People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1895 — LITERARY REVIEW. [ARTICLE]

LITERARY REVIEW.

One of the best books of the year has just been received. It is from the trenchant -pen of Charles Howell ahd is entitled “Civilized Money.” It cuts deep and ably into the financial question and is a book that should be studied by every person in the land seeking information on this all important topic. It is a neatly r printed and illustrated book of nearly 400 pages and reflects great credit on the Cash Publishing cqiupany, 60 Monroe street, Grand Rapids, Mich., who will mail copies in paper covers at 25 cents each, or in cloth at 50 cents, or orders will be taken for the book at this office. * *

The first of Anthony Hope's new series of Zenda stories in McClure’s Magazine for August, reciting a heroic love passage between the beautiful Princess Osra and brave Stephen the Smith, is most charming. “The girl was young, and the dream was sweet,” and the story is in full accord with these attractive conditions. The new Jungle story by Kipling is also notable. Only one or two of the previous Jungle stories approach it in strength and ingenuity. It tells how Mowgli, under the shrewd directions of Kaa, the rock python, lured the Red Dogs of the Dekkan, whom' the Jungle feared ofeove all other creatures, to a destruction so complote that not one was left to tell the tale. In the same number are a story by Stanley J. Weymas, wherein good, hearty justice finally overtakes an oppressive tax-gatherer; and a California story by Bret Harte. Miss Tarbell supplies a very interesting account of Bishop John H. Vincent and his work in founding and developing the Chautauqua Assembly, and also of the wonderful growth and usefulness of that institution. Numerous, portraits and other pictures accompany the paper. The life of the circus performer, as it shows itself behind the scenes, is the subject of an illustrated article by Cleveland Moffett. Moltke’s manner of carrying on war is described by the English war correspondent Archibald Forbes from the writer's own observation of Moltke through the Franco-Prussian war, and from conversation which he himself held with Moltke on the subject. In illustration of the article there are historic battle scenes and some interesting portraits. The romantic story of the robbing of the Northampton (Mass.) Bank of upwards of a million dollars in money and securities, and of the long pursuit and ultimate conviction of the robbers, is related from the records of the Pinkerton detective bureau. * *

The Arena for August is filled with good reading, as usual. The most striking and important paper in the number—the one that will interest the largest number of men and women all over the country, is Mrs. Helen H. Gardener’s review of of recent age-of-consent legislation in the United States. She deals in this paper with the bills passed in New York, Arizona and Idaho, raising the age to eighteen, and analyses arguments for and against. This is the first of a series of papers giving the full history of the subject. The article is illustrated with portraits. Governor Levi P. Morton’s picture forms the frontispiece of the number. The Hon. Walter Clark, of the Supreme Bench of North Carolina, tells the history of the Telegraph in England as a department of the British postal system. The governmental operations of the telegraph therq has resulted in ten times as many messages, thirty times as many press despatches, at less than one third the cost under private administration, and the telegraph nets big receips to the government and makes its postal system complete and self-supporting as the American is not. Prof. George H. Emmott, of Johns Hopkins University, writes on “An Arbi-

tration Treaty between Great I Britain and the United States." Prof. Frank Parsons shows how the municipalization of Electric lighting would give the people more light, electric lights in all Homes and offices, and at | two-thirds less cost than now. This is an important collection of facts and statistics. Mr. B. O. Flower, the Editor of the Re* view, writes a stirring paper called “The August Present,” touching upon the social and intellectual movement of our times in religion, science and economic thoughts. A symposium of women, Lona I. Robinson, Altona A. Chapmau and Frances E. Russel, discusses the question of “Is the Single Tax Enough?” Rev. Frank Buffington Vrooman writes on “Public Health and National Defence.” Hon. John Davis, M.C., deals with the career of Napoleon from the Lombroso point of view, in a way different from the hero worship of the hour. Rev. W. E. Manley. D. D., considers “Human Destiny" from the point of view of orthodoxy. George Sidney Robbins discusses “The Middle Ground—which lies between philosophical anarchy and state socialism. A Member of the Order” writes of “The Brotherhood of India,” in criticism of Dr. Hensoldt. Poems anckstories are furnished by Will Allen Dromgoole, M. L. Wells and Annie L. Muzzey.