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MAGAZINES.
The midwiuter february Century is
notable among other things for the final in
stallment of the Lincoln biography. The
| frontispiece of the number is the enlarge
ment of small full-length photograph Of
| Ralph Waldo Emerson, taken about 1859.
| The portrait is a very characteristic one,
| and gives the appear tnce Of MIR. Emerson
before lecture audience. In the way of
| timely discussion nothing could be more to
the point than Prof. Thorpes paper, in which
| he gives his reasons for thinking that Wash
ington and Montana have made mistake
! in their constitutions. In this number is
begun the publication of the artist, La
| Farge's, letters from Japan. with lllustra-
tions prepared by the author. Joseph
| jefferson devotes large part of the current
instalment of his autobiography t. his
"reminiscences of Edwin Forrest, of whom
| four portraits are giveu-t1o OF Forrest oil
| the stage and two in character In addition
| to this Jefferson describes his own first visit
to London and to Paris. Two extremely
! timely papers are ON what Milton calls The
Realm OF Congo" The first describes
| trip made by the United States commits
sioner, Tisdel, in 1884, and the second gives
an idea of the Congo river Of to-day. The
Century Company, Union square, New
York.
leading article in the February ST. Nicholas.
1t is "The Story of the Great Storm at
Samoa" retold by John P. Dunning, who
was correspondent at Samoa for the Asso-
ciated Press when the great disaster oc-
! Cured. 1t is an improved, enlarged, and
more carefully written version Of the dis
! match which all the world admired at the
| time, and it is richly illustrated. not only
| from photographs, but with drawings by
! ]. o. Davidson, w. Taber, and George
| Wharton Edwards. "a Wonderful Pair
of Slippers" is a correspondence between
Mark Twain and Elsie Leslie concerning
testimonial constructed for the little actress
1 nv Mr.. Clemens and Mr.. Gillette. In
.Two WAYS of Having a Good Time,"
Frances E, Willard draws an instructive
naraliel and suggests a shrewd lesson, by
| Showing that sit is better to make little
90 n great way than great deal 60 little
Srav 3 in the amusement of young or old.
The Century Company, Union square, New
| York.
The February number of the Cosmopott-
tan il an excellent number. Horace Gree