in obedience to the new version of the old world her borders during the first half century of her hisaxiom, RICHESSE oblige. tory, which may be called the formative period, were from Virginia. Her laws, customs and institutions, therefore, as well as her people, bear a striking resemblance to those of the mother State. No other State of the Union is so distinctively the offspring of another State. This striking peculiarity renders the study of the history of Kentucky exceptionally interesting. The author of the book before us, in order to give a clearer understanding of the forces which were chiefly instrumental in molding the character of the people of Kentucky, gives a brief but clear account of the first stages in the growth and development of Virginia. This is followed by chapters on "The Physical Condition of Kentucky," in which, and the succeeding chapter on "The Geology of WHETHER We agree with Mr. Beecher or not, few men can speak or write on any subject of public interest with so great a certainty that everybody will want to know what they say. In discussing the question as to how far ministers may properly go in politics-which he does in the North American Review for February-what the great preacher says is of interest, perhaps all the more because it is a matter that touches 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 Kentucky," the natural resources, the topographical New York lawyer, Roger A. Pryor; and a well-known journalist, William Purcell. The substantial agreement of four of them on the same point is significant. Another notable article in this unusually strong number is a review of " Holmes' 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," and Prof. G. Stanley Hall writes on New Departures in Education." features and geological structure of the State, are adequately explained. In the chapter on the "First Explorations of Kentucky," Thomas Walker is given credit for the first deliberate journey beyond the line of the Alleghanies. He traversed what is now central Kentucky in the year 1750, and made a record of what he saw and of the good opinion he formed of the country. In 1751 Christopher Gist visited the mouth of the Scioto, and crossed the Ohio, and explored the country as far as Big Bone Lick. The following is the narrative given of the adventures of Mrs. Mary Inglis, who was taken prisoner in Virginia by the Indians and conveyed to Kentucky whence she escaped : THE Inland Monthly (Vol. I, No. 1, received) published at Columbus, O., is a handsomely illus- "The first white woman in Kentucky was Mrs. Mary trated, neatly printed and ably conducted literary Inglis, nee Draper, who in 1756, with her two little periodical, whose merits entitle it to a long and pros- boys, her sister-in-law, Mrs. Draper, and others, was perous career, which we trust is in store for it. A taken prisoner by the Shawnee Indians from her number of persons of literary taste and abilities, home on the top of the great Alleghany ridge, in now notably W. Farrand Felch and James M. Kerr, have Montgomery County, West Virginia. The captives become sponsors for its right conduct, and will no were taken down the Kanawha to the salt region, doubt see to it that its bearing shall be dignified, its and, after a few days spent in making salt, to the behavior becoming, its conversation instructive, its Indian village at the mouth of the Scioto River, where growth constant, and its prosperity continuously on Portsmouth, Ohio, now is. Here, although spared the increase. The subscription price is $1.50 per the pain and danger of running the gauntlet, to year. Any person who will send us $5.00 will re- which Mrs. Draper was subjected, she was, in the ceive the Inland Monthly and the MAGAZINE OF division of the prisoners, separated from her little WESTERN HISTORY for one year. sons. Some French traders from Detroit visiting the village with their goods, Mrs. Inglis made some shirts out of the checked fabrics. As fast as one was finished, a Frenchman would take it and run through the village, swinging it on a staff, praising it as an ornament and Mrs. Inglis as a very fine squaw; and then make the Indians pay her from their store at least twice its value. This profitable employment 'KENTUCKY: A Pioneer Commonwealth.' By N. continued about three weeks, and Mrs. Inglis was more than ever admired and kindly treated by her captors. A party setting off for Big Bone Licks, on the south side of the Ohio River, about one hundred and forty miles below, to make salt, took her along, together with an elderly Dutch woman, who had been a long time prisoner. The separation from her children determined her to escape, and she prevailed upon the old woman to accompany her. They obtained leave to gather grapes. Securing a blanket, tomahawk and knife, they left the Licks in the afternoon, and to prevent suspicion took neither additional clothing nor provisions. When about to depart Mrs. Inglis exchanged her tomahawk with one of the three Frenchmen in the company, as he was sitting on one of the big bones cracking walnuts. They hastened to the Ohio River, and proceeded unmolested up the stream-in about five days coming opposite the village their captors and they had lived at, at the mouth of the Scioto. There they found an empty cabin, and remained for the night. In the morning they loaded a horse, browsing near by, with corn, and proceeded up the river, escaping observation, although in sight of the Indian village and Indians for several hours. was growing hopeless: her strength almost wasted away, and her limbs had begun to swell from wading cold streams, frost and fatigue. The weather was growing cold, and a slight snow fell. At length, after forty days and a half of remarkable endurance, during which she traveled not less than twenty miles a day, she reached a clearing and the residence of a friendly family, by whose kind and judicious treatment she was strong enough in a few days to proceed to a fort near by, and the next day she was restored to her husband. Help was sent to the Dutch woman, and she, too, recovered. One of the little boys died in captivity, not long after the forced separation; the other remained thirteen years with the Indians before his father could trace him up and secure his ransom. Mrs. Inglis died in 1813, aged eighty-four. Her family was one of the best, and her daughters married men who became distinguished." 'STUDIES IN SCIENCE AND RELIGION,' by G. Fred- rich. Books upon science and religion have been written in the main in such a spirit that they are of little use. Although the season was dry and the rivers low, The mere religionist has not done justice to science the Big Sandy was too deep to cross at its mouth; or its students, and on the other hand the scientific so they followed up its banks until they found a mind has not seldom taken refuge in too narrow crossing on the driftwood. The horse fell among views of the wisdom and grandness of that Creator the logs, and could not be extricated. The women whose works he studies. This book is written by a carried what corn they could, but it was exhausted gentleman who has been preacher at Andover, who long before they reached the Kanawha, and they is now the leading editor of the Bibleotheca Sacra, and lived upon grapes, black walnuts, pawpaws, and a professor of theology in Oberlin. His previous book, sometimes roots. These did not long satisfy the old 'The Logic of Christian Evidences,' is considered a Dutch woman, and, frantic with hunger, and expos- remarkably able and compact volume by the highest ure, she threatened, and several days after at twilight authorities of several denominations and coventries. actually attempted, the life of her companion. Mrs. But Professor Wright is also noted as a scientific Inglis escaped from the grasp of the desperate wo- man, who in certain fields of geological study has man, outran her, and concealed herself awhile under done great service. He has a love of induction and the river-bank. Proceeding along by the light of is not afraid to apply to religion the modes of investhe moon, she found a canoe-the identical one in tigation which obtain in nature. There are those which the Indians had taken her across the river five who feel more and more, year by year, that the same months before-halt filled with dirt and leaves, with- God intended nature and the Bible to be studied, and out a paddle or a pole near. Using a broad splinter in a degree the same mental and moral discipline in of a fallen tree, she cleared the canoe, and contrived the two. To their minds, the similarity of the Bible, to paddle it to the other side. In the morning the in its discipline, to nature, affords the strongest proof old woman discovered her, and with strong promises that it came from the hands of the same Creator. of good behavior begged her to cross over and keep Professor Wright does not say that is his experience, her company; but she thought they were more like- but his treatment of the subject shows his views of ly to remain friends with the river between them. the harmony of natural and revealed religion, makes Though approaching her former home, her condition a clear and able statement of the arguments and views of the Darwinians and their opponents. Both like better the long chapter in the book on Prehisparties must admit the force of his statements, and toric Man, and the final one in the relation of the the book excels in real and solid learning. One rises Bible to science. from it not feeling this is an ingenious presentation on one side, but that it is able and fair on both. He excels greatly in the power of analysis, which is precisely what the treatment of such subjects has lacked. The treatment of scientific method, Darwinism and final cause or design in nature, occupies two hundred of the four hundred pages in this small 12mo. Mr. Darwin himself said of the discussion herein of the relation of science and religion, "It seems to me powerfully written and most clear." On the other hand, the author's book, 'Evidences,' has been adopted as a text book in some thirty colleges and theo- book-fascinating, but not a romance. We think logical seminaries. The chapter on Calvinism the person who reads these Studies" will rise with He treats the history of prehistoric man with the same scientific fairness that, in short, he ought, but with which few do; and he evidently is not afraid for his Bible or his God. Presenting fairly the arguments for man's earliest appearance, he yet greatly shortens the usual supposed remoteness of the glacial period and glacial man, and few or none could speak better on this subject. The glacial period has been to him a favorite study for weeks and months together in the fields. He reads the force of the currents, which have been under the ice, as if it were an open and Darwinism is a most powerful exposi- new learning, broadened views, a fresh interest for tion of the essential similarity of the two, when both nature and the Bible, feeling as if he had in carried to the extremes claimed by the devotees of previous study overlooked much of absorbing interest each. In point of mental ability that is perhaps the in each.-[B. ablest chapter of the volume. Most readers will |