September Magazines The Forum review summary
The Forum’s September issue features Thomas Hughes on The Lost Leader from the Unionist Irish question, praising its protest against Gladstone’s irrational admiration. It includes Washington Gladden on Can Our Social Ill Be Remedied, Henry George’s Mistakes by Thomas G. Shearman, The Outlook for Industrial Peace by A. T. Hadley, Facts About Trusts by Charles F. Beach Jr., and Goldwin Smith on The Spoils of Office, whose pessimism on civil service reform is noted.
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Thomas Hughes
Gladstone
Washington Gladden
Thomas G. Shearman
Henry George
A. T. Hadley
Charles F. Beach, Jr
Goldwin Smith
Popular Science and Holmes in September Magazines
A Boston observation reviews September issues of Popular Science Monthly and Cosmopolitan. It highlights David A. Wells and Huntington Smith on economics and protection, Oswald on modern civilization, Philpott on property rights, Huxley on witness value, and fiction by Edgar Fawcett. It praises Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, noting his age, vitality, and role as poet and essayist linking Boston's life to his work.
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Popular Science Monthly
David A. Wells
Huntington Smith
Oswald
H. J. Philpott
Huxley
Lippincott
Edgar Fawcett
George W. Childs
Philadelphia
C. C. Binney
Jahan Magnus
Cosmopolitan
New England Conservatory of Music
Japan
F. 8. Carpenter
Colombian Republic
W. E. Saltus
Carmen Sylva
Roumania
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Ticknor & Fields
Holmes
Tennyson
German mobilization talk hinted by Cologne Gazette
The Cologne Gazette warns of a German budget push for military funds as the Reichstag may be asked to vote more money. The piece notes German taxpayer patience and suggests the Socialistic movement could gain fresh momentum. It recalls earlier military zeal waning after years of peace.
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Cologne
Bismarck
Reptile
Reichstag
Germany
Protective industry plan aims to cut wages to meet European levels
Representatives of protected industries admit their wage plan reduces pay to match Europe’s pauper industry. Andrew Carnegie reportedly cut employee wages, and John F Plum mer, wool association manager, now advocates higher tariffs and wage revision to align with European rates. Plum mer will attend next month’s wool manufacturers meeting in the city.
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Europe
Andrew Carnegie
John F. Puemmeer
Wool Association
Plans for World’s Fair display and tariff reform stance
Edward Atkinson proposes a major World’s Fair concept showing industrial arts and national methods with main and auxiliary buildings and space for maps and materials. Ohio Democrats adopt a bold tariff reform platform and civil service reform, contrasting with Republican silence.
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New York Chamber of Commerce
Edward Atkinson
Atkinson
New York
City of Paris Sets Speed Record For Short Route
The steamship City of Paris broke the western record by three hours forty nine minutes, placing five hours ahead of rival Etruria. Three runs over three days yielded a peak of 509 knots, still two knots shy of her best day last May, with favorable weather and a short course. The six day limit was reduced by nearly six hours, though the full significance is tempered by the brief voyage.
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Paris
Etruria
Ocean liner speeds shrink crossing times to hours
The article notes a passenger’s near record pace allowing breakfast in London and dinner in Boston in the same week. It compares the City of New York’s six days four hours five minutes eastbound with the Teutonic’s Queenstown arrival fourteen hours after, showing ocean passages now differ by hours, not days, though not a definitive speed test.
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London
Boston
New York
Teutonic
Queenstown
Grand Army Encampment at Milwaukee Faces Controversy
The Milwaukee gathering of Grand Army of the Republic veterans draws large crowds and notable figures like General Sherman and Mrs Logan, but the national encampment scrutiny centers on Commander Warner and pension policy. Critics warn that pushing for broader pension rights could harm the organization's integrity and public image. The piece contrasts social festivities with political aims, calling for cautious leadership and conservative aims to avoid mendicant pension schemes.
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Grand Army of the Republic
Milwaukee
General Sherman
Logan
Clara Barron
Atgrerr
Order
Tanner
Commander Warner
Grand Army Organization
Congress
Union ‘Army
Navy
Sholder
Grand Army
Waalner
Tan- Ner
Dr Holmes at Eighty in Boston Laureate of the City
The article marks the eightieth birthday of Oliver Wendell Holmes praising his global literary standing and strong local Boston color. It notes his fame in poetry and prose, contending no other figure in Boston offers such pride to its people.
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Old South
The
Common
Boston
Dr. Holmes
Horace
Holmes
Sugley
Dr. HolmgEs
Elsie “Venner
Oliver Wendell Holmes
World of Letters
Lord Tennyson
Dr. Hoymes
The Preparatory Schools and Higher Education
The article argues that as higher education evolves the fitting school must align with college aims. It warns that expanding elective work risks weakening core discipline and urges a focused set of representative studies. Four knowledge areas nature language mind and history should guide secondary education.
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Lapp
Scribner’s
G. ‘Tl
Lapp of
Yaie
Nelson Biographer and Society News Roundup
A mix of notices and society items. Notables include Mr. Clark Russell on Lord Nelson, Count Andrassy’s health improving, KE S Wiggins to be knighted, Jay Gould’s travel plans, Denman Thompson’s wall in West Swanzey, and Harvard’s Shaler delivering at Dukes County fair. Passenger list for City of Paris includes Russell B Harrison and Andrew Carnegie. Various royal and diplomatic movements touch Denmark, Sweden, Russia, and Greece. Church and legal appointments noted.
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Count Andrassy
KE. S. Wiggins
Canada
Jay Gould
Denman Thompson
West Swanzey
N.S. Shaler
Harvard University
Dukes County Agricultural Society
Paris
New York
Liverpool
Russell B. Harrison
Andrew Carnegie
Lord St. Cyres
Lord Iddesleigh
Magdalen
Gordon
Society of the Army of the Cumberland
Chattanooga
Rosecrans
Sweden
Cannes
Baden
Rivieramm
Frederick
Capo di Monte
Naples
Humbert
Chateau
Caserta
Charles Newton
Mitylene
Rome
M. W. Adams
Congregational Church
Hopkinton
N. H
Andover Theological Seminary
Atlanta
Denmark
Fredensborg
Russia
Greece
State Bar Association
L. B. & J. M. Kellogg
Bible House
Caracas
Venezuela
William M. Patterson
Methodist Episcopal Church South
Mexico
American Bible Society
Maracaibo
Milan
Cantoni
Africa
Aden
Massowah
North American Review editorship shifts with mixed reception
From the latest issue the North American Review is edited by General Lloyd Bryce after a reestablishment by Allen Thorndike Rice. Bryce pledges continuity, with improved tone avoiding sensationalism. Frederic Harrison writes on The Transformation of Paris while General John Pope defends spoils system views as common sense. Other pieces include Wolseley's Civil War papers Hawley's exhibition reflections and Hubbard on public libraries.
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THE
North American Review
Lloyd Bryce
Allen Thorndike Rice
Iis
Bryce
Frederic Harrison
Paris
John Pope
United States
Viscount Wolseley
Senator Hawley
Army Lieutenant Benham Relieved for Sept. 13 Union College
First Lieutenant Henry P. Benham of the Second Infantry is relieved from duty at Union College Schenectady New York and will rejoin his company on September 13.
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Washington
Henry P. Benham
Union College
Schenectady
N._Y
Watchman Dies After Elevator Fall at Lorraine Mill
Samuel Mitchell watchman at the Lorraine Mill Pawtucket fell down the elevator well last evening and died from his injuries in Providence R I on August 28.
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Providence
R. 1
Samuel Mitchell
Lorraine Mill
Pawtucket
Scribners September listing mixed with Lang Dumas essay
The September Scribner’s features Andrew Lang on Alexandre Dumas and collaboration, noting Dumas’s method of discussion with aides and drafting briefs. It praises other pieces including The Fitting School in American Education, Justin McCarthy’s Dream Heroines, and T. Russell Sullivan’s Out of New England Granite, plus Stevenson and Harold Frederic works, poetry, and engravings.
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Scribner’s
Andrew Lang
Alexandre Dumas
Duimas
Dumas
Justin McCarthy
Sally
Inez
Annabel Lee
T. Russell Sullivan
New England
Nepigon
R. A McDonough
W. Hamlton Gilson
Keats
W. W. Kundall
U.S.N
Robert Louis Stevenson
Ballantrae
Harold Frederic
Zoe Dana Underhill
Charles Henry Lnders
Duncan Campbell Scott
Edith Thomas
Mr. Liders
Remains of Marceau Exhumed at Nice Pantheon
At Nice workmen raised a tomb slab and uncovered a broken red earthen urn and a white china vase filled with earth and coal. An oblong leaden box inscribed General of the Republic was found, and M Noel Parfait claimed it on behalf of the government.
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Marceau
Pantheon
Nice
M. Noel-Parfait
Petit Marseillais
Hit
Republic
M. Noel- Parfait
Prose Fragments and Portraits of Wit Across Varied Tales
A collage of anecdotes and squibs recounts comic misadventures and curiosities. It notes drinkers misbehaving, literary critics, a maid turned waiter, Edison at Paris Exposition, a wax effigy uproar in Paris, noisy resorts, a bridal rice mishap, a flawed lead pencil claim, and a door of misfits in Hamilton and Texas. It includes a London hotel anecdote from Larry Jerome and a prosaic warning about prohibition towns, finished by a scottie tale of a Trinity tutor mistaken for a thief.
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Edison
Boulanger
Paris
Hamilton
Ont
California
Bleecker
Caliornia
Zeb
Squar
der Cort
Isaacs
Saacs
Joblot
Larry Jerome
New Yorker
London
Register
Susanna Richardson
David Richardson
Limington
Texas
Tam
Lord Byron
Trinity College
Edinburgh
Scott
Scotland
Summer Comes With Hay Fever Ode
A light verse from the Omaha World-Herald notes summer arrives with blue skies and ripe orchards yet warns hay fever will sour picnics. It laments birds, harvest, and swallows returning, and the autumn frost kissing pumpkins as sneezing fades with the season.
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Omaha World
Public disgrace over Tanner hero of Milwaukee encampment
The Grand Army faced harsh criticism for elevating Tanner to a great hero at the Milwaukee encampment while General Sherman is sidelined. The author denounces the official for swaggering nationwide and scornfully branding detractors as whelps, claiming the government is disgraced.
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Grand Army
Tanner
Milwaukee
Sherman
Platherskite
LN. Y. Evening Post
Ind
Governor Foraker Faces Political Storm Over Virginia Platform
The Virginia Republican State convention’s ticket includes three rebel brigadiers and a platform offering sympathy to ex Confederates. The situation may anger Governor Foraker in Ohio, who has shown strong anti Confederate sentiment and could oppose Mahone’s faction.
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Foraker
Ohio
Mahone
New Haven Register
Grand Army's Opportunity at Milwaukee Session
The Grand Army encampment in Milwaukee could influence pension law reform. If led by those seeking only surplus distribution, sober citizens may ignore it. if it targets correcting faults for disabled and necessitous veterans, it could win nationwide support.
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Grand Army
Milwaukee
Philadelphia Ledger
Parnell’s Reception in America Predicted to Be Warmer
The Philadelphia Press suggests if Charles Stewart Parnell visits America in the fall, he will receive a stronger, more devoted welcome than before. Supporters, now more numerous and loyal, rally to his vindication of charges by Tory conspiracy and his leadership in the liberty and justice cause.
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Parnell
Philadelphia Press
The Treatment of John Roach
The article condemns John Roach as ruined and murdered for political gain by a treasonous administration. It laments a naval inquiry and the $10,000 ruin price, arguing heirs deserve contracts for new ships to be earned by payoffs and favors.
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John Roach
Providence Journal
Ind
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