March 15, 1889.] 



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— An important undertaking is promised by the Leonard Scott 

 Publication Company, in the American edition of the Nineteenth 

 Century for March, in the shape of an American supplement con- 

 taining a series of papers by some of the foremost of our educators 

 on the relation of examinations to education. This subject has 

 attracted considerable attention in England of late, having been 

 started by the "Signed Protest" in the November Nineteetith 

 Century. The present papers, presenting the subject from an 

 American standpoint, will be by ex- President McCosh of Prince- 

 ton, Presidents Adams of Cornell, Angell of the University of 

 Michigan, Carter of Williams, Eaton of Marietta, Oilman of Johns 

 Hopkins, Magill of Swarthmore, Pepper of Colby, Rhoades of Bryn 

 Mawr, and Sharpless of Haverford ; Chancellors John Hall of the 

 University of the City of New York, and Sims of Syracuse ; Pro- 

 fessors Cook of the University of California, Harper of Yale, Harris 

 of Concord, Hunt of Princeton, Rogers of Haverford, and David 

 Swing of Chicago; Rev. Dr. Crosby, Hamilton W. Mabie, Esq., 

 and Barr Ferree. Esq., of New York. Dr. William H. Burnham 

 will also contribute, and Professor Thompson of the University of 

 Pennsylvania. The symposium promises to form a most impor- 

 tant contribution to the discussion of a very dilificult question of 

 educational methods. The March number of the Nineteenth Cen- 

 tury, in addition to the papers on education and examination in 

 the American supplement, will contain an article by Mrs. Hum- 

 phry Ward, the author of " Robert Elsmere," on the new refor- 

 mation as viewed from her own standpoint. Professor Huxley 

 writes on " The Value of a Witness to the Miraculous ;" and the 

 review contains criticisms on his paper on agnosticism in the Feb- 

 ruary number, by the Rev. Dr. Wall, principal of King's College, 

 and Dr. Hagee, bishop of Peterborough. 



— The Popular Science Monthly for April will contain a scientific 

 explanation of the power to insnare the human mind possessed by 

 the leading delusion of the present day. The article is by Pro- 

 fessor Joseph Jastrow, and is entitled " The Psychology of Spiritual- 

 ism." It contains accounts of the manifestations by the Fox 

 sisters. Dr. Slade, Englinton, and other mediums, all of which have 

 been proved to be " gross intentional fraud throughout." Profes- 

 sor Huxley has written a racy reply to certain criticisms of agnos- 

 ticism made at the Church Congress of 1888, and to a recent de- 

 liverance by Frederic Harrison, who attempts to prophesy on this 

 subject. The article contains an account of how the name " ag- 

 nostic " originated, and explains why agnosticism, as Professor 



Huxley conceives it, cannot have a creed. It will also be pub- 

 lished in the April Popular Science Monthly, as will an article on, 

 "The Chemical Elements," by Professor Josiah P. Cooke of Har- 

 vard, telling the story of the changing beliefs about what sub- 

 stances are made of, from the time when earth, water, air, and fire 

 were thought to be the elements of all things, down to the present 

 day, with its list of over seventy simple substances, and when the 

 idea is gaining ground that perhaps there is only one kind of matter, 

 after all. 



— The paper in the Political Science Quarterly for March that 

 will attract most attention is that by Mr. H. O. Arnold-Foster, on 

 " Irish Secession." It gives what is probably the best presentation 

 of the Unionist argument that has appeared in this country, and 

 should be carefully read by every one desirous of understanding 

 the question at issue. The author takes up the home-rule argu- 

 ments one by one, and gives a conclusive answer to some, at least, 

 of them ; while at the same time he presents very forcible consid- 

 erations to show that an Irish parliament is equally undesirable for 

 England and for Ireland. Another article of interest is that by A, 

 Gauvain, on " The Crisis in France." M. Gauvain is deeply im- 

 pressed with the low character of French political life, with the 

 feebleness of the senate and the fickleness of the Cham.ber of 

 Deputies, and with the instability of the administration ; and he 

 evidently views the future with some alarm. He affirms, as other 

 observers have done, that there is no statesman of ability in the 

 country, and that the republicans are drifting towards radicalism. 

 Meanwhile the monarchists are gathering strength, and, with the aid 

 of the Boulangists, stand a good chance of carrying the coming elec- 

 tions. The Quarterly has still another article on foreign affairs, 

 that by Professor Gustav Cohn, on " Income and Property Taxes 

 in Switzerland." Injustice has often been done in all countries to 

 the poorer classes by raising too large a portion of the national 

 revenue by indirect taxation ; and Professor Cohn here shows how 

 the Swiss have endeavored to remedy this by laying a large share 

 of the burden on property and income. Mr. H. L. Osgood has a 

 paper on " Scientific Anarchism," in which he traces back the doc- 

 trine to Proudhon as its real originator, and then shows what 

 changes it has undergone at the hands of the " Individualistic An- 

 archists " and the "Internationals," concluding with a brief but 

 decisive argument against the whole scheme. Besides the various 

 essays, the Quarterly has an extended review of Bryce's " Ameri. 

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