EDITORIAL NOTES. 
mer Voyage down the Delaware.’”? Mark 
Twain has a very pungent tale entitled ‘« Ed- 
ward Mills and George Benton,” which sa- 
tirizes keenly certain forms of pseudo-phi- 
lanthropy. Mrs. Wallace, wife of General 
Lew. Wallace, Governor of New Mexico, 
writes ‘‘Among the Pueblos;” Richard 
Grant White’s English article this time is 
«¢ Taurus Centaurus.”’ The political article 
discusses ‘‘ The Republicans and their Can- 
didate’’? whom it regards as wholly worthy of 
confidence and enthusiastic support. Col. 
Higginson and Susan Coolidge furnish poems ; 
and reviews of new books and an attractive 
variety in the ‘‘ Contributors’ Club” com- 
plete a capital Summer number. The Aé/an- 
zc for September will contain two important 
political papers: one on Candidates and Par- 
ties, and the other relating to the duties of 
independent voters at the present juncture; 
also, a brilliant society story by the author 
of “‘One too Many”’; a study of the intimate 
life of a noble German family; a study of the 
people of a New England factory village; an 
article on women in social and charitable or- 
ganizations; a paper on socialistic assassina- 
tions; and a full variety of essays, reviews 
and poems. 
From the Catalogue of students at the Uni- 
versity of Kansas for this year, we glean the 
following items: The number of students is 
438—being an increase over last year of 38. 
Missouri sends seventeen, of whom six are 
from this city, viz.: Miss Ethel B. Allen, R. 
W. E. Twitchell, Wm.jG. Raymond, Orais 
E. Smith, A. M. Finney and H. M. Lewers. 
Bighteen different states are represented. 
The prospects are good for 500 students next 
‘Session. 
ProF. E. T. NELSON of the Ohio Wesleyan 
University, in writing for back numbers of 
the first and second volumes of the REVIEW, 
takes occasion to speak thus most flatteringly 
of it: ‘‘I feel it to be the Jest journal for the 
general student that is published in our 
country. It is for this reason that I wish to 
complete my set.” 
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THE Popular Science Monthly for July and 
August, reached us about the same time, 
the former too late for serviceable notice. 
The contents of the latter are varied and val- 
uable, comprising articles on The Kearney 
Agitation in California, by Henry George, 
in which an attempt is made to show that 
‘‘law”’ governs human actions as it does the 
conditions of the material universe, and that 
social phenomena may be attributed to gen- 
eral rather than special causes; the second 
chapter of Radeau’s Interior of the Earth, 
translated fromthe Revue des Deux Mondes: 
The Method of Zadig, by Prof. T. H. Hux- 
ley, which is a very attractive account of the 
manner of scientists in the interpretation of 
fossil remains and the method of reasoning 
which enables them from a fragment of an 
extinct animal to prophesy, not only the char- 
acter of the whole organism, but its past and 
future conditions; The Medicinal Leech; 
Recent Original Work at Harvard College ; 
Geology and History; The Cinchona For- 
ests of South America, and many others 
equally valuable. As usual, the Editor’s 
Table and Literary Notes constitute a very 
attractive feature. 
OuR space is too limited to say more of 
Good Company for August, than that it con- 
tinues to maintain a literary character which 
fully justifies it in assuming so self appreci- 
ative a title. It is a society magazine of just 
the kind to suit the best families all over the 
land. 
THE American Antiquarian for April, May 
and June, being No. 4, of Volume II, is de- 
cidedly the best number yet issued, and de- 
serves an extensive sale. In our opinion, no 
magazine of its class, either in the United 
States or across the water, equals it. Rey. 
Stephen D. Peet, is editor, but he has as as- 
sociates, Prof. E. A. Barber of Philadelphia, 
Prof. R. B. Anderson, Madison, Wis., A. S. 
Gatschet, Washington, D. C., and Rev. 
Selah Merrill, Andover, Mass.; while he has 
as contributors apparently nearly all of the 
archeologists of the country. 
