ILLINOIS.

WEST of New York there is no literary monthly published. Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, all buy their magazine literature from the East. Western writers of ability have long felt the need of this enterprise. If it is not made a success, it is the fault of Western scholars and authors. We most heartily recommend this magazine to young men and young ladies. Subscribe for it; read it; give its publishers your best thoughts, and help to make it a success.-Daily Pantagraph, Bloomington.

UPON a cursory examination of its literary merits, we are satisfied that it is in really good hands.-Democrat, Alton.

THE magazine is printed in the finest style of the "art preservative," and we commend it to our readers as eminently worthy their patronage.— Northern Illinoian, Wheaton.

AMONG its contributors are some of the leading literary men and women of the West, and we feel safe in saying that the WESTERN MONTHLY will be just what we have long felt the need of, a publication which has for its object the development of Western enterprise and intellect.-New Era, Carbondale.

CHICAGO is the center of almost numberless literary enterprises, but none that we are more heartily in sympathy with than a movement just put on foot for the publication of a monthly magazine. The first number is out, and in point of mechanical execution, as well as the character of its contents, it is a most creditable beginning. We hope it may have the patronage that will make it as good a magazine as any in the country. The West has the talent to make such a magazine, and the enterprise deserves to be supported by our people.Central Illinoian, Beardstown.

AS THE object of this new publication is to furnish a medium for the development of Western literary talents, it should and must receive a support that will enable its publishers to successfully compete with their Eastern contemporaries. We believe that the West, superior in enterprise and progressive ideas, is not deficient in esthetical and literary tastes. We have men and women of large brain, fine culture and splendid attainments, whose writings will not be excelled anywhere for chasteness, purity of style, and solidity. With their assistance, we cannot see why a Western magazine should not be more attractive to Western men and women than any of the Eastern publications. Then, let us give the WESTERN MONTHLY a helping hand, so long as it is a true representative of Western character.-Sentinel, Woodstock.

THE Contents of the first number are of a first class character, biography, science, history, fiction and poetry each finding a place in the well-filled pages.-Union, Rock Island.

We have before us the first number of this new candidate for public favor, and, after a careful perusal of its contents, we have no hesitation in awarding it a conspicuous place among the leading publications of the country. In its chief features, however, the WESTERN MONTHLY has broken ground and occupies a field entirely and exclusively its own. Its table of contents is rich and sparkling, varied and interesting, healthy and useful. The Great West should feel a pride in the new magazine, and manifest a becoming interest in its prosperity.-Democrat, Centralia.

WE welcome it as an encouraging sign in the literary firmament of the West. We have newspapers in profusion, but too few magazines devoted to solid literature.- Weekly Leader, Bloomington.

"EDUCATION of the Heart," by Schuyler Colfax, is a golden article, worth alone the price of the magazine. Journal, Nashville.

INDIANA.

IT is worth a place on every center-table in the northwest.-Republican, Williamsport.

Ir is neatly printed, and gotten up with excellent care and taste, and its contents are well worth perusing. We wish the new enterprise success. Being a Western production of great merit, it should be handsomely sustained.- Examiner, New Castle,

THE number we have seen gives promise of usefulness to the reader, as well as prosperity of the publishers. There is no reason why a publication of this description may not be a success in the West. The field is wide, and heretofore has been unoccupied.-Plaindealer, Wabash.

THE initial number is filled with well written and carefully selected articles, the most prominent of which is a lecture by Hon. Schuyler Colfax, on the "Education of the Heart," accompanied with an autograph letter.-Plaindealer, Anderson.

MICHIGAN.

We hail with pleasure the advent of a new magazine called the WESTERN MONTHLY, devoted to literature, biography and the interests of the West, the first number of which has been issued this month by Reed & Tuttle, of Chicago. There is no good reason to be assigned why we should be "provincial" and buy all our literature at the East; and, with the list of contributors already secured by the editors, the WESTERN MONTHLY seems destined to supply a want long felt by Western readers.-Eagle, Grand Rapids.

WE rejoice to see an effort made to develop Western talent, and trust the undertaking will prove decidedly successful.-Herald, Bronson.

It is nicely printed and well filled with instructive and interesting reading matter.-Demoocrat, Grand Rapids.

OHIO.

THE article entitled, " Education of the Heart," by Hon. Schuyler Colfax, is one of the finest things we ever read-nothing nicer appears in any of the Eastern pnblications, (and we have most all of them on our table,) than this article; nor is this the only one that is meritorious.-Union, Port Clinton.

THE literary matter is high-toned, and written by the most popular authors in the land.-Union, Wapakoneta.

THE publishers are entitled to the thanks of the reading public for publishing Schuyler Colfax's address on the "Education of the Heart," delivered at the commencement exercises of the Aurora (Ill.) Seminary. This address alone is worth a year's subscription to the magazine, independent of the many other good things published in the first number.-Chronicle, St. Clairsville.

MISSOURI.

WE have received the initial number of this new withcandidate for public favor, and we must say, out disparaging the claims of others, the WESTERN MONTHLY is a superior publication, both in matter and appearance, and supplies a want long felt of a number one magazine published and sustained at the West. A glance at the contents, of which we give below a synopsis, will satisfy any one of the fact that topics of no small importance are to receive treatment in its pages, upon which is engaged some of the finest literary talent, of both male and female, the West affords.-Gazette, Brookfield.

IT is the very thing that is needed. It is well gotten up, and ably edited. We have examined it with much pleasure.-Eagle, Booneville.

THOSE who desire a magazine, equal to the Atlantic in many respects, and superior in some respects, should at once subscribe for the WESTERN MONTHLY.-Times, Weston.

IT presents a neat and finished appearance, and is filled with choice and instructive reading. It is devoted to the interests of the West, and will supply a want long felt by Western readers.-Herald, Shelbina.

WISCONSIN.

THIS magazine fills a vacuum that has long been felt; a journal devoted to the interests of the West and Western men, edited and compiled with the ability of European or Eastern periodicals. No man who recognizes the influence of hightoned and progressive literature, should fail to support this able journal.-Post, Appleton.

ITS literary merits are of the first water, and cannot but help being recognized as a first-class Western production.-Ledger, Sun Prairie.

We take pleasure in recommending the WESTERN MONTHLY to our friends as being a very useful publication. Its literary contents outvie any enterprise of the kind in the Western States. The best, and a really well written article, is the notice It of "Hawthorne," by Rev. Robert Collyer. would do credit to any periodical, wherever published.-Democrat, Madison.

IOWA.

WE are glad to welcome this new monthly to The West has now that degree of our table. wealth, culture and independence which will render it safe to depend upon it as a supporter of a monthly magazine devoted to literature and sci

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Heretofore we have depended upon the East, even as in earlier periods the whole country depended upon Europe, for its literature. hope this magazine will receive the support it merits. The finest article of the whole number is the critique of "Hawthorne," by Robert Collyer.Republican, Toledo.

THE number before us is a model of typographic neatness, gotten up something after the style of the Atlantic Monthly, and is teeming full of interesting and instructive matter. The West should sustain a magazine of its own, and we trust the WESTERN MONTHLY will receive that liberal patronage which this, the initial number, indicates it is every way worthy of.-Times, Cedar Rapids.

We have long felt the want of such a periodical, and in this our wants are supplied. The WESTERN MONTHLY should be in the hands of every Western reader.-Herald, Carroll City.

ITs corps of writers already includes many of the best in the country, and to literary persons in all callings it will be a valuable visitor.-Sentinel, Osceola.

Ir is a literary gem, and should be well sustained.-Gazette, Cedar Falls.

THE magazine shows a strong hand and, we presume, will add another to the list of really successful periodicals.-Tribune, Denver City, Col.

THE first number surely promises well, and makes a good show of Western vim as well as Western talent.-Liberal Christian, N. Y. City.

THE articles are a credit to the literature of any country. The January number gives promise that the task proposed will be ably and thoroughly performed. Western people are large-hearted and liberal and they cannot fail to give this new, commendable and needed enterprise, a more than liberal support. Begin with the first number.-Republican, Vermillion, Dakota, Ter.

THERE is no other magazine in the West of like classical character and pretention, and we hope that this literary enterprise of the Mississippi valley will meet with a welcome and encouraging reception. Journal, Fremont, Ohio.

Ir is worth the money. The twelve numbers bound will make a pretty volume of readable matter.-Constitution, Warren, Ohio.

THE first number, though by no means up to what the publishers intend to make the magazine, is a very creditable production. With both the publishers of the WESTERN MONTHLY we have the pleasure of personal acquaintance. We hope their new enterprise will meet with liberal and substantial encouragement.-Gazette, Rockford, Ill.

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HE astronomical observatories of the world, about one hundred in number, are divided into three classes. The first class includes government institutions proper, like those of Washington, Greenwich, Paris and Pulcova, near St. Petersburg. Many-indeed, most of these are on a very large scale; have very many instruments of the first class, especially meridian instruments, and employ the services of a numerous staff of astronomers. The second class is of observatories, like our own, attached to universities, or governed by boards of trustees, similarly constituted. These institutions are both scientific and educational, and have in fact, as a class, taken the lead in advancing the technical part of astronomy, in training observers, and preparing men to undertake the duties of astronomers in the richer and more extensive, but generally less progressive, establishments under government patronage. The rule is, without exception, that no observatory which is not at the same time an astronomical university - which does not teach both the principles of higher mathematics and the general outlines of astronomy itself, together with the special modes of using instruments—

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will be permanently celebrated by anything more than a mere accumulation of facts, and these, too, generally illworked up.

For instance, the whole present system of observing astronomy grows out of the work done since 1814 by Bessel and Struve, at the two universities of Koenigsberg, in Prussia, and Dorpat, in the German province of Russia. The most celebrated astronomers now living —Airy, Argelander, the younger Struve, Hansen, Le Verrier-have studied in the school or after the methods of the two great men mentioned above; while in a similar manner the higher mathematics of astronomy is largely due to the celebrated Gauss, formerly connected with the university-observatory of Goettingen, in Hanover.

In our own country, the two colleges, Harvard and Yale, have trained up the majority of our astronomers; and in the West the University of Michigan called some years ago from Germany the distinguished astronomer Bruennow, who is now waking into a new life the old observatory of Trinity College in Dublin, but who has left with us pupils not unworthy of their teacher's fame. Of the third class of observatories, those be