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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
May
Year
1886
Copyright
Public Domain
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Sarah Orne Jewett, gone South on account of bad health, contributes an illustrateil Bailad to the June Wide Awake, entitled "Vork Garrisou, 1640." Mrs. Susan Archer Weiss furnishcs the June Wide Awake with a dellghtful page of Folk-lore, interestin;? to all antiquarians, eutitled "The ïrue Bo-Peep." Thomas Nelson Page, the author of "Marse Ghan," one oi' the most popular storle8 printed of hite years, will publish tlie loujjest story he has yet written, in the June Century. It is entitled "Meh Lady: a story of the War." The romantic and affectiiifr narrative is put in ttie tm ui t li of old Billy, an ex-slave, and it is illustrated with three designs by W. T. Sniedley. The Popular Science Monthly for May contalns a very able opening article by Mr. Arthur T. Hadley, of Yale College, on "The Diflicultles of Railroad Kegulation." He points out what tilines are required of a system, and then shows demonstrably that those desirable ends are go in conflict with each other that they can only be parlially secured, and at the expense of one another. He deals with railroad management as a scieutitic problem, and bis paper is both very instructivo and higbiy important. The Hon. David A. Wells has a second article of his " Econouiic Study of Mexico," whicli is charao terized, like the previous one, by a fullness of new informatlon - the result of a careful and intelligent study of Mexlcan affaire on a side that has before been but slightly investigated - and the clear preM'iitatioii of it. " M. de Candolle on the Production of Scientiflc Men " is a review and sutninary of the conclusions which have been reached by the illustrioug Swiss philosopher after his careful study of the conditions - of climate, nationullty, social influences, heredlty, education, religión, and political environment - wliich favor or impede the genesis and growth of men addicted to original studies in science. Pertinent to the educatlonal diecussion II also Mr. Sully's article on the " Development of Moral Faculty." Mr. Einhorn's "The Problem of Cr)tallizaion" makes a pialo presentation in a clear, familiar style of the subject, whicli is usually made knoltv with technicalities of the manner in wliich the crystallzing forces Iwork to produce rejrular fonns. Mr. Joseph Dawson describes, in a matter-of-fact style, " How Alcoholic Liquors are made" in actual practice; nd iu doingso furnishes an article of interest to men on eveiy side ot the temQcrance question.

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Ann Arbor Courier
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