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but it offers a wide variety of unusually 

 readable articles. We are now so safely 

 over the crisis of the presidential election 

 that men of all parties can consider calmly 

 Bishop Huntington's essay on " Vituperation 

 in Politics," and it is to be hoped that what 

 they learn from it will not be forgotten four 

 years hence. Under the title, "The Ee- 

 united South," Henry Watterson presents 

 with great clearness the Southern and Demo- 

 cratic view of the political situation as it 

 now stands. This also is extremely interest- 

 ing to every citizen, whether he agrees with 

 Mr. Watterson or not. Another question of 

 universal concern, which some think will 

 soon make itself a national, issue, is that of 

 labor and its compensation *, and Col. Hinton, 

 in " American Labor Organizations," shows 

 with what equipment it will take the field. 

 But the article that the literary reader will 

 first turn to is Frederic Harrison's brilliant 

 and incisive discussion of " Froude's Life of 

 Carlyle;" while the religious or philosophical 

 reader will find in Courtney's " Socrates. 

 Buddha, and Christ," specific statements and 

 quotations of those parallel doctrines that 

 are so often vaguely alluded to. For the 

 scientific reader, Mr. Proctor discusses 

 learnedly " Herschel's Star Surveys," and 

 Prof. Le Conte presents and explains some 

 curious facts in relation to " The Evidence 

 of the Senses." Mr. Mulhall's paper on 

 " The Increase of Wealth " is a successful 

 endeavor to render large masses of figures 

 popularly intelligible. 



For some months past prospectors have 

 been at work on a coal shaft at St. Joseph, 

 Missouri, having sunk it to the depth of 

 nearly 1,200 feet. As we learn from the 

 Gazette., they are now in a dark, oil-bearing 

 sandstone formation and expect to strike oil 

 or coal very soon. All the strata pierced 

 have been found to correspond with those in 

 the coal shaft at Leavenworth, though much 

 thicker. So that the borers expect to find at 

 about 1,235 feet the same vein of coal that 

 has been so profitably worked in the former 

 city at less than 800 feet. 



The Atlantic Monthly for January, 1885, 

 starts off with a decidedly interesting table 

 of contents : The Prophet of the Great 

 Smoky Mountains, I, Charles Egbert Crad- 

 dock. A Canadian Folk-Song, William 

 Wilfred Campbell. Childhood in Greek 

 and Roman Literature, H. E. Scudder. The 

 H Malady in England, Richard Grant 

 White. A Marsh Island, I.-III, Sarah Orne 

 Jewett. The Christ of the Snows — A Norwe- 

 gian Legend, S. Weir Mitchell. A Salem 

 Dame-School, Eleanor Putnam.- A Story of 

 Assisted Fate, Frank R. Stockton. Madame 

 Mohl, her Salon and her Friends — First 

 Paper, Kathleen O'Meara. Winter Days, 

 Extracts from the Journal of Henry D. 

 Thoreau. A Country Gentleman, I.-III, M. 

 O. W. Oliphant. The Star in the East, 

 Harriet Prescott Spofford. The New Port- 

 folio, Oliver Wendell Holmes. Vedder's 

 Drawings for Omar Khayum's Rubaiyat. 

 Culture of the Old School. Recent American 

 Fiction. Studies of the Renaissance. The 

 Contributors' Club. Books of the Month. 



The Popular Science Monthly presents the 

 following table of contents for January : A 

 Olance at the Jury System, C. H. Stephens. 

 Agnostic Metaphysics, Frederic Harrison. 

 Last Words About Agnosticism, Herbert 

 Spencer. Influences Determining Sex, Prof. 

 W. K. Brooks. My Schools and School- 

 masters, Prof. John Tyndall. Gladiators of 

 the Sea, Frederik A. Fernald (Illustrated). 

 Studying in Germany, Prof. Horace M. 

 Kennedy. State Usurpation of Parental 

 Functions, Sir Auberon Herbert. Bloody 

 Sweat, J. H. Pooley, M. D. Protective 

 Mimicry in Marine Life, Dr. W. Breitenbach. 

 The Chemistry of Cookery, W. Mattieu 

 Williams. Advantages of Limited Museums, 

 Oscar W. Collet. The Architecture of Town- 

 Houses, Robert W. Edis, F. S. A. Mountain 

 Observatories. Sketch of Sir Henry Roscoe 

 (with Portr it). Editor's Table: Harrison 

 and Spencer on Religion; A Healthy 

 Materialism; Politics and Science. Literary 

 Notices. Popular Miscellany. Notes. 



