EDITORIAL NOTES. 



The North American Review for August 

 contains an article by Justice James V. 

 Campbell on " The Encroachments of 

 Capital," which will command the serious 

 attention of all readers. Richard A. Proctor 

 treats of "The Origin of Comets," and 

 succeeds in presenting that difficult subject 

 in a light so clear that persons who have 

 little or no acquaintance with astronomy 

 can follow his argumeifl. " Are we a Nation 

 of Kascals?''' is the startling title of an 

 article by John F. Hume, who shows that 

 states, coiinties and municipalities in the 

 United States have already formally repudi- 

 ated, or defaulted in the payment of in- 

 terest on an amount of bonds and other 

 obligations equal to the sum of the national 

 debt. Judge Edward C. Loring finds a 

 " Drift toward Centralization " in the recent 

 judgment of the United States Supreme 

 Court on the power of the Federal Govern- 

 ment to issue paper money, and in the opin- 

 ion of the minority of the same court 

 rendered in the suit for the Arlington prop- 

 erty. Julian Hawthorne writes of " The 

 American Element in Fiction," and there is 

 a symposium on " Prohibition and Per- 

 suasion," by Neal Dow and Dr. Dio Lewis. 



The Atlantic Monthly for August has the 

 following attractive table of contents. In 

 War Time, XV., XVI., S. Weir Mitchell ; 

 Carpe Diem, E. R. Sill; The Twilight of 

 Greek and Roman Sculpture, William 

 Shields Liscomb; The Zig Zag Telegraph, 

 Lloyd G. Thompson ; The Rose and the 



Oriole, Thomas William Parsons; A Cook's 

 Tourist in Spain, II ; Dinky, Mary Beale 

 Brainerd ; Nathaniel Parker Willis, Ed- 

 ward F. Hayward ; The Edda Among the 

 Algonquin Indians, Charles G. Leland ; The 

 Thunder-Cloud, James T. McKay ; Bugs and 

 Beasts before the Law, E. P. Evans ; An Old 

 New England Divine, Kate Gannett Wells; 

 The Anatomizing of William Shakespeare, 

 III. Richard and Grant White ; Where It 

 Listeth, Edith M. Thomas ; Lodge's Histori- 

 cal Studies; A Modern Prophet; The Con- 

 ti-ibutors' Club ; Books of the Month. 



The Popular Science Monthly for August is 

 promp,tly on hand. The contents are as 

 follows: Hickory-Nuts and Butter-Nuts, by 

 Grant Allen ; The Ghost of Religion, by 

 Frederic Harrison; Retrogressive Religion, 

 by Herbert Spencer; Some Rambles of a 

 Naturalist, by Charles C. Abbott, M. D. ; 

 Scientific Philanthropy, by Lee J. Vance, B. 

 S. ; The World's Geyser Regions, by A. C. 

 Peale, M. D. ; (Illustrated.) Reparation to 

 Innocent Convicts, by Dr. Henrich Jaques ; 

 The Chemistry of Cookery, by W. Mattieu 

 Williams ; My Monkeys, by M. J. Fisher ; 

 The Salt-Deposits of Western New York, by 

 Frederic G. Mather ; The Morality of Happi- 

 ness, by Thomas Foster ; The Mystic Pro- 

 perties of Numbers, by Etienne de la Roche ; 

 Sketch of Professor Felipe Poey, by Profes- 

 sor David S.Jordan; (With Portrait.) Ed- 

 itor's Table; Science and the Temperance 

 Reform ; Literary Notes ; Popular Mis- 

 cellany ; Notes. 



