Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1885 — The Review for May. [ARTICLE]

The Review for May.

It is a curious fact that one of the most famous poems In our language appeared origiiufily in a magazine that seldom touches poetry at all, -and the. same periodical, after an interval of sixty-six years, now brings out another poem very similar in theme. Bryant’s ”T hanatopsis” was first printed in the North American. Review for September. -iBITF The Slay number of the Review, just out, has a poem by Robert Buchanan on “The New Buddha.” The critics found fault with Mr. Bryant’s poem on the ground that it was un-Christian: it remains to be seen what they will say' of Mr. Buchanan’s. The questions, “Has Christianity Benefited Woman?' is ably’ discu33od in this number by Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Bishop J. L. Spalding. President J. L. Pickard writes on “Why Crime is Increasing,” and David Dudley Field on “Industrial Co-operation,” while Pfof. Andrew E, West, of Princeton, contributes an article of groat clearness and strength on “What is Academic. Freedom i ’’ James Payn, the English novelist, discusses “success in liction,” and T. F.- Thiselton Dyer “Superstition in English Life.” The new department of Comments keeps .well np to the standard wilh Which it started.