EDITORIAL NOTES. 



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Thk Art Interchange^ published by Will- 

 iam Whitlock and edited by Arthur B. Tur- 

 nure at 140 Nassau Street, New York, is an 

 admirably conducted periodical. In the 

 number for March 15th we find several most 

 beautiful designs for the use of amateur and 

 art students. Eleven columns are devoted 

 to Notes and Queries upon art topics. Among 

 the subjects considered are — Plaster Casts, 

 Dacca Silk, Easter Church Trimming, Spray 

 Work, Drawn Work, Decoration for Fire- 

 place, Oil Colors for Grapes, Mirror Silver- 

 ing, Decorations for four sets of Scrym Cur- 

 tains, Inlaid floors. Text Book on Composi- 

 tion, Painting on Silk and Satin. 



All subscribers to the Art Interchange are 

 entitled to the privilege of asking advice on 

 topics connected with art, literature, and 

 etiquette. $2.00 per annum. 



The April Atlantic opens with the first in- 

 stallment of the dramatization of Henry 

 James's Daisy Miller, with new characters 

 and scenes. This is followed by Pillow- 

 Smoothing Authors, an essay by Dr. Holmes, 

 who furnishes a prelude on Night-Caps, and 

 comments on an old writer, namely. Burton, 

 from whom he makes copious extracts. 

 Charles Dudley Warner contributes a re- 

 markably excellent article on Modern Fic- 

 tion. Miss Sarah Orne Jewett has a delight- 

 fully characteristic New England story en- 

 titled A New Parishioner. Richard Grant 

 White contributes an article on the Bacon- 

 Shakespcare Craze. Bradford Torrey, writes 

 for this number an interesting article on 

 Bird-Songs. Elizabeth Robins writes of 

 Stage Bufifoons in different countries and 

 times. There are poems by Mr. Aldrich, 

 Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, and others, to- 

 gether with reviews of important recent 

 books, and the usual variety of the Contribu- 

 tors' Club. 



In the North American Review for April, 

 the scriptural and legal aspects of Divorce 

 are presented respectively by the Rev. Dr. 

 Theodore D. Woolsey, well known for his 

 insistance on the indissolubility of the mar- 

 riage tie, and by Judge John A. Jameson, a 



jurist whose long experience with divorce 

 cases in Chicago, both on the judicial bench 

 and at the bar, lends to his observations a 

 very special value. Dr. P. Bender, under the 

 title A Canadian View of Annexation, makes 

 a forcible presentation of the reasons which 

 incline many citizens of the Dominion to 

 favor the idea of absorption by the United 

 States. Senator John A. Logan sets forth 

 the need which exists for National Aid to 

 Public Schools in the several States and Ter- 

 ritories. The Rev. Dr. Howard Crosby 

 writes of The Dangerous Classes that men- 

 ace the perpetuity of civil order and the 

 peace of the community, meaning the manip- 

 ulators of corporation stocks and the men 

 who, having amassed enormous wealth, use 

 it for nefarious purposes. James C. Welling, 

 President of Columbian University, treats of 

 Race Education, the problem that confronts 

 the philosophic statesman, of the presence 

 in our body politic of a strong Negro contin- 

 gent. The Water Supply of Cities is discuss- 

 ed by Charles F. Wingate ; Ethic Systems, 

 by Prof. F. H. Hedge; Street Begging, by 

 Rev. Dr. Charles F. Deems, and Criticism 

 Christianity, by 0. B. Frothingham. Pub- 

 lished at 30 Lafayette Place, New York, and 

 for sale by booksellers generally. 



We are indebted to Prof. C. V. Riley, the 

 U. S. Entomologist, for a copy of Vol. I of 

 the Proceedings of the Biological Society of 

 Washington, containing an account ot the 

 Darwin Memorial Meeting, May 12, 1882, 

 with the addresses delivered on the occasion. 



Harper's Weekly for March 31st contains an 

 illustrated account of the lacustrine village of 

 St. Malo, at the foot of Lake Borgne, which 

 for fifty years has been occupied by certain 

 Malay fishermen from the Philhpine Islands. 

 The description of the manners and customs 

 of this strange settlement, in which there are 

 no womeu, is very interesting. Except for 

 the poisession of modern firearms and one an- 

 tiquated clock, the life of the lake dwellers of 

 St, Malo would seem to be about on a paral- 

 lel with that of the Swiss lacustrine settle- 

 ments of the Bronze epoch. 



