succeed in reconciling
science and religion, than he could in convincing the world that
triangles and circles are exactly the same. There is the same
relation between science and religion that there is between astronomy
and astrology, between alchemy and chemistry, between orthodoxy
and common sense.

_Question_. Have you read Miss Cleveland's book? She condemns
George Eliot's poetry on the ground that it has no faith in it,
nothing beyond. Do you imagine she would condemn Burns or Shelley
for that reason?

_Answer_. I have not read Miss Cleveland's book; but, if the author
condemns the poetry of George Eliot, she has made a mistake. There
is no poem in our language more beautiful than "The Lovers," and
none loftier or purer than "The Choir Invisible." There is no
poetry in the "beyond." The poetry is here--here in this world,
where love is in the heart. The poetry of the beyond is too far
away, a little too general. Shelley's "Skylark" was in our sky,
the daisy of Burns grew on our ground, and between that lark and
that daisy is room for all the real poetry of the earth.

--_Evening Record_, Boston, Mass., 1885.

INTERVIEWING, POLITICS AND SPIRITUALISM.

_Question_. What is your opinion of the peculiar institution of
American journalism known as interviewing?

_Answer_. If the interviewers are fair, if they know how to ask
questions of a public nature, if they remember what is said, or
write it at the time, and if the interviewed knows enough to answer
questions in a way to amuse or instruct the public, then interviewing
is a blessing. But if the representative of the press asks questions,
either impudent or unimportant, and the answers are like the
questions, then the institution is a failure. When the journalist
fails to see the man he wishes to interview, or when the man refuses
to be interviewed, and thereupon the aforesaid journalist writes
up an interview, doing the talking for both sides, the institution
is a success. Such interviews are always interesting, and, as a
rule, the questions are to the point and the answers perfectly
responsive. There is probably a little too much interviewing, and
to many persons are asked questions upon subjects about which they
know nothing. Mr. Smith makes some money in stocks or pork, visits
London, and remains in that city for several weeks. On his return
he is interviewd as to the institutions, laws and customs of the
British Empire. Of course suc