People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1895 — The Arena for September. [ARTICLE]

The Arena for September.

The September Arena opens with a vivid description of the wordy battle now being waged in the legislatures over the agitation for raising the age of consent. The facts are marshalled in order by Helen H. Gardener, the well-known and popular novelist, and deal this month with the arguments, pro and con on the recent legislation in Nebraska. Colorado and Missouri, where the age has been materially raised. Prof. Joseph Rodes Buchanan, whose portrait forms the frontispiece of the number, contributes a striking and valuable article on “The Marvels of Electricity." In his paper called “After Sixty Years," Mr. B. 0. Flower, editor of the Arena, touches upon the disillusions of the career of the reformer, and tells of the career of one who in a lifetime of sixty years' service has not lost faith in humanity, James J. Clark', of California. Stinson Jarvis tells “How Evolution Evolves." Henry Wood, the author of “Natural Law in the Business World,” and other popular metaphisical works, writes on “Omnipresent Divinity," Prof. Frank Parsons, Law Lecturer at the Boston University contributes his second study of the “Economy of Municipal Electric Lighting.” He shows the enormous saving to the taxpayers and diffusion of public benefit which would result from public ownership ''of electric lighting. His comparative statistics can not be refuted. A symposium of clergymen and other writers deal with Prof. George D. Herron and his work. Dr. Herron has created a great stir by • his teaching in the west, and he has been bitterly assailed for some of his views of social Christianity. These gentlemen defend his position. They are Rev. J. R. McLean. Rev. W. W. Scudder, Jr., Rev. J. Cummings Smith, Rev. J. E. Scott, Elder M. J. Ferguson, Rev. R. M. Webster and James G. Clark, the poet. The Hon. John Davis writes on the career of Napoleon Bonaparte from the psychological point of view, and condemns him as simply a criminal genius, utterly worthless to humanity. F. W. Cotton discusses “The Labor Exchange,” and Rev. Dr. Marion D. Shutter deals with “Progressive Changes in Universalist Thought.” The Books of the Day, World of Books and Practical Progress Notes complete an excellent and wellbalanced budget of good reading.