greatest socures of power destroyed, but before Circulars of London, Eng., the able but wily | iticians would be unwilling to see one of their back. 'Whatever you may say in the papers, old gentlemen who holds the destinies of England in his hands is temporizing on the subject of Prohibition, as the temperance party is becoming somewhat of a political power, and is attached to the Radical wing of his following. Our London contemporary thus refers to the matter: Mr. Gladstone has lately made at Liverpool some observations which appear to have been designed to conciliate the teetotal party in that city. Their exact meaning is not, however, apparent. It is possible that the vagueness of the language used was not undesigned. Mr. Gladstone has heretofore on occasions used words the meaning of which is not clear. Again he has sometimes used language as free from ambiguity as possible. In 1867, for example, he said: "I am not a temperance man myself, and I do not approve of enforcing abstinence on others." But times change. Since 1867 the temperance party has become a political party, attached to the Radical wing of Liberalism, and the plain disapproval of their aims which Mr. Gladstone then expressed has to be toned down to a neutral, open-minded tint, susceptible of change in any direction as circumstances may require. MISCELLANEOUS. A MOTHER'S GRIEF. The New York State Court of Appeals last week affirmed the judgment of the lower Court in the murder case of Carlyle W. Harris. Consequently Harris, unless pardoned by Governor Flower, will be executed by electricity. The 'Harris case" is an exceedingly sad one. Harris is a young man (hardly older than twentyone), of excellent family. He was educated as a physician. He contracted a secret marriage with a Miss Potts. It was admitted by him NATIONALIZATION OF THE LIQUOR on his trial that he was actively engaged sowBUSINESS. THE ARGUMENT IN FAVOR OF THE SCHEME. Journal of the Knights of Labor (Philadelphia), Jan. 19.-Some of those who are news of the decision of the Court of Appeals: gentlemen, please don't say that I am brokenhearted; I am not. I am only'-and her voice shook-' only overcome for the moment. I was so sure! So sure!' And leaning heavily against the railings the black-robed figure walked unsteadily into the Warden's private room. Mrs. Harris will not return to Plain field at present. 'I shall stay near my boy,' she said." A ness was The following is one of Mrs. Hayes's letters to her husband: Keating] away when she wanted to come, WRONGED WOMAN'S SACRIFICE. At the trial of William B. Hayes for perjury in this city last week, some very pathetic testimony was presented. The complaining wita Miss Keating, the mother of Hayes's child. In the investigation of the charge of perjury brought by Miss Keating, much of Hayes's personal history was revealed. His wife clung faithfully to him throughout the trial, and did her utmost to ing his wild oats. His young wife died sud- clear him. It was, indeed, a signal and touchdenly, and Harris was accused of poisoning ing exhibition of woman's self-sacrifice, forher. He was convicted. The Court of Ap-giveness, and devotion. The wife (a childless peals, in affirming the judgment, was unani- woman) had long been cognizant of her husanxious for a union of the reform forces think mous. Although the evidence was wholly cir- | band's disloyalty, but for her love's sake had they see in the nationalization of the liquor business a common ground upon which the cumstantial, the Judge, declared that there was treated her rival kindly, had befriended her Prohibitionists might, without any desertion not a doubt of Harris's guilt-that he had and nursed her, and had even striven to get or surrender of principle and with great ad- deliberately killed his wife so as to rid himself possession of the child, so as to raise it and vantage to the cause they have at heart, meet of an incumbrance. Young Harris's mother, care for it as her own. the other reformers. Those who think this way argue that while this reform would be a refined lady, was fully convinced of his innoquite in harmony with the principle under-cence and had made strenuous exertions for lying the St. Louis and Omaha platforms, it him. The following is the story (from the New would be an immense step in the direction York World) of how Mrs. Harris received the of temperance, and as such would be acceptable to temperance reformers. By nationalizing the liquor business, or, to speak more accurately, placing it in the hands of the States and municipalities, the element of private profit would be eliminated. The agents of the State and municipality who would sell the liquor, having no profit on the sale, would have no inducement to promote drinking. There would be no longer a powerful liquor interest manipulating elections, controlling parties, and blocking the way of all temperance reform legislation. The sale of liquor could be placed under complete control and all needed regulations could be easily and certainly enforced, while the sale of adulterated liquors could be entirely prevented. It seems reasonably certain that not only would the total consumption of liquor by the present generation be greatly diminished by nationalizing the sale of liquor, but the good effect on succeeding generations would be even more marked. There are many who, while they realize the evils of drunkenness and would be glad to support any reform that would promise to eradicate or even diminish it, will not support a Prohibitory law; some because they do not Usually Carlyle will not permit his mother believe such a law, in the absence of a well- to remain with him longer than twenty minutes, nigh unanimous public sentiment in its favor, but yesterday the visit lasted nearly an hour. can be successfully enforced; others because When she had taken leave of her boy,' as she they think the interference with individual invariably calls Carlyle, Keeper Meegan inliberty involved in a Prohibitory law would informed her that several reporters were waiting the end entail greater evil than even drunken- in case she cared to say anything in regard to aess. It is argued that both these classes could the decision. She hesitated a moment. Then, MR. CLEVELAND'S DEMOCRATIC SIMconsistently support the proposed reform, for stepping forward, and with the tears falling there would be no great difficulty in enforcing over her cheeks, she said: it, and there would be no real interference with I will speak a few words to the gentleindividual liberty. It may be that the advocates men. I want to say that it is the newspapers of the nationalization of the liquor business are who have murdered my boy-yes, murdered, over-sanguine about getting Prohibitionists to that's the word-the newspapers and a false accept this measure. They urge, however, that jury and a false judge.' For a few moments for Prohibitionists to reject or refuse to support sobs and tears so choked her that she could not such a measure as this and continue a well-speak. Her face twitched, and she reeled as nigh hopeless agitation for Prohibition would though struck by a blow. But, mastering herbe to prefer agitation for the sake of agitation self again, she continued: to reform. No doubt the measure would meet I want to say this: On no account will we with the active and determined opposition of accept a remittance. It is not executive clemthe liquor manufacturers and dealers, but the ency we wish. It is not mercy, but justice, we argument would be on its side; the public demand. My boy is innocent! Innocent, and would quickly see that the measure would pro- | I know it. I know it as I know that this great mote its material welfare, while the public grief which the Lord has put upon us is only to conscience-which, let cynics say as they will, try us. But he is trying only pure gold.' is the greatest of all political forces when once aroused-would approve it. The machine pol-' "Mrs. Harris trembled so with excitement that she could hardly stand when she reached the City Prison about 3 o'clock. She knew nothing of the decision. The simple summons from her son did not tell her whether to hope or to fear. Swaying from side to side Mrs. Harris staggered rather than walked along the narrow corridor to the gate which Keeper Meegan guards. 666 I have a telegram from my boy,' she faltered. 'Is it a reversal?' It is the opposite, I am sorry,' replied the keeper. "My God, I cannot go through with it!' and with that the stricken woman burst into tears. She left a handbag with the keeper and was taken to her son. "The sobbing woman again started towards Warden Fallon's room, and again she turned with it. "I have felt, as the years have gone by, that your love for me has grown cold, and by this I hoped to bring it back as warm as it was in the old happy days, and my one desire was to make you happy. "I overlooked the fact that you had been untrue to me, in the hope that if I did this thing for your sake you would realize how great was my love for you, and would bring back the same love you used to feel for me when I ought to have known that when I built my nothing could tempt you to be unfaithful; but hopes of happiness on such a slender foundation I would be doomed to disappointment." PLICITY. left Lakewood yesterday morning, came to New York Sun, Jan. 20.—Mr. Cleveland New York, and took the 10: 30 Western express on his way to Fremont. Mr. Cleveland walked down to the station alone yesterday morning. He carried a small grip. He got to Liberty street at 9:25, and walked up to the Cortlandt street station of the 6th avenue road carrying his own grip. New York Herald, Jan. 20.-President-elect Cleveland left Lakewood yesterday morning to attend the funeral of ex-President Hayes. He arrived at Jersey City two minutes behind schedule time. The ferryboat Plainfield had been waiting some few minutes, so that when Mr. Cleveland boarded her every seat in the cabin was filled. As he passed through an elderly gentleman arose, lifted his hat, and offered his seat to the distinguished gentleman. | faculties remained good until the last, and she Buffalo Enquirer, Jan. 20.-"There she comes!" shouted Louis Goetz, who was the first to catch sight of the red eye of the engine as it swung around the curve at Jefferson street into the yard. The quondam companions of the President had already found the "Grassmere" [Mr. Cleveland's private car]. Louis was at one vestibule and Peter at the other. The Goddess of Fortune favored Peter, for he saw him first. "Here he is, Louis!" shouted the lucky one, and Louis came down with a bound. "Hello, Grover! we've been waiting nearly two hours to see you; you don't know how glad I am this night," cried Mr. Mergenhagen joyfully, as the President appeared on the platform sans topcoat and galoches. The President alighted and grasped Peter's hand warmly. 'Well, Peter, how are you? Louis, you have not changed a bit," and the faces of the men beamed with pleasure over the cordial greeting. At Mr. Mergenhagen's urgent request the party went to his place on Exchange street. The little reception committee was jublilant, and declared that they would not have missed the treat for $1,000. Visions of fishing excursions expanded in the mind of Louis Goetz, and he devoutly wished that by some miracle the distinguished visitor might forget his solemn duty, and instead of going to the funeral, might remain in Buffalo to know again in tales and reminiscences the joys of his life when but a Buffalo lawyer. only took to her bed a week or two ago, hav- "JOURNALISM." I met her yester The ac OBITUARY. PHILLIPS BROOKS. Christian Union, Jan. 28.-The death of Bishop Brooks is so personal a loss that it is difficult to write of him and his work with calmness. He was a great preacher because he was a great soul. His death is like the sudden disappearance of a familiar spring whereal we have been accustomed to quench our thirst; like the going out of a star which has been a light and a companion to a lonely watcher. He was great in just those elements which this critical and analytical age most needs-the spiritual and the synthetic. The world alternates between pulling its tools and toys to pieces to see how they are made, and lamenting because they are gone. Dr. Brooks was perceptive and constructive, saw with a spiritual vision and reported what he saw, was a messenger and a witness, was rich in all the elements of a noble life, and out of his richness imparted to others. Yet was he wholly freefrom the natural unsoundness of reaction against scholasticism, from the fads and fancies. and visionariness of an imagination not sobered and restrained by experience and observation. He was not the less sane because he was spiritual. Never did any age more need such a man. New York Herald, Jan. 20.-Mme. Eleonora Duse, the Italian actress, about whose movements there has been some doubts during the last few days, arrived here on Wednesday by the Majestic as Mme. Douse, and is now at the Murray Hill Hotel with her traveling companion, Miss Camilla Schmidt, of Dresden. Having witnessed many performances by the actress in Vienna and Buda-Pesth, where I met her, I recognized her at once among the guests yesterday morning. Her declared horror of interviewing and interviewers is notorious. Whatever may have been the cause of this extreme diffidence Mme. Duse has maintained it upon almost all occasions. His physical endurance seemed to know no day afternoon in the hotel elevator. tress was with her companion and walked fatigue; fast as his fires burned within him, he never appeared as one exhausted, and came slowly, leaning upon a cane and looking rather from his pulpit as fresh as he went into it. ill. Í ventured to recall myself to her and to His sympathies realized the experiences of ask her in Italian on which steamer she came all sorts and conditions of men; he was equaland how she enjoyed the trip. As a rule, greatly in touch with the scholar and the wageactresses are not averse to answering such Hattered. Mme. Duse is decidedly peculiar in this respect, and the stories concerning her are not exaggerations. No sooner had I spoken than she turned upon me with an anknow you; neither do I wish to know you. gry gesture and said in French: " Sir, I do not have received no callers up to now, and my desire is to receive nobody. On Monday night I shall appear in public, and I will be seen upon the stage. Away from that I do exist. I hope in the future to be left alone, Louis, old boy," said Mr. Mergenhagen to and I refuse to say what steamer I came on.' Mr. Goetz as they stood watching the slowly If Mme. Duse's horror of interviewers is asdeparting train, the beer that Grover drank sumed she is a great actress, for she made to-night was his own. It was made by the these few remarks in a tone and with a mancompany in this city in which Grover is a stock-ner that put the regulation interview quite out of the question. Buffalo Courier, Jan. 20. - As Mr. Cleve land mounted the steps of his private car, fol- questions. On the contrary, they are rather / earner, the recluse and the man of affairs, the lowed by his secretary, he said to Mr. Goetz and Mr. Mergenhagen: Boys, when you come down to Washington to attend the inauguration bring your wives along and stay with me for a few days." "I will! I will!" shouted both men as the train moved slowly out of the depot. "He's gone," said Mr. Goetz, as though awakening from a trance. He used to come to see me nearly every day, but he never will again, he never will again." holder. 44 DEATH OF A VERY OLD LADY. I He was experienced grandsire and the little child; and as treasures of mind and heart to enrich his mes sage of faith and hope and love. He possessed a subtile, suggestive imagination, but never used it for mere frescoes; a great heart and an overflowing sympathy, but never employed them for dramatic effect. L. Q. C. LAMAR. MR. CLEVELAND AND THE ITALIAN LABORPhiladelphia Times, Jan. 23.-In a little ERS.-When Mr. Cleveland reached Lakewood house in the northwestern portion of the city from New York at 6:05 to-night he found the died yesterday Mrs. Anna Catherine Sharp, stage from the Lakewood Hotel waiting to who had reached the rarely ripe old age of 114 take him to the Little Wnite House. A maid years, II months and 2 weeks. The old lady's from the cottage was also at the station, and age was not the only unusual feature connected she told Mr. Cleveland that Mr. Bayard, who was with the history of her life. In the house at expected, had not arrived. When Mr. Cleve Stiles and Nagle streets, in which she died, live land learned that Mr. Bayard was delayed, he at present her descendants for four generations, ordered the stage to wait, and began to walk all females, ranging from Mrs. Sharp's daugh-up and down the platform alone until the Philter, Mrs. Mary A. Smith, aged 74, to her great-adelphia train arrived. There happened to be great-grandchild, Katie Wetherill, aged 3 about twenty Italian laborers waiting on the months. Mrs. Sharp was born Feb. 5, 1778, platform to-night for the north-bound train. upon a farm situated where is now 9th and They were part of a gang employed upon the Cherry, and she was in the habit of telling railroad. As they stood together at one end New York Tribune, Jan. 25.—The death of stories of how she used to get lost in the black- of the platform, one of them recognized Mr. Justice Lamar, in a sense sudden, though berry bushes and briars that grew on 9th Cleveland as he got off the train, and said to lately apprehended by his associates, will restreet when she was a young girl. She the others: "Grovera Clevelanda." Every vive recollections of the great struggle in. distinctly remembered delivering milk to Gen- Italian in the group straightened up and looked which he was a conspicuous figure, but no biteral Washington and his staff, which she car-curiously at the next President. "How mucha terness of feeling. If he was not conspicuried from her father's farm to headquarters. he getta?" asked one of them. "Five tou-ously qualified for the Supreme Bench by Another interesting remembrance of hers was sand lire a week," said the first man, who learning and temperament, his rectitude and how the boys made great bonfires when Com- seemed to be the political authority for the sincerity were universally recognized in the modore Perry destroyed the English ships dur- gang. "He's the man what maka da mon," closing years of his life, and within the limits ing the War of 1812. Mrs. Sharp, who was said the others. Then when this citizen of the which physical infirmity imposed he more than born Miss Dowall, married John Sharp when United States who is soon to draw a salary of satisfied the expectations which his appointshe was 22 years of age. Her husband served 5,000 lire a week walked down the platform ment suggested. He was not a man of robust in the War of 1812, and died in 1849, at the age past the Italians, every one of them pulled off intellect, and his disposition was retiring and of 62. Up to the time of her death, Mrs. his cap and ducked his head. Mr. Cleveland contemplative, but he was not deficient in Sharp drew her pension as a soldier's widow, bowed and walked back. Again his walk moral any more than in physical courage. being the oldest pensioner upon the Government brought him past the Italians, and once more His tribute to Charles Sumner, at a time when roll. When the last Census was taken attention every man of them pulled off his cap. They the passions and prejudices of the war were was attracted to Mrs. Sharp, as being the old pulled off their caps and bowed every time he still potent, will always be remembered to his est inhabitant in Philadelphia, and she held passed.-Dispatch from Lakewood to the New honor. He died respected and esteemed by all quite a reception on her 112th birthday. Her York Sun. Jan. 24. his countrymen. Index to Periodical Literature. AMERICAN AND ENGLISH. BIOGRAPHICAL. Alexander III. (The Tsar). E. B. Lanin. Contemp. Rev. London, Jan, 24 PP. A sketch of his life, etc. Ariosto. Temple Bar, London, Jan., 9 pp. Bewick (Thomas). Mrs. Anne Ritchie. Macmillan's, London, Jan., 5 pp. Burns (Robert) at Kirkoswald. J, W. Oliver. Macmillan's, London, Jan., 6 pp. Curtis (George William), Recollections of. John W. Chadwick. Harper's, Feb., 8 pp. Illus. Jessel (Sir George), Master of the Rolls. Joseph Willard. Green Bag, Jan., 9 pp. With Portrait. Khan (Abdur Rahman), the Amir of Afghanistan. Sir Lepel Griffin, K.C.S.I. Fort. Rev., London, Jan., 16 pp. Men Who Reigned: Bennett, Greeley, Raymond, Prentice, Forney. (Journalist Michelangelo. Herbert P. Horne. Fort. Rev., London, Jan., 16 pp. Palmer (Samuel). Alfred T. Story. Temple Bar, London, Jan. Appreciative sketch of the celebrated landscape-painter. Seward and Lincoln, Recollections of. James Mattack Scovil. Lippincott's, Tennyson. Ella Macmahon. London Society, Jan., 9 pp. Whittier. Notes of His Life and His Friendship. Annie Fields. Harper's, Whittier (John Greenleaf). Mary Negreponte. Whittier, The Quaker Poet. Elizabeth Fyvie Noel. Leisure Hour, London, Almanac (An) of Three Centuries Ago. Gleeson White. Bookworm, London, Athens, The American School at. Second Article. Prof. Martin L. D'Ooge, University of Michigan. Chautauquan, Feb., 6 pp. Illus. Descriptive. Authors, Publishers, and Reviewers. Frederick Wicks. Nat. Rev., London, Jan., 11 pp. Byron, Unpublished Letters of. Bookworm, Lodon, Jan., 4 PP. Exhibits of the Nations. Richard Lee Fearn. Chautauquan, Feb., 6 pp. A Journalism as a Profession. M. de Blowitz. Contemp. Rev., London, Jan., 9 pp. Letters of a Man of Leisure (Edward Fitzgerald). Temple Bar, London, Jan., 14 PP. Lowell, The Poems of, With a Glance at the Essays. John Vance Cheney. Chautauquan, Feb., 9 pp. Niobe, A Colossal Statue of. Leisure Hour, London, 2 pp. Illus. Number-Forms. G. S. W. Patrick, Prof. Philosophy, State University of Iowa. Songs and Ballads (English). The Hon. Roden Noel. New Rev., London, Jan. 12 pp. Descriptive. Twelfth Night. IX. The Comedies of Shakespeare. Illustrations by E. A. Abbey, and Comment by Andrew Lang. Harper's, Feb., 12 pp. POLITICAL. Agricultural Union. The Earl of Winchelsea. Nat. Rev., London, Jan., 7 pp. Advocates the coöperation (especially political coöperation) of the agriculturists of the United Kingdom, for their common good. Earl Winchelsea's article is followed by one by George Byron Curtis (5 pp.), criticising it. "Does not this movement in favor of organization in agriculture mean Protection, and nothing else?" asks Mr. Curtis. Brazil, Politics and Finances in. By an Englishman. Fort. Rev., London, Jan., 11 pp. Canada, The Present Position of. Arnold Haultain. Westminster Rev., London, Jan., 10 pp. A reply to the article by Lawrence Irwell in Westminster Review, Sept., 1892. Church and Saloon as Political Antagonists. An address by John G. Woolley. Our Day, Jan., 7 pp. Civil Service Reform. Theodore Roosevelt. Chautauquan, Feb., 31⁄2 pp. Explains the system, etc. Cleveland's Election, and Its Effect upon the Future of the Negro. A Symposium. Frederick Douglass, T. Thomas Fortune, Bishop J. W. Hood, T. McCants Stewart, The Hon. B. K. Bruck, and John M. Langston. A. M. E. Zion Ch. Quar., Jan., 17 pp. De Lesseps and the Panama Canal Scandal. George W. Hinman, Ph.D. Chautauquan, Feb., 4 pp. Democracy, Disabilities of. W. Earl Hodgson. Nat. Rev., Lendon, Jan., 17 pp. French (The) in West Africa. Archer P. Crouch. Blackwood's, Edinburgh, Jan., 14 pp. France and the Papacy. C. B. Roylance. Macmillan's, London, Jan., 8 pp. Home Rule, Scotland's Revolt Against. R. Wallace, M.P. New Rev., London, Jan., 11 pp. A Scotchman's objections to Irish Home Rule. Home Rule, The Financial Aspect of. J. J. Clancy, M.P. Contemp. Rev., London, Jan., 12 pp. Discusses the clauses of the coming Home Rule Bill which deal with the financial relations between England and Ireland. India, The Russian Approach to. Karl Blind. Lippincott's, Feb., 6% pp. The danger threatening India. Ireland's Reply. John E. Redmond, M. P. New Rev., London, Jan., 6 pp. Criticises the Gladstonian Government. Militarism and Social Reform in Germany, Col. Franz Schumann. Chautau quan, Feb., 31⁄2 PP. Parliament (The English). Justin McCarthy. Contemp Rev., London, Jan., America, the Discovery of, Providential Preparations for. Prof. H. M. Scott. Our Day, Jan., 11 pp. Calls attention to events which seem to be providentially connected with the discovery of America. Apocrypha (The New). The Rev. Herbert Lucas. Month, London, Jan., 15 pp. Descriptive of the newly-discovered Gospel of Peter. Bible (the), Why Should I Study? W. R. Harper, Ph.D., D.D., Pres. University of Chicago. University Arena, Dec., 81⁄2 pp, Buddhism, A Bishop on. Prof. Max Müller. New Rev., London, Jan., 9 pp. Reviews the work of the Bishop of Colombo on Buddhism. Christ's Departure, The Expediency of. The Rev. George Matheson, M.A., D.D., F.R.S.E. Thinker, Jan., 7 pp. Exposition of St. Luke xxiv., 29: St. John xvi., 7-11. Christ (The Historical) and Modern Christianity. The Rev. Prof. A. B. Bruce, D.D. Thinker. Jan., 12 pp. Christians, Why Do Men Remain? The Rev. T. W. Fowle. Contemp. Rev., London, Jan., 9 pp. Analyses the ultimate reasons which impel men to accept or reject Christianity. Church of England, How She Washed Her Face. The Rev. Sydney F. Smith. Month, London, Jan., 18 pp. The Reformation in the Church of England. Church (The) and Temperance. The Rev. James C. Fernald. Hom. Rev., Feb., 7 pp. The drift of this paper is seen in the question propounded: Is the Church of Christ doing all it ought for the suppression of intemperance?" Church (The) in Wales. Arthur Griffith Boscawen, M.P. Nat. Rev., London, Jan., 11 pp. Ghost-Worship and Tree-Worship. Grant Allen. Pop. Sc., Feb., 15 pp. An examination of the "tree-spirits" of the mythologies, etc. Greece (Christian): Bikelas and the Marquess of Bute. John Stuart Blackie. Greek Church (the), The Divine Office in. Part I. The Rev. B. Zimmerman, Pantheistic Tendencies Unfavorable to Permanence in Creed. O. T. Lanphear, Poetry, What Can It Do for the Ministry? Prof. Arthur D. Hoyt. Hom. Rev., Feb., 5 pp. Points out the influence of poetry. Temptation Incident to the Ministry. The Rev. John T. Kerr. Hom. Rev., Feb., 4 pp. Training Men to Preach. Prof. E. G. Robinson, D.D. Hom. Rev., Feb., 5 pp. SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY. Esthetic Sense and Religious Sentiment in Animals. Prof. E. P. Evans. Pop. Sc., Feb., 9 pp. Various views of naturalists. Auriga, The Temporary Star in. The Rev. A. L. Cortie, F.R.A.S. Month, London, Jan., 20 pp. Biological Observatory (A Marine). C. O. Whitman, Head Prof. Biology in University of Chicago. Pop. Sc., Feb., 13 pp. Sets forth the needs of such an observatory. Electricity, Some Practical Phases of. Franklin Leonard Pope. Chautauquan, Feb., 4 PP. Faith-Cure (The). Prof. Charcot. New Rev., London, Jan., 14 pp. The distinguished scientist believes in Faith-Cure under certain limitations. Ghosts and Their Photos. The Rev. H. R. Haweis. Fort. Rev., London. Jan.,. 14 pp. Glass-Industry (The). XVII. The Development of American Industries since Columbus. Prof. C. Hanford Henderson. Pop. Sc., Feb., 12 pp. The history of the industry during colonial times. Himalayas (the), Ascents in. Edward Whymper. Leisure Hour, London, Jan., 4 Pp. With Maps. Human Origin, Problems of. The Rev. Frank Ballard, M. A., B.Sc., etc.. etc. Insanity, The Increase of. W. J. Corbet. Fort. Rev., London, Jan., 13 pp. Moral Forces, The Correlation of. Prof. William Knight. Nat. Rev., London, Pessimism and Progress. The Rev. S. A. Alexander. Contemp. Rez., London, Jan., 8 pp. The tendency of pessimism is to retard progress. Population (The) of the Earth. J. S. Billings, M.D., Surgeon U. S. Army. Chautauquan, Feb., 9 pp. Vivisection, The Benefits of. A. Coppen Jones. Fort. Rev., London, Jan.. 4 pp. Women, Clergymen, and Doctors. Canon Wilberforce. New Rev., London, Jan.. 11 pp. A reply to Dr. Hart's article in the December New Review. World (The Outdoor). Harlan Hogue Ballard, Ph.D. University Arena, Dec., 7 Pp. Observation of nature, etc. SOCIOLOGICAL. Baths (Public). The Hon. Goodwin Brown, Commissioner in Lunacy, New York. Charities and Correction, Separation of. Miss Rosalie Butler. Charities Rev., Farming (Profitable) and Employment of Labor. J. Boyd Kinnear. Blackwood's Edinburgh, Jan., 16 pp. Labour (Cheap), The Dearness of. David F. Schloss. Fort. Rev., London, Jan., 10 pp. Labour, The Social Condition of. E. R. L. Gould. Contemp. Rev., London, Jan. 25 pp. Mr. Gould was the President of a Commission to investigate the social condition of the laboring classes. Mobs. Blackwood's, Edinburgh, Jan., 17 PP. Monetary Conference (The). Bankers' Mag., London, Jan., 6 pp. Mormonism, Immigration, Sunday Newspapers. Joseph Cook. Our Day, Jan., 12 pp. Boston Monday Lecture. Peace (Industrial). Josephine Shaw Lowell. Charities Rev., Jan., 7 pp. Instances of successful understanding between the employers and employés. Pour-Law (A New). The Rev. J. Frome Wilkinson. New Rev., London, Jan., 14 pp. Suggest articles to be incorporated in a New Poor-Law. Race-Problem (The), Education to Prove its Rightful Solution. Prof. J. C. Price. A.M.E. Zion Ch Quar., Jan., 4 pp. Social Questions, The Relation of the Church to. The Rev. Prof. W. G. Blaikie, D.D., LL.D. Thinker, Jan.. 8 pp. Discusses the attitude of the Church in reference to-1. The Eight-Hours' Bill. 2. Wages and Strikes. 3. Land and Capital, Temperance Party (the Advanced), The Attitude of. W. S. Caine, M.P. Contemp. Rev., Jan., 14 pp. Argues in favor of prohibition. Temperance Reform, The Deadlock in. George Wyndham, M.P. With a Note by the Bishop of Chester. Contemp. Rev., London, Jan. Mr. Wyndham recommends, in substance, the Gothenburg system as a solution of the problem. UNCLASSIFIED. African Garden (an), In. London Society, Jan., r2 pp. Alexander the Great, The Tomb of. Rev. Haskett Smith. Macmillan's, London, Jan., 8 pp. Presents the reasons for believing that the tomb in the Constantinople Museum is really Alexander's tomb. Bear-Hunting in Russia. Temple Bar, London, Jan., 14 pp. Birds of the Grass Lands. Prof. Spencer Trotter. Pop. Sc., Feb., 6 pp. Illus. Descriptive. Bluebeard: The Maréchal de Retz. Belgravia, London, Jan., 17 pp. Bristol in the Time of Cabot. John B. Shipley. Harper's, Feb., 10 pp. Illus. Historical and descriptive. Decimal Coinage (a), The Advantages of. T. H. Perry Caste. Westminster Rev., London, Jan., 10 pp. Evidence, Practical Tests in. III. To Determine a Question of Race. Irving Browne. Green Bag, Jan., 4 pp. Garter-Snake (the), Habits of. Alfred Goldsborough Mayer. Pop. Sc., Feb., 4 pp. Illus. Descriptive. Gower Street and Its Reminiscences. Temple Bar, London, Jan., 9 pp. Great Wall (the), Under. A. Michie. Macmillan's, London, Jan., 7 pp. On the Great Wall of China. Medieval Country-House. Mary Darmesteter. Contemp. Rev., London, Jan., 22 pp. Historical and descriptive. Meuse Valley (the), In. Charles Edwardes. London Society, Jan., 15 pp. New Orleans, Our Southern Capital. Julian Ralph. Harper's, Feb., 20 pp. Illus. Descriptive. Philadelphia (New). Charles Morris. Lippincott's, Feb., 10 pp. Illus. Descriptive of new buildings, etc. Sicily, Byeways in. Lady Susan Keppel. Nat. Rev., London, Jan., 7 pp. Tierro Del Fuego. D. R. O'Sullivan. Fort. Rev., London, Jan., 18 pp. Descriptive of the land and its inhabitants. Turf (The) in Lord George Bentinck's Day. W. J. Hardy. Belgravia, London, Jan., 9 pp. Books of the Week. AMERICAN Alfred, Lord Tennyson. A Study of His Life and Work. Arthur Waugh, B.A., Oxon. Tait, Sons, & Co. Cloth, Illus., $3. Civilization and Progress. 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Stockbridge; Maine, Eugene Hale; Connecticut, Joseph R. Hawley; Tennessee, William B. Bate; Delaware, George Gray; Indiana, David Turpie; Pennsylvania, M. S. Quay... ......The New Jersey State Board of Agriculture meets in Trenton......The Insurance Tariff Association prefers formal charges against the Brooklyn Fire Department. The Khedive of Egypt yields to the demand of Great Britain for the dismissal of the newly appointed Ministry, and promises to appoint Riaz Pasha, who is known to be friendly to British interests, as President of the Council; Lord Cromer, the British Minister, secures from the Khedive a promise that hereafter no alteration in the Ministry would be made without consulting Great Britain...... Dr. Lieber, leader of the iberal wing of the Clericals, speaks against the German Army Bill before the Reichstag Commission.... Four meetings are held, in Berlin, by the Social Democrats......Seven deaths from cholera are reported in the lunatic-asylum at Halle. Thursday, January 19. In the Senate, the Anti-Option Bill is discussed; Mr. Wolcott introduces an amendment to the Silver Purchase Repeal Bill......In the House, several amendments to the Interstate Commerce Law are passed; Tammany representatives oppose the Quarantine Bill......Many tributes of respect are paid to the memory of ex-President Hayes......The Illinois Supreme Court reverses the lower courts in the Cronin cases and grants a new trial to Coughlin, the surviving convict......The National Woman Suffrage Association closes its Convention in Washington......Governor Flower sends several nominations to the State Senate......Judge Bartlett, of Brooklyn, renders a decision which seems likely to put an end to the claims of Patrick J. Gleason to the Mayoralty of Long Island City......Three persons are killed and eight wounded in a collision on the Pennsylvania Railroad near Marion, N. J..... The prosecuting committee in the Briggs case decides to appeal to the General Assembly. The French Ambassador in London sends Lord Rosebery a note saying that France could not remain indifferent to an act tending to infringe the Khedive's independence......The Panama Investigating Committee continues to take testimony......In Brussels, a large body of unemployed are charged and dispersed by gendarmes as they were entering the Bourse; many are hurt. Friday, January 20. The Senate adjourns on account of the funeral of ex-President Hayes...... In the House, the Deficiency Appropriation Bill is reported, after which an adjournment is taken......The funeral of ex-President Rutherford B. Hayes is solemnized at Fremont, O.; many distinguished men attend......A bridge over the Wabash River at Peru, Ind., collapses, precipitating a train into the rlver; two people killed, and many seriously injured.. ...Hugh F. Dempsey, District Master Workman of the Knights of Labor, is found guilty as indicted in the trial of the Homestead poisoning-case... The National Board of Trade ends its annual session at Washington......In New York City, the Manhattan Elevated Road's plan of rapid transit is submitted to the Commissioners. ...... M. Andrieux refuses to say before the Panama Committee whose name he cut out of the list of 104 Deputies which he showed when he was examined in December; Dr. Herz is arrested in England......The report of a reconciliation between King Milan and Queen Natalie is officially confirmed. Saturday, January 21. In the Senate, Mr. Wolcott attacks the Columbian postage stamps; the Anti-Option Bill is discussed and goes over without action.....In the House, the National Quarantine Bill is discussed and goes over without action...... In a collision on the "Big Four" Road near Alton, Ill., nine persons are killed, twelve fatally injured, and about one hundred others burned by oil.....Seven people are injured in a wreck on the Pennsylvania Road near Harrisburg. .In Long Island City, Gleason yields to a show of force, and Horatio S. Sanford takes possession of the Mayor's office......The French steamer Bretagne carries from the port of New York $4,300,000 in gold. It is said that at a private examination M. Clemenceau denied all knowledge of bribery by Dr. Herz or any other person...... Mr. Asquith, English Home Secretary, says the plan of Home Rule for Ireland will be on Liberal lines. .James Francis Egan, an Irish dynamiter, is released from Portland prison......Seventeen new cases of cholera are reported at the Neitleben Lunatic-Asylum, in Germany. Sunday, January 22. Chief Executive Officer McNaughton, of the New York Board of Managers of the World's Fair, says that the work on the State's exhibit is well advanced, and gives reasons for the appropriation of an additional $300,000. .Bishop Dowenger, of Fort Wayne, dies. In Rome, an attempt is made to blow up a hotel with dynamite......The defiant actions of the Khedive increase the excitement over Egyptian affairs. ......A Cabinet crisis is thought to be impending in Portugal. Monday, January 23. In the Senate, the Cherokee Outlet Bill and the Anti-Option Bill are discussed; it is agreed to vote on the latter next week......The House passes the Quarantine Bill after a stormy debate; the Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill is discussed......A substitute for the Constitutional Convention Bill is passed by the Senate at Albany; it allows each of the two great political parties to choose sixteen delegates-at-large......Dr. Phillips Brooks, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts, dies in Boston......Associate-Justice L. Q. C. Lamar, of the United States Supreme Court, dies at Macon, Ga. It is announced that the British Government will increase its forces in Egypt; a long Cabinet Council is held in London: France maintains the Khedive's right to choose his Ministers......It is said that the Panama Committee's sub-committee has discovered enormous frauds among the records of syndicates which helped to float the Panama loans; the report of the autopsy on Baron Reinach's body leaves the cause of death uncertain. Tuesday, January 24. Both Houses of Congress meet and adjourn out of respect to the memory of Associate Justice Lamar......The Assembly at Albany passes Senator McCarty's Bill legalizing the expenditures of Brooklyn officials......United States Senator Stewart, of Nevada, is reelected from that State; ballots for Senators are taken without results by the Legislatures of several other States. The funeral of Justice Lamar is appointed for Friday; that of Bishop Brooks for Thursday...... The Annual Convention of the National Farmers' Alliance opens in Chicago; only three States represented......In New York City, the Rapid Transit Commissioners inform the Elevated Road people that their plan is not satisfactory. Lord Cromer informs the Khedive that England will reinforce her garrison in Egypt; the Khedive's hostility to England is said to show no abatement. ...M. Stephane repeats his charges against M. Clemenceau before the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry......Eighty miners are killed and many injured by an explosion of fire-damp at Dux, Bohemia......Duke Albrecht, of Wurtemburg, and Archiduchess Margaret Sophie, are married in Vienna, DICTIONARY-MAKING. MEMORANDA FROM THE EDITOR'S NOTE-BOOK. FUNK & WAGNALLS' STANDARD DICTIONARY THIS DICTIONARY WILL EMBODY MANY NEW PRINCIPLES IN LEXICOGRAPHY; AND WILL CONTAIN NEARLY 2,200 PAGES ABOUT THE SIZE OF THIS PAGE; OVER 4.000 ILLUSTRATIONS, MADE ESPECIALLY FOR THIS WORK; OVER 200,000 WORDS; NEARLY 100,000 MORE WORDS THAN IN ANY OTHER SINGLE-VOLUME DICTIONARY. PRICE WHEN ISSUED, $12.00. AT $7.00 TO ADVANCE SUBSCRIBERS. One Dollar Extra Discount to Subscribers for "The Lit The Present Confusion in Reference to the Writing of Compound Words-These Terms to be 'Thoroughly and Systematically Treated in the Standard Dictionary-The System Universally Commended-The Definition of Calendar, with Table of Hebrew Months, etc. Some time ago we issued a circular requesting the opinion of a large number of writers, educators, and others, in reference to the proper occasion for writing compound words, and their judgment concerning the use of the hyphen for connecting the parts of such words. We received many answers, one of which, from a school superintendent, was: "I do not know anything about it, and I do not believe any one does." It is strange, but true, that this frank acknowledgment represents in effect nearly all that was said in hundreds of letters, all from people who should know. It is a much stranger fact that this feature of the English language is so confused in literature as to justify our correspondent's assertion. The subject has been very closely studied, however, by Mr. F. Horace Teall, the editor in charge of that department of the Standard Dictionary, who is also author of "The Compounding of English Words." This class of words should be thoroughly and systematically treated so as to secure the correct form in each case; and the method pursued in this Dictionary is really systematic-the only systematic method ever attempted. Mr. Teall's system has been approved (in many cases enthusiastically) by a large number of eminent authors, educators, and proofreaders, whose criticism we have invited. We know of no disapproval from any one who is competent to speak with any recognized authority. The Definition of Calendar. of The natural division of time into night and day, lunar months, seasons, and years, hus, of course, been noted from the earliest times, and by all peoples, however primitive, but no nation or people not considerably advanced in civilization and knowledge has devised a systematic method of so naming and ordering the days and months that any given number of them shall form a definite period, corresponding to the observed annual recurrence of the seasons. Since the beginning history, many and varied systems have been employed, and our own nearly perfect method of enumerating time is of comparatively recent. origin. The most noteworthy methods of recording time of interest to the general public are those mentioned in the following definition of calendar, which we find in the M8. being made ready for the Standard Dictionary. Bible students who wish to know about the time of year to which reference is made in numerous passages of Scripture will be much pleased with its table of the Hebrew months. [NOTE.-Definitions which appear from time to time in these columns are covered by the copyright of the Standard Dictionary. These definitions have not passed their final revision.] calendar, n. 1. A system of fixing the order, length, and subdivisions of years and months so as to define the dates of events; as, the Gregorian calendar. erary Digest." Satisfaction guaranteed. See Acceptance Blank below. The period of seven days was used by the Brahmins in India with the same denominations employed by us, and was alike found in the calendars of the Jews, Egyptians, Arabs, and Assyrians. MARY SOMERVILLE Connection of Physical Sciences $12, p 80. [H. '53.] 2. A table or series of tables giving the time of sunrise and sunset, and of other astronomical phenomena for each day of the year. 3. A table showing the days or dates of the months numbered in their order; especially, a table showing the dates of exercises or observances for the year; as, a church or university calendar. 4. A schedule or list of anything; as, a calendar of causes for trial in court. He keeps a calendar of all the famous dishes of meat, that have been in the court ever since our great-grandfather's time. BEAUMONT and FLETCHER The Woman-Hater act i, sc. 1. 5. A sculptured or painted emblematic series of the months. 6. A guide for conduct. -Calendar Amendment Act, an English statute providing for the adoption of the Gregorian amendment of the Julian calendar. Passed in 1751, it went into effect on Sept. 3, 1752, which day was by its provisions reckoned as the 14th to cancel the 11 days' difference between the old and new styles. It further transferred the beginning of the new year from March 25 to Jan. 1, commencing in 1753. Called also Lord Chesterfield's Act.-c. clock, a clock which, in addition to the ordinary time-recording functions, notes the days of the week, month, or year, the movements of the heavenly bodies, etc.-c. month or year, a year or month as defined in a calendar, especially the Gregorian calendar.-Gregorian c., the calendar prescribed by Pope Gregory XIII., by which the Julian calendar was modified by calling Oct. 5, 1582, Oct. 15, and continuing the count 10 days in advance, aud by making the terminal years of the centuries, 1700, 1800, 1900, etc., common years of 365 days, except when the year was a multiple of 400, as 1600, 2000, etc. Called also new style.-Hebrew c., the calendar reckoning from the assumed date of the creation of the world, or 3,760 years and 3 months before the birth of Christ: in use by the Jews since the 2d century of the Christian era. Its origin is involved in some obscurity, and it is subject to much change and adjustment by intercalary methods to accommodate the feasts and fasts, and the coincidence of certain months with certain seasons, as the identity of the month Abib with the harvest of barley. Its principal periods are the cycle, of 19 years; the year, either ordi -Julian c., the calendar prescribed by Julius Cæsar, in which 3 years of 365 days each were always followed by one of 366 days, and the months, after some changes made by Augustus as to their number of days, had the length now adopted in Europe and America. Called also old style.-Mohammedan c., the calendar used in Mohammedan countries, reckoning time from July 16, A.D. 522, the day following Mohammed's flight from Mecca to Medina (the Hegira). The year consists of 12 lunar months of a mean duration of 29 days, 12 hours, and 44 minutes. A cycle consists of 30 years, of which 19 are ordinary years of 354 days each, and 11 are embolismic, with 355 days.-Newgate c., see the quotation below. The Newgate Calendar, or Malefactor's Bloody Register, containing Authentic and Circumstantial Accounts of the Lives, Transactions, Exploits, Trials. Executions, Dying Speeches, Confessions, And other Curious Particulars, Relating to all the most notorious Criminals, and Violators of the Laws of their Country, who have suffered Death and other Exemplary Punishments, in England, Scotland, and Ireland, from the Commencement of the Year 1700, to the Present Time. Newgate Calendar title-page. -Republican_c., the calendar instituted on Oct. 5, 1793, by the first French republic, and abolished Dec. 31, 1805. Its scheme divided the year into 12 months. of 30 days each, with 5 extra days (Sansculottides) at the end of the last month (Fructidor). The months were divided into three decades, every tenth day being a day of rest, Sundays being ignored. Provision was made for sextile years by adding one day to the Sansculottides every fourth year. The calendar was retrospective in action, and its first year (I.) commenced Sept. 22, 1793. The months and their corresponding periods in the Gregorian calendar are as follows: nary or embolismic, containing 12 and 13 lunar months Our Special Advance Offer, soon to cease, is clearly shown by the following ACCEPTANCE BLANK, or days; the month, of 29 or 30 days; and the intercalary month, occurring only in the embolismic years, and containing 29 days. Each cycle contains 7 embolismic years. The adjustment of the months as above indicated precludes the comparison of the Hebrew months with those of the Gregorian calendar except by approximation, based which please read, sign, and return, or a copy of it: on an average. The following table gives the results of such an average, with the lengths of the respective months in days: MESSRS. FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY, 18 AND 20 ASTOR PLACE, NEW YORK. I accept your offer for a copy of your Dictionary (bound in sheep), and herewith forward you ONE DOLLAR in part payment for the same, and will forward you the remaining SIX* DOLLARS when yon notify me that it is ready for delivery. It is understood that if I am not satisfied with the work I shall be at liberty to send it back within three days after I receive it, and you will return my money. Signed... P. O........ 29 30 29 30 29 29 April. May. 30 30 June. Tammuz or Tamuz.. 29 29 Ab.. 30 July. August. Date... 29 29 Sept. Elul ........ (a). The additional Adar or intercalary month. (b). One day more if required. (c). One day less if required. .State.... *If you are a subscriber for "The Literary Digest " cancel this SIX by writing over it the word FIVE. Two dollars extra will be charged if wanted in two volumes. 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