Editorials

It is always curious to see how many literary birds are hit with one arrow. In the May Journal was an article headed, Not One Jot or Tittle.

When the press is gagged, liberty is besieged; but when the press assumes the liberty to lie, it discounts clemency, mocks morality, outrages humanity, breaks common law, gives impulse to violence, envy, and hate, and prolongs the reign of inordinate, unprincipled clans. At this period those quill-drivers, whose consciences are in their pockets, hold high carnival.

Heretofore Matt Morgan has been known only as a painter of admirable theatre scenery; but now he comes before the world with a big Scriptural picture, thirty or forty feet wide, and as high as two or three men. In it are hundreds of people.

In The Interior, Dr. William C.

The following correspondence speaks for itself. Mrs.

There is a text in the Old Testament, part of which is commonly translated thus: "So plain that he who runs may read;" whereas, here is the true reading of the passage ( HABAKKUK ii. 2 ), as everybody may see by looking it up.

Criticus , who writes this piece, has enjoyed some experience in various walks of literature, and has seen himself in print once a week, or oftener, during the last quarter-century. One of his oldest and best friends was John Wilson, the author of the famous Treatise on Punctuation.

It was fitting that Munkacsy's ( Moon -catch-y's) great picture should open its exhibition, at the old Old South, on Good Friday, — the accepted anniversary of Jesus' death. A wonderful picture it is, greater than his Christ before Pilate, which Boston enjoyed last season.

Venus is said to be brighter now than it has ever appeared to any man now living. The distance from our earth to the sun has been calculated to be ninety-five millions of miles.

Under this title a paper called New Christianity, published at Germantown, Pennsylvania, reprints with approval a card written by Caroline L. Fletcher, Principal of Saint Joseph Metaphysical Institute, which thus sets forth her views: 1.