Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-09-14

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cURREsr LTrERATURE.
The leading article in Appleton's
Popular Science Monthly for September
contains very important discussion
Of the problem presented to all civilized
countries by the prevalence of the
plague in the East. The magnitude
Of the Eastern trade and the large
number of steamships and sailing YES
| sells which are continually going and
coming make it much more difficult to
keep out of country such pestilence
| than it was in the early days OF this
century. "Tuskcgee Institute and Its
President is the title of an interest
ing article by M. B. Thrasher. The
origin of this unique school, its steady
| growth, and the good work which it
is at present doing fol. the Southern
negroes, and through them for the
| whites, are all pointed out, A number
of illustrations aid very much to the
interest of the article. The conclusion
of Appleton Inorganic study of Recent
| Legislation Against the Drink Evil"
seems still more strongly to confirm his
view that the result of legislative in
reference up to date has rather in
creased than diminished drunkenness.
An attractive little natural history
sketch is written by w. e. Cram, The
artist naturalist, under the title Hawk
Lures. Prof. II. W. Conn of Wesleyan
University contributes an important
article on .The Milk Supply of Cities. "
| He first shows the serious results
which NAY follow from an impure milk
supply, and then points out methods
by which these dangers may he avoided.
The concluding article In Miss Zirn-
giebel's accountltof the Teachers
much interesting historical data and
some good illustrations. 1.-The In
fiuence of tho Weather Upon Crime"
is the title of curious article by
Edwin G. Dexter, q gentleman who
has been for several years past making
a special study of this subject, and
whose scientific monographs have at
tracted wide attention from the tech
nical papers, both here and in Europe.
Mrs. Jeanette Robinson Murphy, a
lady who has devoted her life TO the
study of the Southern darky, and who
grew up in the South" is the author
Of a paper on the Survival OF African
Music id America" The lack of the
normal increase In population in France
which has In recent years led to the
proposition TO impose special tax on
bachelors, is the subject of an interest
ing article by M. Jacques Bertillon. An
instructive account Of the poisonous
fishes which abound in West Indian
waters is from the pen of James Mac
donald Rogers, F. R. G. S., staff
surgeon in the English navy. Under
the title "Colors Of Northern Flowers, .
Mr.. John H. Lowell discusses the pre-
vailing colors in our northern wild
flowers, and a number of theories which
have been suggested as accounting for
natures curious color preferences.
Eduard Oscar Schmidt, the great Ger
man naturalist, is the subject of this
months Sketch. . His portrait forms
the frontispiece Of the humber. The
titles in the Editors Table are An
} Fashioned Moral and 1.-THE
Troubles Of Orthodoxy" New York
d. Appleton & Co.
The September Century is Salt
Water Number. In a general sense,
! this may be said to be apropos of the
| elhlbtoot III lud sdCht
! races for the Americas cup. The
special feature of the magazine is the
first of series Of four papers in which
Capt. Joshua Slocum narrates, 10 a
humorous and individual style, the
; story of his successful circumnaviga-
J tion of the globe, alone, in 40-foot
! sloop, the Spray, constructed by him
self. This unprecedented achievement
involved two crossings Of the Atlantic,
and the rounding of Cape Horn and
the Cape of Good Hope. In the open
ing instalment CAPT. Slocurn takes the
, Spray from Buzzard's Bay to Gibraltar
, and thence. in 80 days, to Pernambucc
J harbor, with 'all we'll on board,' and
a great eagerness for the more peril.
, GUS experience of rounding the Horn. -
I In 1.-The Way of . Ship''-a phrase
) borrowed from Solomon-Frank T..
: Bullen, author of 1.-THE Cruise of the
. Cachalot," tells of the peculiaritics,
. good or bad, of certain ships on which
3 he has gone down to the sea and il
Salvage, Morgan Robertson turns tc
. good account, as a fiction writer, the
intimate knowledge Of things nautical
acquired in 10 years before the mast.
1.-THE Atlantic Speedway and the
possibility Of making it, safer, engage
the attention of H. Phelps Whitmarsh,
, author of 1.-THE Worlds Rough Hand. y
, "Where Day is Lost or Gained" il
. the paradoxial title Of an article by
$ Benjamin Z. Smith on the inter
5 national date-line il the Pacific. The
8 annals of Chinese piracy have beer
3 ransacked to good purpose by John S.
Sewell, who writes Of 1.-THE Scourge O.
9 the Eastern Seas;'' and Now England
I family papers have been turned tt
a equally good account in Robert s. Ran
. toul's Voyage of the Quero." the true
, story of how the news, of Concord anc
S Lexington was carried TO King George
Winslow Homer, IA Painter of tn,
Sea-" is the subject Of critical paper
q by W. A. Coffin, with reproductions
. of some of the artists work; and mo-
D less appropriate to deep-sea number
, is DR.. Weir Mitchell's poem 1.-The SET
= Gull" "An American Forerunner O
j Dreyfus'' is the story of galan
American naval officer whose life wa.
: made a burden to him, early in tn,
. present century because of'fhis Jewish
4 birth and faith. The Alexander tn,
Q Great and "Many-Sided FRANKLIN
Q biographies are continued, and Craw
d ford's Via Crucis'' and Stockton.
s 1.-The Vizier;'' and there are othel
y papers, poems, and pictures that lands
4 men may prefer to the wealth OF materia