The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-24
AMONG THE MAGAZINES.

President Charles w. Eliot of Har-
ward university opens the October At
lantic with a Enthusiastically origi-
nal and forcible paper on recent changes
in secondary education. Henry d.
Sedgwick, Jr., discusses the fu-
ture relations of the United States and
Rome, pointing out that all religious
denominations now appear to be gray
itating together, and that Rome as a
church universal, the church of the
poor and the multitude, may yet exer-
else controlling influence over our
people and our destiny. In language as
interpreter of life, President Benjamin
lac Wheeler shows that language is the
heart and life of nations, the social
bond, and the medium that brings the
student into touch with the life atti-
tude Of other nations as embodied in
their speech. Letting in the light is the
appropriate title given by Jacob A. Riis
to his description of the places where
rookeries and tenements have made
way for parks and Fairgrounds, and
his account of the health, happiness and
good order that have resulted. Chas.
M. Harvey in his article THE Louis
lana expansion in it's world aspect,
relates in no uncertain terms the story
of the uniformly and consistently ex-
pansiVe history of the nations, while
in The road to England" Col. 7. w.
Hfgginson gives a characteristic and
lively sketch of the social relations and
experiences of Englishmen in America
and Americans in England during the
last thirty years. The article is full
of the charm and discrimination which
distinguish all Col. Higginson's produc-
tons. In fiction, Miss Johnson's thrill
ing and powerful serial, ITO have and
to hold" becomes even more breath
lessly exciting as it approaches its as
yet skillfully concealed climax. Mrs.
Princes naive and delightfully."- humor-
GUS pitt Jean. Miss Earle's tender and
romantic Through old rose glasses,
and the ingenious and brilliant Virginia
correspondence, leave little to be de-
sired in shorter stories. In 1.-THE flaw
in our democracy" J. N. Larned points
out the weaknesses of our present po-
litical methods as shown in the gradual
evolution of the boss and machine sys-
| tenn and discusses the remedies, which
! he shows to be such as are easily pos
| sible to good citizens if they choose tt
act together and to act wisely. Pau
| e. More's George Meredith and Miss
| Preston's Mrs. Oliphant," are brilliant
| and searching reviews by skilled anC
| appreciative hands of two authors as
| famous as they are unlike.
| On Sept. 5, the Motor Vehicle Re,
view, which for two years had been Z
| department of the Cycle Gazette, ap
| peared as a separate and distinct pub
LEGATION. and will be issued weekly OF
! Tuesday. The new publication will
embrace every department of auto-mo
bile manufacture and use, and will b.
! Indispensable to every one interested
in the Coming vehicle" The prize
will be 81 per year.
"a womans criticism Of the women'I
congress" by Frances H. Low, is tn,
opening paper of the Living Age fol
| Sept %. Miss Low concludes tina
women's congresses are a lamentablt
waste of energy and a painful eXhibi
! ton of ignorance and folly; that they
| foster an enmity between the two
| sexes, exaggerate the Importance of 6
| womans work in activities which are
| adequately accomplished by men, anc
I underrate all the simple homely du-
| ties of noble and cultured women. The
| hidden history of the Oxford movement
| reviews Miss Yonge's John Keble's
! parishes: history of Hursley and OF
| terbourne"; Selma Lagerloef's story OF
| OdtIlG It dSL anu L cIi6I INOld 10 GOll-
| tinued, and there is also a good review
of Nine. de Sevigne, a sketch of the
| goyerness in fiction, a paper on the
| Highland clan system and one on the
| approach of the plague. beside several
! poems. The Living Age maintains a
! high standard and is one of the best
| family magazines published.
In the Conference at The Hague. DIR.
| James Harris Vickery gives an inter-
esting resume of that important con-
vocation. in the opening pages of The
| Independent for Sept. Il, Percy G.
| Marais Rex of the Transvaal civil ser
vice writes of the Transvaal question
| from a Boer point of view. in which he
says: '"Fhey (the English) have never
| treated US as equals, but more as il we
were dirt under their feet They have
| since this agitation started, decried our
nation, Knocked at our habits and GUS
toms, laughed at our religion, and then
| the next moment they have cried out
to the world that we would not extend
| to them the hand of brotherhood" DIR.
James ]. Walsh, of the editorial staff
of the Medical News, takes a somewhat
pessimistic view of our chances of ma
tional immunity from the plague.
Stories, poems and other articles make
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