Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1894-09-15 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

PERIODICALS FOR SEPTEARRR. TFIE PHRENOLIGICAL JOURNAL & SCIENCE OP HEALTH, (15 oente).—An settees, Mary Shaw, him 'A plea for voice culture.' which is very oomnlet and suggestive se to the methods and want of e method In the pulpit, at the lotr, and on the plat. little to cause them to seek that toe learners of a form, there are so many examples of' bad delivery,' talk and enstple%ch all fithuedselli high standard : the voles, trained or untrained. is often a sure indication of real character, and with the majority of speakers the art of speaking Is one of the least studied of all useful arts : it is commonly aeoepted as fact, that children's voices are better in sweetness. tone and modulation, than the voices of men and women, while It very seldom clams that the voice is well preserved in age, either for power, clearness or depth. bpecial contributions are alma Tne outlook for phrenology," Twenty Thousand Murders," The social status,. the two latter papers pointing out the apparent neonsity for some drastic means to prevent the criminal overthw from other countries from pouring into America, and legislation to shut up the blunts of criminal supplies from the already located violoue classes: it is not easy to explein, however, how a nation is to be per. eua led to em -imitate itself, unless some new enthusiasm can be created. A chat with'Toe white Mallatma,' while illustrated with some splen lid illus. ;rations from the book of Professor Semi S. Bale Witt who has given his close attention to so Galled ooAlt phenomena—has travelled in Thibet, penetrating further than other Europeans and A 1119110408, and learning more about Yogis. Gooroos, Fakirs. and Foongi, than ang of the adepts we have yet beam of —there are verions phrenological notes, whioh verify the correctness of racial character reading. The portraits in Nelson Sizer's paper, 'Weis Lord Colchester, and Ji113189 O. Andrew. The open. log phrenograph is of Mrs. Charlotte Fowler Wells, now in her eighty•first year. The month's number is altogether valuable. THE STRAND MAGAZINE (61 ).—Jast out for the month crowds in thirty-one contributions: the illustrated stories include Lost in the air' (trom the French of 14 ugene Mouton), Most truly one' (Edward Salmon),' roe Eagle's Crag' (M. P. Shiei). and 'Reading a play ' (May H. Tennyson), a most vividly stretched out sketch of a morning's suffering for an author who gets all the disappointment which can be crowded into the time. Arthur Morrison continues the ad ventu-es of ' Martin Elewitt, investigator,' whose history this month is ' The aff tit of the tortoise.' Fran3is FL Low has been favoured with the relationship some distingniehe 1 women now living had to their dolls in their early girlhood ; fee-similes of their writing are given, with portraits of the ladies; it is now impossible to reo iver the semblance of the dolls. Personal matters are still further dealt with In papers about the King and Q teen of Denmark, and in the continuation of the oseaription of' Engine drivers and their work,' with portraits from photographs. 'An expert in handwriting,' with many fee-similes, is strikingly useful on many points. The lovers of tricks and sUrnrikes will get a wrinkle or two in the diagrams brought to elucidate ' Peculiar furniture,' where the double debt' chiefly means some cunning contrivance for the product of disaster—chairs that imprison, backs to smite the head, seats to slip down, and stools to collapse, 'Giants and dwarfs' has reproductions from old prints, showing some of the renowned men and women whole greet difference from the average attracted curiosity. 'The likenesses of Shasespeere' are commented upon by Alexander Cargill; they are numerous, and will be found of permanent usefulness in this form.