' showing that the purposes of
art is to create and that of psychology
to analyze and interpret. The Confess
sions of Three School Superintendent"
gives clear and much needed exposure
of many evils connected with the pres
ent school system. To the brilliant and
characteristic letters of Carlyle, which
in this issue deal with the death of
his mother and the completion of his
Cromwell, is added an appreciative pa
per upon the Carlyle letters by Charles
T. Copeland, the editor of the Carlyle
Series. THE Battle of the Strong in
creases in intensity as it approaches the
end Short stories, poems and judi
cious aper on Thackeray by Henry d.
Sedgwick, Jr., complete a well balanced
and able number.
In THE House Beautiful" Sarah A
Tooley has a specially interesting illus
trated article of the two cottage homes
of Lady Henry Somerset in Surrey,
England; Donald Warren talks inter
estingly also of Venetian glass, Oliver
Coleman contributes a paper on Sue
cessfu Houses" and there are numer-
Gus well written articles on various
subjects connected with decorating and
housekeeping, with many excellent il
The leading place in Appleton's Pop
ular Science Monthly is given to the
examination. by Prof. E. S. Morse. of
the ever-interesting question, Was
America people from Asia?" particu-
| larly with reference to the origin of the
aboriginal civilization of America. The
author finds the evidence in favor of
the affirmative of the question INSULT
..f IA 1ifa i'm
portance is presented by Charles r.
Dodge in an Illustrated article on THE
possible fibre industries of the United
States" In what is social evolution?"
Mr.. Herbert Spencer, reviewing Mr.. w.
H. Mallock's book, "AriStocracy and
Evolution" gives an exact definition of
social evolution, and distinguishes be-
tween it and social sustentation. The
way in which the Torrents of Switzer-
land" are regulated according to ac-
cepted rules based on experience and
on theories that have been confirmed
by facts, is well described by Mr. Err
gar r. Dawson The fifth number of
Mr.. James Golfers series on THE evo-
luton of colonies" is devoted to their
political evolution. The Cause of
rain is found by M. j. r. Plumandon,
of the observatory of the Puy de Dome,
to lie in condensation upon dust partl-
cles floating in the atmosphere. Dream
and reality is an ingenious psycholog-
ical speculation by M. Camille Nell
nand, in which some curious conclu-
sions are. reached concerning different
mental states and the problem of the
futurelife. "a practical Dutch char
ity'' is an account, by j. H. Gore, OF
a peoples palace in Amsterdam. Prof.
Frank Wigglesworth Clark, chemist OF
the United States geological survey, is
the subject of the biographical sketch
and portrait in the present number,
and there are several other excellent
articles
The coming of a new Bookman is al
wavs an event. and until the pages
have all been cut and one has saun-
tered through the volume, leisurely
browsing here and there, tasting OF
this and nippling of that. it is impos-
sible to lay it down. The November
issue is as good as any of its predeees-
sors-it could scarcely be better There
isthe usual instalment of entertaining
chronicle and comment; Norman
HarSgo0d gives a review of the drama
of the month, which is illustrated with
portraits of Richard Mansfield as
Cyranio and 10 Jefferson as Bob Acres.
The article concludes with a very sati-
rical account of the first night of 1.-THE
Christian" Arthur HOLDER contributes
fully illustrated article, the first in
a series, on "A century of American
Illustration" in which some of the
coarse wood cuts of Harpers Magazine
and the gift books published in the
early decades of the 10th century are
reproduced. Luther S. Livingston con-
tributes the third number in his series
of articles on THE first books of some
of some early editions of Irving, Poe
American authors, with fac-similes
of some early editions of Irving, Poe
and Whitman. In "A political judge of
the seventeenth century," Edward M.
ole reviews the new life of Jeffersoh-
Cole reviews the new life of Jeffreys by
H. B. Irving, the son of Sir Henry r.
wing; Harry Thurston Peck writes APP
preciatively of Stephane Mallarme,
whom he regards as a decadent with
out being a degenerate; Kuno Francke
contributes an article on Peter Roseg-
ger, the Syrian poet, in the third of
his articles on Contemporary German
literature" Apropos of Miss Mary J.
Serrano's new translation of Or Pas
cal, by Emile lola, Frank Moore Col
by writes in very bright vein of 20
laland. In his second article on THE
dawn of the Russian novel," Melville
Joyce reaches Tourgenief and Dos
toievsky. Clement Shoder's brilliant
Literary causerie" on the Wordsworth
country the regular Paris letter, with
poems, book reviews and minor arti-
cles make up an issue of great merit.
Richard Harding Davis is the author
| OF the leading article in Scribner s.
which describes in his usual brilliant
vigorous manner, 1.-The Porto Rican
| Campaign" and is illustrated from
| photographs taken by Mr.. Davis Sec
| ond comes Capt. F.E. Chadwick's paper
| on The Navy in the War;, with a dia-
gram showing the disposition of the
squadron at Santiago. John r. Spears
paper on Torpedo Boats in the War
With SPAIN" and Steven Wallis "a
! Night Escape-An Episode of the War, -
| complete-the war articles in the num-
! Der. Walter A. Wyckoff concludes his
| very remarkable series of THE Work
| ers,' and Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge
| continues THE Story of the Revolu-
| tion,' with an account of Yorktown
Ada Cone discourses vivaciously or
! The Woman's Paris" being assisted
materially by the illustrations, and
Charles Dana Gibson contributes five
of his characteristic sketches of New
! York life. Beside Thomas Nelson
| Pages RED Rock which reaches its
| conclusion in this number there are
| poems and short stories with 1.-The
| Point of View" and THE Field OF
Art"
The war, which figures SO prominent
| ly in Scrbners and the Review of Re
views, also dictates the leading fea-
lures of Harper's Magazine. Lieut. .
| c. Fremont, commanding the Porter,
writes of the character and the value
! of the torpedo boat service, and gives
striking instances of heroic adventure.
Frederick Remington contributes a
picturesque description of the first land
battle in the Spanish war, with seven
| illustrations by the author. IN "Our
seaboard islands on the Pacific" John
| e. Bennett gives an account of the GU
rious geological formations and the ma