MAGAZINES FOR OCTOBER. 
Education. —An International Magazine. 
Bimonthly. Contents: Frontispiece, Educa¬ 
tion anrl Sanitation; The Loss and Recovery 
of Classical Manuscripts; The Teacher's Work 
in the Development of Mental and Moral 
Power; German Universities; Real Education, 
Its Principles and a little known Chapter in 
its History. Part III; Relation of Academic 
to Professional Work; Notes on an Infant; 
Kant and his English Critics; The National 
Council of Education; The Concord School of 
Philosophy; A Crisis in American History; 
Miscellaneous Notes; Bibliography of Educa¬ 
tion. 
German Universities. —What most strikes 
an American on visiting the German universi¬ 
ties or colleges—for this English distinction is 
unknown here—is, in the first place, the unpre¬ 
tentious buildings that are made use of. 
Though Leipzig is not a largo place, a stranger 
might walk through it from morning till 
night and pass and repass the university build¬ 
ings without ever suspecting that inside, in 
dingy rooms filled with the commonest wooden 
benches, the foremost men of Europe, in their 
departments, were lecturing to young and 
even middle-aged men from every quarter of 
the globe. With us, a magnificent pile of 
buildings is usually the first step in founding 
a university; the library, apparatus, and 
general inner economy being two frequently 
matters of secondary importance. The Ger¬ 
mans, on the contrary, rent or build a row of 
houses in a quiet part of the city, get to¬ 
gether all the books and manuscripts they can 
afford to buy, erect as many museums aud 
laboratories as possible, and offer perhaps 
modest incomes, but with a large liberty and 
man y privileges, to talented and enthusiastic 
men, irrespective of creed or politics, to come 
and further the cause of science and learning. 
In short, hero the instruction and intellectual 
advantages to be had make the university; 
there, in too many cases, the buildings and 
externals. What the Germans themselves re¬ 
gard as the chief characteristic of their sys¬ 
tem may be summed up in freedom of teach¬ 
ing, freedom of learning, method, and organ¬ 
ization.—James Washington Bell, iu educa¬ 
tion. __ 
Harper’s Magazine. —Contents: Frontis¬ 
piece, With Grandpa; A Berkshire Road; 
Journalistic London; The Peabody Museum 
of Archneology and Ethnology; Adirondack 
Days; Frederick A. Bridgman; The Telegraph 
of To-day; Cotton and its Kiugdoni; Anne. 
A Novel; Raldy. A Story of the W isconsin 
River; The Mormon Situation; “ Faint Heart 
ne’er Won Fair Lady;” A Laodicean. A 
Novel; Editor’s Easy Chair; Editor’s Literary 
Record; Editor’s Historical Record; Editor’s 
Drawer. 
Tub Measure of Bridgman’s Success.— 
It wns my fortune to watch the European 
career of Mr. Bridgman from its beginnings, 
and to have forced upon my notice the disad¬ 
vantages and the privileges that are peculiar 
to the Western Republican i» earning the con¬ 
sideration of the world of culture which ex¬ 
ists on the other continent. That world of 
culture, without meaning to do so, consti¬ 
tutes itself a close corporation. If the repub¬ 
lican aspirant acquires some traces of that ac¬ 
cent of civilization which is the freomasonary 
of tho educated circles, his accomplishments 
are his reproach. He is asked, if a painter, 
why he does not bring into tho world’s art- 
some national flavor, like the passion of Muu- 
kaesy, or the embroidery of Fortuny, in¬ 
stead of emulating the faded perfections of 
traditional art. He is charged to remain pro¬ 
vincial at his peril. If he insists on fulling 
into the lino of art-progress in its classical de¬ 
velopment, every merit he assumes is liable to 
be imputed as a fault, aud the suavities and 
accomplishments ho may acquire, such as 
would he recognized as perfections in tho Eu¬ 
ropean, are apt to ho blamed upon him as the 
little hypocrisies of the renegade. That the 
subject of this paper has conquered a marked 
place, not by insisting on his foreign accent, 
but by competing in those pure classical 
themes where all contestants are equal, is so 
much the more to his credit. It is a harder 
success than are tho common successes of 
what’may bo called dialect art, where only 
halt the merit is in the hard, uucompromising 
test of quality, and the other half is in the 
piquant strangeness which excites wonder, 
where the award Of popularity is given by 
those who can have no competence, merely 
because they are tickled, and not because 
they can judge of felicities and fidelities.— 
Edward Strnlian, in Harper’s Magazine for 
October. 
The North American Review. Contents: 
Some Dangerous Questions; The Elements of 
Puritanism; Tho State and the Nation; The 
Idea of the Uuiversity; Why Cornwallis Was 
at Yorktown; Shall Two States Rule the 
Union; The Ruins of Central America; 
Washington as a Strategist. 
Why Cornwallis was at Yorktown.— 
When Lord George Germaine waited upon 
Lord North with the news of the surrender of 
Cornwallis at Yorktown, on the 19th of Octo¬ 
ber, 17S1, the minister received it, Germaine 
says, as he would have taken a ball in the 
breast, and exclaimed: “ O God! it is all 
over!" It was not merely that a battle, or a 
town, or an army had been lost; it was the 
loss of the cause. The final military move¬ 
ment, which had been devised anti depended 
upon for the subjugation of tho American 
Colonies, had failed, and the British Empire 
was now hopelessly divided. 
No wonder that such intelligence came to 
Lord North like the blow of a bullet. The 
misfortunes of his country, even when they 
were not the result of his own stupidity and 
obstinacy, he could bear with the most good- 
natured equanimity; but this announcement 
of a disintegration of empire was the an¬ 
nouncement also of the defeat of party. Who 
could stop to think of the welfare of the people 
when a cabinet was in jeopardy? Had Lord 
North ever heard of that habitual prayer, 
through all those trying years of the Revolu¬ 
tion, of a country clergymen in Massachusetts 
—“ Deliver us, 0 Lord, from Lord North, the 
Flesh and the Devil!’’—ho would have felt 
almost ready to acknowledge that tho most 
earnest purpose of the petition had been lis¬ 
tened to and that Providence had gone over 
to the side of the rebels.—Sydney Howard 
Gay. in N. A. Review for October. 
Phrenological Journal.— Contents: John 
A. Broadus, D.D., portrait; Alaska’s Promise; 
Studies in Comparative Phrenology, chapter 
IX.; Form and Growth of the Head; Welsh 
Preaching and What it Did; Man and Woman 
in Society; Two English Queens—Margaret of 
Anjou, Elizabeth Woodville; On Hair; Young 
Folks of Cherry Avenue, concluded; Hypno¬ 
tism; Philosophy of Ruralism; Good Physi¬ 
cians; Notes in Science and Agriculture; Ed¬ 
itorial Items; Poetry; Answers to Correspon¬ 
dents; Personal; Wisdom; Mirth; Library; 
Publishers’ Notes. 
How the Swedes Warm their Houses.— 
Visitors to the Centennial Exposition at Phil¬ 
adelphia must remember the great porcelain- 
covered stoves which formed pari- of the Nor¬ 
way and Sweden exhibits. They attracted 
not a little attention, and should have taught 
our enterprising stove manufacturers a prac¬ 
tical lesson. It would appear, however, that 
they were regarded mainly as curiosities, and 
quite incompatible with our American spirit 
of enterprise. 
* * * “Tho fact is, that the American peo¬ 
ple are oblivious to tho frightful effects that 
come from their system of heating, and only 
become aware of its discomforts and dangers 
after passing a Winter with English grates or 
the ‘ kakelung.’ To return to the last-named 
system, a * kakelung’ is simply a great stove 
of masonry, covered with porcelain plates, 
having usually five flues, through which the 
gases of combustion must pass up and down, 
a distance of 30 to 50, or even 60 feet, before 
escaping into the air. Tho general principle 
of their operation is to provide enough mate¬ 
rial to absorb all the heat from the fire—to 
conduct the gases through these long flues un¬ 
til their temperature has fallen to a point that 
no longer gives off heat. The quantity of the 
material in the ‘ kakelung ’ is so great, that the 
temperature from one firing (which is always 
enough) will not raise the temperature of any 
part so much that the hands cannot be held 
upon the outside.”—Phrenological Journal for 
October. _ 
Appletons’ Journal. — Contents: Saints 
and Sinners, Part Fifth; Sketches and Remin¬ 
iscences by Ivon Tourgenieff; English and 
American English; French Intellectual Life; 
Byron, Gcetlie, and Mr. Matthew Arnold; An 
Adventure in the Philippine Islands; Two The¬ 
ories of Poetry; Tho Moiningen Company ami 
the London Stage; Lawn Tennis and its Play- 
era; Reviews; Editor’s Table; Notes for Read¬ 
ers. 
An Adventure in the Philippine Is¬ 
lands. —Have you ever met with a Spanish 
savant f Well, I admit the species is rare, but 
I knew one in Manila. His name was Don 
Inigo Azuola, and, in all my journeying? 
through the different parts of tho world, no 
more amiable a fellow has ever crossed my 
path. The name Azaola has been perpetuated 
in science by our countryman Meyen; but the 
splendid man who was attached to it has been 
sleeping these sixteen years on thu Campo 
Santo of Manila. 
It is twenty-six years now since I happened 
—no matter for what object—into Manila, a 
place which even now has many peculiarities, 
but which at that time bore a much more 
characteristic impresi of the mixture of Asiatic 
and old Spanish customs which a more lively 
intercourse with other nations lias since some¬ 
what worn away, but by no moans altogether 
effaced. 
I dabbled in botany a little at that time, 
ami old Don Inigo, who, with his scientific in¬ 
clinations, stood somewhat isolated among 
the good people of Manila, was charmed to 
have found in me some one who, like him¬ 
self, could grow enthusiastic over things upon 
which his countrymen looked down with sov¬ 
ereign contempt. He considered me entirely 
in the light of a plant, insisted that he had 
discovered me, and claimed tho right, as dis¬ 
coverer, of disturbing at will my matutinal 
slumbers for purposes of botanical exem*- 
sions, and appropriating my evenings for 
social intercourse.—H. II. Behr in Appletons’ 
for October. _ 
Atlantic Monthly— Contents: Dr. Breen’s 
Practice, VII., VIII.; Origin of Crime in 
Society; Carlyle’s Laugh; Martha; The Two 
Hamlets; The Portrait of a Lady, XLVII— 
XLIX.; River Driftwood; A Tropical Se¬ 
quence; My Neighbor’s Ring; The Katrina 
Saga, Part II.; Ts God Good? Place do la 
Bastille, Paris: Dean Stanley; Some Recent 
Novels; The Contributor’s Club; Book of the 
Month. 
Is God Good ?—A tendency to ask i"rever¬ 
ent questions is no sign of strength. It is 
wholesome for us, in this day of facile defiance 
and hard acceptance, to remember this. In 
an age which fails in deference, it is a health¬ 
ful thing to do, to summon our spiritual in¬ 
stincts to order. The bust of young Augustus 
in tiie shop window wears a lung protector; 
Clytio serves to advertise the “Boston bat¬ 
tery;’’ and positivist writers go out of their 
way to address Jehovah by the familiar pro¬ 
noun “you.” We have not passed the period 
when skepticism is more apt than not to he re¬ 
garded as a proof of superior intelligence, but 
we have reached the stage at which no intelli¬ 
gent mind can thus regard it without severe 
and honest study of its own motives. It is a 
lesson as old as Aristotle that philosophy is not 
the art of doubting, but the art of doubting 
well. 
While the inclination to irreverence, let us 
repeat, is no indication of mental robustness, 
the courage to question accepted doctrine may 
be not only a proof of devoutness, hut the con¬ 
dition of the profoundest submission to truth. 
This recognition of the inherent right of 
every man to have the reasou for what he be¬ 
lieves, and so shako his destiny by the shoul¬ 
ders till he gets such reasons, is postulated to¬ 
day, in educated thought.—Elizabeth Stuart 
Phelps, in Atlantic for Oct. 
Godey’s Lady’s Book.— Contents: Steel 
Plate, Scene from Sir Walter Scott’s “Tales 
of a Grandfather;” A Novel, Clara F. Guern¬ 
sey ; Shorter stories, poems and sketches, make 
the letter-press up to Godey’s high standard. 
The fashion illustrations are new and numer¬ 
ous, and all the departments are worthy of 
commendation. 
Estes & Lauriat’s Autumn Announce¬ 
ment has been received. It consists of a list 
of new books and new editions. 
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Send for the Fair Number of the Rural 
New-Yorker and the new poster for 1883. 
Both will be forwarded gratis to all appli¬ 
cants. 
Domestic 0conomaj 
CONDUCTED BV EMILY MAPLE. 
ECHOES FROM EVERY-DAY HOUSE. 
ANNIE L. JACK. 
I often try to imagine what my children 
would be if they had nothing to do. As it is, 
there is an excess of work these Autumn days, 
that fills every thought and hour. Cutting 
grapes, picking apples, taking up plants for 
Winter, and storing the vegetables must be 
done before frost. Already a cold snap the 
other night touched even hardy plants. The 
apple-tree leaves have curled up, the flowera 
that were left to brighten the Autumn days 
are scorched and withered, except a few hardy 
annuals. The children, too, feel the sudden 
change, aud we “ open the camphor trunk, 
and bring the mittens down.” Colds are so 
easily contracted after tho Summer heat, and 
the sudden changes of the past month have 
been very trying. 
In this locality while picking fruit we find 
the greatest difficulty' to procure help that will 
be careful in handling tho apples. So “papa” 
has hired the children, giving them 50 cents a 
day while the picking lusts. Even little "Hope,” 
who is only six years old, but strong and 
hearty, earns 35 cents daily by picking up the 
fallen apples. I think for children there is no 
gift of money so pleasant as money earned. 
The Rural is vory proud of its prizes no 
doubt, as given in a late paper, an 1 wo 
are proud of oura, for the children of Every¬ 
day House competed with the Province of 
Quebec in an exhibition open to the world, and 
were very successful. 
It would have amused an on looker to see 
the examination of grapes and apples, the 
profound air with which old and young con¬ 
templated specimens to get the best shaped 
aud largest, and the result was a number of 
first and second prizes. Then the amateur 
florist made up bouquets and a basket and took 
in three roses in pots, as well as native ferns 
and immortelles, besides 100 varieties of an¬ 
nuals as cut flowers, and came off with flying 
colors. First prizes were plentiful, and so were 
second, the money amounting to over $80, with¬ 
out speaking of a diploma or two, and the en¬ 
couragement given by these attempts. I think 
if farmers and fruit growers would encourage 
their young people to exhibit, giving them 
the prize money when won, it would do more to 
help the advancement of horticulture, and to 
foster the love for country life than all the 
essays ever written. 
One of our boys exhibited a collection of 
forest tree seeds, 86 varieties, all labeled and 
assorted into little boxes, that attracted a 
great deal of attention. They were shown at 
several places, receiving a diploma and ex¬ 
tra prize, and one of our horticulturists 
muting of them says: “ They drew a good 
deal of attention as a splendid idea not before 
thought of.” In these days of tree planting 
and nut sowing 'it is something to be able to 
show, to those who do not know, the germs of 
all the forest. 
These little things in every-day life help to 
make home happy, to employ the minds as 
well as the bodies of the children and to give 
them some aim in cultivation. And, mothers, 
when the children are troublesome, prepare, 
this Autumn, for them a piece of ground, tell 
them to save seeds, and when Spring comes, 
let them each have made choice of what they 
will grow tor profit and for the fair— send for 
catalogues during the "Winter; they help to 
educate the children, and I find nurserymen 
and seedsmen most obliging, always forward¬ 
ing their catalogues in answer to a postal card, 
and in a year when they accumulate I have 
found that a flfteon-oent box of paints will 
keep a three-year-old child quiet for hours— 
in coloring the pictured flowers of Henderson’s 
or Vick’s to suit its own taste. The Rural is 
doing a vast amount of good in distributing 
seeds to the children. Our campanulas, dian- 
tluis, gladioli, and many others received fron. 
it were valuable additions to the prize cut 
flowers. Make the children feel that they have 
an interest in the work, that they are partners 
in the farm, and will gain or lose by its profit 
or loss, and you hold the key that unlocks 
many difficulties, and explains much of the 
discontent that made Maud Muller “ look to 
the far off town,” and ho who penned those 
lines, the gentle poet Whittier, now an old 
man, wrote to me this past Summer that the 
happiest part of his life has been “ that spent 
in watching the growth of a tree or plant.” 
Such words are encouraging, they show there 
is something purer and better than the strug¬ 
gles for gain in the crowded city, and that a 
country life, made ns happy as it can be 
“ with content is great gain.” 
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DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
APPLE DUMPLING. 
Make crust as follows: Prepare and boil, as 
for eating, four medium-sized potatoes. When 
tender mash fine and to two cupfuls of pota¬ 
toes add the same quantity of sifted flour. 
Mix together with a chopping knife so as to 
keep light. Now add a cupful of butter and 
chop in with the knife. Add salt and mix to 
a paste with very cold water, doing all with 
the knife. Have apples chopped. Divide the 
paste, roll into squares, put. in the center of 
each some of the chopped apples, bring the 
corners together and pinch the edges. Have 
ready some small square cloths dipped in wa¬ 
ter and floured on the inside. Put a dumpling 
into each, leaving room to swell, tie up and 
boil an hour, serve at once. E. K. 
POTATO CROQUETTES. 
Two cups of cold, mashed potatoes, two 
beaten eggs, a tablespoon fill of melted butter, 
salt and pepper. Mix all together and form 
into oblong rolls. Dip into beaten egg and 
roll in cracker dust. Fry in drippings, or lard 
and butter. 
RICE CROQUETTES. 
Two cups of cold boiled rice, two beaten 
eggs, two tablespoonfuls of melted butter, a 
little salt and flour to form into any shape you 
please. Be careful not to get the paste too 
stiff. Roll in flour, then in beaten egg, and 
lastly in cracker crumbs, and fry in sweet lard 
or drippings. 
OYSTER PIE. 
Line a pie-tin with good paste, put into a 
brisk oven and bake until brown. Chop a 
quart of oysters, thicken a cupful of boiling 
milk with a small spoonful of corn-starch, sea¬ 
son with a spoonful of butter, salt and pepper 
to taste, put in the minced oysters, boil five 
minutes, stirring constantly. 
STEWED CELERY. 
Scrape and cut into inch bits. C’ook until 
tender in salted water. Drain off, add enough 
milk to cover the celery, let come to a boil, 
stir in a large spoonful of butter rolled in flour; 
season with pepper and salt, stew five minutes 
i longer and serve. Long Island. 
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Correction.— In the Rural of Oct. 15, p. 
707 appeared a recipe “To Wash Bed Flan¬ 
nel.” The word Bed should have been Red. 
