Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-03-06
Magazines.
ST NICHOLAS.

an exciting adventure, ''On q Mountain
Trail told bv Harry Perry Robinson.
1 Two miners fight q pack Of ravenous
wolves with dynamite, blowing the
+ brutes into what the boys call smith
+ Greens. " Mr. Taber illustrates the story
with vigor A delightful story Is Jacks
Cure. bv Susan Curtis Redield. Jack
runs away from home, and having been
4 forced 20 take place as maid Of all
work soon concludes, as Dorothy 5
saucy song reminds him, that there i
mo place ike home W. A. Rogers
/ has drawn the excellent illustrations TO
/ this story
There are three natural history arti-
Giles Mrs Sandman describes THE
+ Crows Military Drill preparatory to
migration: Ernest Thompson protests
against that slanderous name. The
/ Screech OWL" and +. NJ. Harding has
+ timely sketch called Mother Nature
/ Babes in the Wood. wherein the Dres-
ergation aud provisioning Of the germs
of spring vegetation are described clear
/ ", scientifically and in the interesting
way which. to say the least, not all
/ bOtanists attain. A doll. seventy years
old, is described by Margaret w. Bis
/ land: a true. but most marvellous, escape
/ from cyclones fury is written and
vouched for by NJ. Louise Ford; some
suggestions for making kites fly proper
/ " are offered by Harper Pennington,
and Harry Stillwell Edwards gives an
old negro's revised version" of Moray
and the Ark : This negro dialect
story is deliciously funny, and need not
I fear comparison with those of Uncle
Remus himself Mrs. Sprague makes
page.drawing of costumes with some
explanatory text, and Mr.. Stoddard
continues Crowded Out o. Croiield. :
CENTURY.
Three very timely and important sub
iects are treated in the March CENTURY
bv specialists. The first is the subject
! of Municipal Government. DR.. Albert
Shaw describing the workings of the
local government of Glasgow, one Of
the worlds model cities in this respect
The subject of Irrigation is treated in
the first Of series of three articles 10y
Professor Powell, the Director of the
United States Geological Survey. This
paper is entitled The Irrigable Lands
of the Arid Region The third great
subject is discussed in paper by Prof
eSsor Fisher on ''rhe Nature and Meth
cd OF Revelation the concluding one
in his very timely series. The same
number of TIE CENTURY has editorials
on Municipal Government" Our
Sins Against France and University
, Extension
This number is also notable for the
beginning of the most authentic and
original account vet published of the
.PrehiStoric Remains in the Ohio Val
lev. In the next number of The CEN
rrRY, Professor Putnam will describe
the famous Serpent Mound" the
present paper being an introduction to
the April article.
The current number contains also the
artist La Fargo second group of illus
trated Letters from JaOan, an article
on Gloucester Cathedral by Mrs. van
Rensselaer,, with pictures by Joseph
Pennell. and an article by Mr. Wilson,
the photographer, depicting Some
Wayside Places in Palestine, which
are referred to in current International
Sunday-school Questions also a striking
paper on The Sun-Danee of the Sioux.
by Frederick Schwatka, with pictures
by Frederic Remington, and a curious
study by Professor Wood of Philadelphia
on the subject of Memory.
NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE.
The frontispiece of the NEW Enc
ItAND MAGAZINE for March is full
I.noth portrait of Chief Justice Fuller,
and the article in the number which Is
3 AZ 10,
"The Supreme Court of the United
States by James ID. Colt. 1t is
learned and careful article, at the same
time anecdotical and viyacious; it is
yery fully illustrated, giving portraits of
all The chief justices from Jay down.
and of all the present justices, and al
together it is the most important recoo-
niiion by anv of our magazines of the
courts centennial. Ii will be Read by
all the lawyers, but it ought to be read
also bv students of our American GOV
ernment The opening article in the
MAGAZINE is entitled "A New England
Country Gentleman in the Last Centu-
rs. This country gentleman Was Henry
Bromfield. OF the famous old Boston
family which gave its name TO street
and hotel in the city; and the account
of his quiet life in the little town of Har-
ward, and the charming illustrations of
the article. will delight great many
besides the antiquarians. THE lnflu-
ence of John Calvin on the New Eng
land Town Meeting" by Arthur May
/ Mowry, exhibits in new and striking
way the immense influence of Calvin
and Calvinism in the development of
democracy.
Dial.-Last Friday while Mark Foust,
of Boydtown, was crossing the Wiscon-