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1
Month
July
Year
1885
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Miss Rose G. Kingsley, a dmighter o Charles Kinjtsley, contributcs the articl on " George Eliot's Oounty," Warwick shire, to the July üentury. George Ban crofl has writien for Uie same nuaiber a brief paper ii Henerv Clay, with anee dotes of Clay and Calhoun. "Canada's Destiny " is ably discursee In The Current f June 27, by AusaIoii Gieely. He wriles trom the unti-üiiuex Htlon standpoint, and ssi ks todis.bus the American iniiid of the ideas that Can ada has not progresad rapidly in civil zation, and that the temlency of srijti ment ia the Douiinion is toward annexutlon. Professor David Swing, in The Current of June 27, riles on "The Mor uf Architecture," his euggestions whicl ai e niarked by great piactical wisdom being addressed particularly to architect. who will go into their annual conven tuina tbis suuimer. He urges that the} " dress up out utility in beauty. ' Our Little Orns comes regular] y to ourtable, and is ahvays tilled with genis of thought and beHUti'ul pielures to chai m the eiirg and eyes of the childien. It la one of the best read magazine published, and does a great deal of good in the world. Hussell Publishing Co., Boston, Mass. The interest that children ofien take in mitter8 requiring patiënt research lias been again exemplilied by the receñí prize paire of " teet witliout owneis," in St. Nicholas. More than four thonsand children in this4 country and Gieat Britain studied over the puzzling feet and sent in lists of the animáis U which they judged them to betoog. It is suiprising limv near to accuracv were very many of the lists. Books of natural hlstory, cyclop."cdiH8 and dlctioDHi-je, even zi Slojfioitl collections, have lucn caiefully stuilied by the younjf investigators in their seaich for exu tness The correct unswers and the names of Uit contributors of successtul lists are to be iven iu the August öt. Nicholas. The tirst article in "The Popular Science Monthly " lor July, by Dr. Krank land, the eminent English chemist and iinitri .n, is very itnpoitant. It is on '4A Great Winter Sanilm iuin for the Amciicaii Continent." and is the result of Dr Frankland'a comparative stuiiy of the the 8wi8S Alps and the Y.llowstone region, which he visited expressly to determine its8anitary possibilities. "Rwent Progress in Aerial Navigation, by Prof W. Le Conté Stevens, an illustrated article, will be read with extreme interest on account of the late advances in this diffl cult but fascinating art. " Kailroads l'ele;rapl)8 and civilization," by Professor UaiZOKi gives a ma-terly ai;d original bandlingof a inighty problem - how theor great new agencies are reacting and are destined M further to react upon the constitution of modern society. New York: D. Appleton & Compauj'. Fifty cents i uumber, $5 a year. 8t. Nicholas for July has vpry properly a decided patriotic fiivor. The number opens with an inteisting sketch by Edward Eggleston, entitled "A School of Long Ago," which shows ustheodd methds ia which mine of our forefathers {ained their educatlon ; while in " Washnjrton's First Correspondence " we can read tlie first letter ever written by the Father of his Country; '"Among the Law nikers " contams an" instructive anil entertaining description of the organizalionof our National Government frorn tbc time that the bell of Carpenter's Hall rang out the good newa of the Dcclaration of Independence, which act is specially commemorated in a stirriujj poem, 'The Liberty Bell," by E. 8. Brooks ; iu ;he "Letter-box" are some spirited verse describing the heroic act of "Eliza ictii Zane,'' a brave American irl of the lden time; and in "A School afloat," Knsign Gibbon?, of the Navy, and Chas. [Jariiard explaiu how patriotic Aineiïchu boys are made iato practical Amer¦an sailors.

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