Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-08-16
CURRENT LITERATURE.

is no longer content with one.sided
business. II makes demands upon its
readers. 1t is waking up thought,
research. effort, response throughout,
one might say, the world. Each num-
ber goes deeper and deeper intu natures
secrets and often enough 1t Is the young
correspondence v no unearth them. 1t
is teaching children to see, report,
ldeduce correctly, which according to
President Eliot, is the aim Of all edu--
cation. At the same time each month
sets forth wonderful successes III prose.
puetry, drawing anu photography by
its young allies.
| The August number opens with a
regular New England story for girls.
Both Martha and Mary housewives will
persist till tho end of time and each
has lessons to inpartr The trip with a
raininaker shows that however 1t be
with journalism on original lipes, the
Rev. Mr.. Sheldon Is success in story
telling. Most Of the contents are Ia
touch with the outdoor lifo OF vacation
time. Especially so is "Junior Cup. -.
Evidently Bruin is in for leading
part Miss Helen N. Winslow writes
OF cate made famous by the their liter
airy DIVERS. Mr.. Stedman's, Miss Will
kins', Mrs. Moulton's pets come in. At
Miss Mary O. Booths Saturday even
ings, her cat, Muff, wore lace collar
brought from South America and, 1t IL
to be feared, rut on many other frills
and pretentions. Nersrtheless, he
sometimes appeared with a mouse
dangling from his mouth over the lace
collar and thus showed he was only
cat ut heart.
"The Occasional Poems of Rudyard
Kipling'' make up the second number
of the Cornhill Booklet, the new maya
zine Of reprints Of rare and Inaccessible
literary material which is being issued
by Alfred Bartlett OF Boston. Very few
Of the poems have been included in any
edition of Mr.. kipling's works and for
ttis reason all collectors will want this,
issue OF the magazine. There are poems
to Lord Roberts, Julia Marlowe, james
Whitconb Riley, Capt. Robley D.,
Evans, G. w. Stevens, to Queen Vic
toria's 5Oth jubilee as well as the
Recessional of the Goth jubilee, to the
KiplinR Club at Yals, and TO many.
other persons and events that have .ap.
Ieaied to Mr.. Kipling's muse. ThisAis
probably the largest collection of these
stray POEMS that has as yet been made
and 1t is certain to be OF tile widest
interest, There is an excellent portrait
Of MIR. Kipiing from the etching by
Strang, on Japan paper, and a fac
smile Of letter from Mr.. Kipling,
explaining the meaning of q line in his
poem on Lord Roberts. This issue more
than fulfls the promise rof the first
number, which contained q. reIrint OF
the famous Tribune Primer by Eugene
Field and which went into second
edition within three days of publica-
tion. the typographical appearance Of
the second number is unusually, at
tractive.
Writing for the August Atlantic,
President liadley Of Yale places the safe
foundations Of political education
rather in the: breadth and moral train
ing, the higher, intellectual impetus,
the. varied companionship Of university
life than In special studies. A disin-
terestedness which widens the outlook
| andg shames away self interests lies at
its root. The spirit is.all III NIL. 1t
will find and compel right methods.
En-; PEASANT, 1t may be remarked, that
the higher educators are much afraid
of too great and too early specification
of study 81. IL
Talcott Williams asserts that our new
dependencies cannot he ggagerped;, by
Congress-. They must be under imme-
date control of executive. So England
rules her SUBJECTS, .half sullen and
half wild" If this Is the outcome Of
hastily assumed responsibilities it GER
tainly is food for thought Mr.. Dunnell
is ut one with Lord Beresfoid as to
effective methods for China. The army
must be reorganized by foreign officers.
The internal revenue system, like the
customs service, must be managed by
outsiders. Joint action must preserve
the integrity of the empire. The policy
Of Seer etary Hay, the note of Ambassa-
dor Choate embody all that could be
| desired +tf
John Muir writes Of Yosemite wild
flowers, while Mr.. Hartt sets forth the
prosaio, il hesithy, information of Iowa
life. A system of severe fines there
has practically made prohibition into
high license. ,N.
Sympathy is the strong point of Miss
Alice Browns "Sea Change" 1t is n
could have done it. One understands,
y
| crowded with farmers wives. "For
happiness, . says Stuart Mill, "there
are two requisites, tranquility and in
terests." There ia deadly monotony,
a heart wearying iteration, which few
human beings can stand. Happily in
| this case help was found. A wise and
kind woman comprehendedt all, even
| the remedy. Sorrow had brought her
understanding ahd she gave. success
fully of her hard-won treasures.
The colored illustrations, in this
months Century show, and; do 1t most
enticingly, this glories of the New York
aquarium. This recent institution,
| the old Castle Garden, has special adj
vantages in its location close to salt
| water and tine spacious building which
it found there ready to hand. 1t has
been a labor OF love with its promoters
and coadjntors, and was particularly
successful in the brilliant tropical
| catch landed from Bermuda.
John Burroughs takes US a-summer-
ing in Alaska. Like Falstaff, he babbles
of green fields md he insists that no
verdure IL like that Of Alaska. Perhaps
the finest thing in the number is the
engraving of the : Great Hadick Benz. "
Landsser and Rosa Bonheur could not
disdRin it. Another open-air paper
describes Maurice ThomEson's wander
ings about the Blue Ridge with bow.
Totally unused to such arms, the
natives looked upon him as clear
ilunatic. -
Departing from precedent, The Gen.
tury hazards serial from an unknown
writer, Bertha Rumble inspired BY