Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1885 — The Review for February. [ARTICLE]

The Review for February.

Whether we agree with Mr. Beecher or not, few men can speak or write on any g übject of public interest with so gre at a certainty that everybody will wan tto know what they say. In diacussing the question as to how far ministers may properly go in politics,— which he does in the A'orth American Review t or February,-the great preacher shows himself to advantage perhaps all the more because it is the matter that touch cs him personally as well as professionally. In the same number of the Review, the question. “How shall the President be Elected ?” is ably treated by five happily chosen writers, viz., two United States Senators, Dawes and Vance; a college president, F. A. P. Barnard, of Columbia; a New York lawyer, Roger A. Pryor; and a well known journalist, William Purcell. The snbet antial agreement of four of them on tbe same point is significant. Another notable article in this unusually strong number is a review of “Holmes's Life of Emerson,” by the veteran historian George Bancroft; and still another is an essay by Prof. C. A. Young on “Theories regarding the Sun’s Corona,” which he skillfully brings within popular comprehension. The Rev. Dr. W. G. T. Shedd defends the dogma “Endless Punishment' 1 , and Prof. G. Stanley Hall writes on “New Departnreain Education. ”