EDITORIAL NOTES. 



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Harper''s Monthly for September contains 

 the following articles : The Little Kings 

 and Queens — a poem ; The English at the 

 Sea-side; To-morrow at Ten; A Newport 

 Idyl ; Summering Among the Thousand Isles ; 

 The Widow Lee's Son, Will — a poem ; The 

 Girl's Sketching Camp ; An Old Fort and 

 What Came of It ; On Star Island — a poem ; 

 The Framing and Hanging of Pictures ; An 

 Artist's Reminiscences — II Adoniram Alge- 

 roy; Wheat Fields in the Northwest; At 

 Deacon Twombly's — a story ; The German 

 Empire ; The Chances of War, and How it 

 Was Missed ; The Chamber of Silence — a 

 poem ; A Laodicean. The number is fully 

 up to the standard. "Summering Among 

 the Thousand Isles " reads like a fairy tale, 

 and might be called a prose poem. Lotos 

 Land is the American Elysium for summer 

 tourists. " The Chamber of Silence " finds 

 an echo in the heart. "An Old Fort and 

 What Came of It " will be read with a deep 

 interest as being the unfolding historical 

 germ of William's College where Mark Hop- 

 Tcins has enriched the world by a life devoted 

 to the highest interests of man. 



The contents of the Atlantic Monthly for 

 September are as follows : Dr. Breen's Prac- 

 tice ; Kashchie the Deathless, or the Diffu- 

 sion of Fairy Tales ; Harvest Noon ; House- 

 keeping Hereafter; The Portrait of a Lady; 

 Post Prandial ; The Katrina Saga ; The Fu- 

 ture of Harvard Divinity School ; The 

 Dramas oi the Elder Dumas ; The Attempt 

 on the President's Life ; Mr. Howell's New 



Book ; The Rise and Fall of the Confederate 

 Government ; Some Recent Biographies ; The 

 English Colonies in A merica ; Transcend ental 

 Physics ; The Contributor's Club. One can 

 always afford to buy the Atlantic and take 

 his chances. Thepresentnumber is thought- 

 ful. We learn that Harvard's Divinity 

 School will " aim at retaining a positively 

 Christian, while it avoids a specifically de- 

 nominational character." The review of 

 Mr. Howell's New Book will attract atten- 

 tion. 



The North American Review for September 

 has the following articles : The Church, the 

 State and the School ; Natural Ethics; The 

 Monroe Declaration ; Shall Church Property 

 be Taxed ? Jewish Ostracism in America ; 

 The Decay of New England Thought ; Ghost- 

 Seeing and Factitious History. The leading 

 article by W. F. Harris, finds five provinces 

 which include a'l human education, viz: 

 The Family, the School, Civil Society, the 

 State and the Church. Each one has its 

 distinctive work, the article relegating our 

 ethical training to the church. The article is 

 clear and forcible, and will be widely read. 



The A?nerican Journal of Science for August 

 contains twelve papers with a large amount 

 of scientific intelligence. The papers of this 

 standard journal are based on original obser- 

 vation and experiment and it is refreshing 

 in reading it to come face to face with Na- 

 ture. This journal for many years has done 

 honor to American science. 



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! In Carroll Co., 111. — Incor- 

 porated in 1852, offers at- 

 tractions peculiarly is own, 

 -^ in. which originality it has no 

 peer. In thorough, practical, 

 common sense work it acknowl- 



t edges no superior. 



The "Oread," {the students journal) gives pdrticulars dnd is sent Free. 



