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ERN SOCIETY. GARDEN LIBRARY OF
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MAGAZINES.
The Forum for February has some
notable articles Senator Carlisle writes
about the very large approaching deficit Of
the national treasury; how the surplus has
been wasted and the necessary increase Of
taxation; the rate of national expenditure
per capita and its increase in peace over the
rate in war. Prof. Gildersleve has an essay
giving reminences of old southern life: the
ninth of this series, following similar papers
by Prof. John Tyndall, w. E. II. Lecky,
Frederic Harrison, Archdeacon Farrar,
President Dwight, Prof. a. p. Peabody and
others. "Was the Emin Expedition Pratt
calp is question which e L. Godkin asks
and answers. He shows why Stanley's ex-
petition was clearly Illegal; how Africa is
regarded as fit spoil for extra-legal expedi-
tons; the damage they do to civilization.
253 Fifth avenue, New York.
The February Wide AWaEe opens with
ballad of heroism. When the brave cru
sader ancestor of the present British minis
ter at Washington, Sir Julian Pauncefote.
was captured by the Saracens, they de-
manded bis wifes right hand in ransom,
and the brave lady so saved her lord. Sir
Julian Pauncefote supplied the author,
Mary Bradley, with authentic facts. Mr..
E. H. CARROTS pictures for the ballad are
finely dramatic. Other poems are by
Elizabeth w. Bellamy ana Mary E.
Wilkins. The interesting illustrated
articles of the number include Lieut..
Frontier Forts" and, as sort of military
pendant, a curious account of "a Fish
Army" The short stories are unusually
clever. Mrs. Burton Harrison's story,
Diamonds aud Toads," is concluded. d.
Lothrop Company, Boston, Mass.
The.first original article by Count Tolsto
that has ever been published in an Ameri-
can magazine appears in the February
icc,a IF tho Noea,a o,,oI;fO,, with a nun, bar
of interesting Photographic reproductions,
one of them being picture of Tolstoi guild
ing a pillow in his Russian fields. Brander
Matthews appears with his first article upon
"Some Latter-day Humorists." Mr..
Matthew'S contributions constitute one of
the most interesting features of the maya
zine. The third in the series of colored
frontispieces is a delightful sketch by
McVickar illustrating a character in Mrs.
Van Rensselaer, Cruger's new story,
"Mademoiselle Reseda" Ex-Postmaster
General James presents an article upon the
Welsh in the United States, literally illus
trated by portraits of prominent men who
are of Welsh extraction. NV omen Clerks
in New York." by the Marouise Clara
LAMA. The Cosmopolitan Publishing Com
pany, Union Square, New York.
The contents of the Magazine of Ameri-
can History for February cover wide
field of subjects, and are alive with fresh
information and suggestion. The handsome
features of the great geologist and geogra-
pher, Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, ap-
pear in the frontispiece, accompanied by
sketch of his notable career in scientific dis
covery, which influenced American research
quite as effectively as that of any European
country. The able and scholarly contribu-
ton of Hon. John Jay, LID, entitled
1.-THE Demand for Education in American
History" occupies the leading place, and is
the longest and most important article of
the number-one which should be read care
fully by every true citizen who desires for
American youth an American character.
Mr.. Jay says 'our great authorities on his
ory-teaching are agreed that rightly to
understand, appreciate and defend Ameri>
can institutions, the true plan is to know
their origin and their history" 743 Broad
way, New York.
A portrait of Talleyrand in his youth is
the appropriate frontispiece of the Febru-
airy Century, in which is given very full
and interesting installment of extracts from
the Talleyrand Memoirs begun in the
January NUMBER Napoleon is almost the
sole subject of the extracts in this number
Miss Clare de Graffenried, of the United
States labor bureau, opens the number with
a striking Paper on THE Georgia Cracker
in the Cotton Mills" illustrated by studies
from life by Mr.. Kemble. The California