Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-11-10
Anyway, we are all glad it is over.
ouKeENr ntrEEarnEn.

FROM our experience with Alaska,
the current Atlantic augurs i'll
for more extended colonies. The
interests of this possession, the
colony now in hand, have it seems
been wantonly sacrificed, to greed,
Ignorance and indifference. The Off
Gals sent out have been rather notable
for incompetency and fell without re-
sistance under the influence of the
corporations whose interests in the
region are entirely mercenery. With
civil service reform better things have,
however, been attempted. In this
agency lies the chief hope Of successful
colonization. A more cheering subject
is retrospect of our navy during the
late war. 10 this is appended few
touching lines on burial at sea.
As to the intellectual progress Of the
West, Mr.. Mabie proves too much.
While what has been done is adj
mirable, no good comes from making
light of gaps and deficiencies. In
passing, high place of culture and
intelligence is given to colonial Vir-
ginia and its immediate output, men
who were trainers and expounders of
the Constitution. These came from
social conditions, whose intellectual
There is not in literature more
striking group than Carlyle's rugged
peasant kindred. According to Mr..
Copeland, the editor and expounder OF
the letters now brought to light, the
great love of his life was his mother.
The present instalment covers her
death, described in strong and bcauti-
| full words.
1.-THE Battle of the Strong'' gives
the ancient appeal of "Haro," one Of
| the most curious and persistent Gus.
toms of the Channel Islands. The
story is, however, too long.
Prof. Munsterbergs psychological
papers are not for all, a fact which
must give them special charm to the
elect scholars who, can understand
them. Quite the contrary is true Of
John Muir's papers. His stories O.
bears, snakes, half-breeds and othel
| deni1ens of the Yosemite would in
terest even child In his broad Low,
of nature, he finds "extenuating cir
cumstances, even for rattlesnakes
1.-THE Alcalde's VISIT is a tale of GU
new possessions or like regions, i'm
pregnated with Spanish craft and ode
morals. Mr.. Sedgwick in forcible
but not at all novel paper, calls at
tention to the low ideal of life Sc
forth by Thackeray, thing, nov
somewhat old-fashioned.
The death of Harold Frederic on tn
10Th inst, in London, cast q gloon
over the literary world to which h
belonged. His weekly letters to tn
New York Times have been one of tn
most interesting features of the Sunda
issues. Mr.. Frederic was an Americas
by birth, but a Londoner by adoption
The general opinion seems to be tina
IL Mr.. Frederic had employed a com
petent physician his life might hav
been saved, his death is chargeable t
this account of what is called "Chris
tian science. "
Mr.. Hall Caine has been trying t
make himself ridiculous since
! stepped on our free soil. Nettled b
the attitude of the newspapers toward
his dramatization of his novel, eth
Christian, he wrote letter attribul
ing their hostility to mean motive.
His letter was published in the Ne
York Tribune with delightfully."- iron
i cal article by Mr.. William Winter.
Mr.. Caine is thought to bear stril
ing resemblance to Shakespeare.
spite of all the unfavorable criticisms
however, the public is floclsing to S,
"The Christian" Mi. Caine wi
probably return to his English non
! with fat purse.
While Mr. Game is bringing the shal
; cuts of the newspaper pens on his heaC
5 Mr.. Israel Zangwil is fast making
> good impression and gaining his SUI