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THE NORTH AMERICAN REvIEw-Edited by
Allen Thorndike Rice. Office of Publica-
Per an1rnm, 50.
In short article. ''Stage and Soci-
ETY., - in the January number, Mary An
derson presents some of the reasons that
occur to her for the growing favor with
which society regards dramatic art
lists, the principal of these beng
the fact that actors themselves
have grown more appreciative of their
art, and conscientious methods and devo-
ton to it have by the power of excellence
forced their recognition in the social
world Honest endeavor persistently fol-
lowed leads from obscurity, and those
who exercise it will not long be under
any ban. Miss Anderson is q firm
believer in hard work and deplores with
the earnestness of true worker any at
tempt on the part of beauties or parlor
elocutionists to take short cuts in the
road to dramatic fame. She is a firm
believer that art lies IN the artist, and
| emphasizes her belief by her
own success in bringing out
the dramatic possibilities of FWin-
ter's Tale, - so long condemned as the
| least valuable of Shnkespeare's plays for
successful dramatic representation. Miss
Anderson IS creed is that only by long,
earnest effort, careful training, lofty
thought and determined purpose can the
most gifted hope TO succeed, and expect
I to command recognition il the social or
| dramatic world.
1t is rare that a work of fiction
attracts the attention and ELECTS the
| criticism of statesmen, and never per-
haps in the history of this class of lltera-
ture has any authOress had leader such
as the Hon. w. E. Gladstone for re-
viewer. Robert Elsmere has been
thought of enough Importance in its theo-
logical heresieS to draw forth comments
from many high sources, and we have in
this review Il symposium consisting
of Edward Everett Hale, Marion Har-
land, Rev. Joseph Cock, Julia Ward
Howe and Hon. w. E. Gladstone, who
have given their opinions on the merits
and dement's of this book.
In No. of the series of ''Letters to
Prominent Persons - Artfgr Richmond
makes his congo to Secretary Bayard,
which is an arraignment of his whole
course during his official term as secre-
tary of state.
THE CENTURY-January. Office of pu5lica-
ton, Union square, New York. Terms, 81
year.
! Texan readers will be doubtless much
| interested in well illustrated article on
'Horses of the Plains;' to many of
| them the pictures will be extremely
familiar, and many viii see an old
acquaintance in the glass-eyed,
pinto hided pony of the cow
boy, and be surprised at the evolution
that has developed him into the faVorite
saddle horse that Frances through the
shaded avenues of Central Park.
''The Romance of DOllard'' increases
! in interest as it progresses. Miss Gather
wood has opened virgin field in fiction
and is proving herself a most successful
! pioneer.
The Life of Abraham Lincoln has adj
vanced to the announcement of enamel
! patton, the compilers of this work have
! incorporated so much collateral matter
more or less relative to the CEN
! trail life as to give their work
the properties and almost the proper
tons of an encyclopedia of history.
This is unfortunate for the reader of the
present time, although it has the virtue
! of being a stOrehouse where some later
historian may find material for con-
| densed and therefore more available BIZ
| ography.
The articles Ground About Galilee -
| by Edward L. Wilson, are of special in
terest to the biblical studenta and of
value to all who are engaged in Sabbath
| school work.
BELFoRD's MAGAZINE u January. Dom
Piatt, editor. Belford, Clark & Co., Chicago,
publishers. Price, So year.
The opening article, Wicked Legis-
Iation, by Clinton Kurdish, is an I'M
earthing of methods pursued and utter
ances made by politicians of note,
members of the party that has dominated
for the last twenty eight years. The
article Is short, only matter of a few
pages, but the record, short as it
! is, bristling with facts, is pregnant
with important truths to the thought
| full mind. 1t is a history of the finan-
| cial policy of the Republican party
| through all these years which finally Gull
! minated in the Ubiquitous legislation that
| secured coin payment of the interest and
the principal of United States bonds,
thus making the bondhOlders
! its beneficiary rather than the
soldiers whose services were given
to perpetuate the government. Mr..
! Kurdish charges, and with show of rea-
son, that the party as it stands to-day
| has fallen into the hands of demagOgical
! leaders, and that its conventions are con-
! ITOlleu Dy Lobbyists anu TdiTOdu dlJOF-
neys, while the needed support is ex-
pected from the agricultural element If
the nation, and concludes by asserting
that under existing conditions American
politics offers but slight reward to manli-
ness or patriotism.
1.-the Root of the Spells SYSTEM is
laid bare by Edward V. Vallandingham,
who having diagnosed the case, pre-
scribes a change of governmental form
that shall approach more nearly to the
| parliamentarian
The complete novel in this number is
''The Lion s Share,'' by Mrs. Clark
Waring.
THE FoRUM-January.. Loretus S: Metcalf,
| editor. Publication Office, 25S Fifth avenue,
New York. Subscription price, s..
Senator Morrill, speculates in this num-
Der on the question of the desirablity of
union with Canada, and after n careful
survey of the entire field and the possible
benefits that would accrue to
that country by the introduction of
aggressive and progressive Americans
concludes that although this oupStiOn has