Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-01-29
FEBRUARY MAGAZINES.


the February dreHd presents two papers
of much interest by foreign eSsaylsts.
Camille FlammariOu, the eminent Euro
peau astronomer. writes at length on New
Discoveries on Mars Alfred Russell
Wallace, ID. T.. l.. IL. ID contributes a
striking paper on "The Nature and Cause
of Apparitions.
Music-lOving young ladies, and those
with vocal aspirations, will find treat IN
the Ladies Home Journal for February. in
which Emma c. Thursby, Campanini,
Madame Albani Clara Louise Kellogg,
Maud Powell and Albert Parsons have
crisp and practical articles ON voice-traln-
Ing, piano-playing and music and vocalIcs
generally.
On opening the pages of The North
american Rsrisir for February one is almost
al u loss 10 determine where 10 turn first.
4 feast OF uncommon richness IS spread
before the reader AT the outset we have
a most interesting group OF "reminiscences
/ of Gettysburg Thirty Years After
called forth bv the visit 10 the historic
ground last October of the Count of Paris
and most Of the living commanders who
I took important parts in the famous battle.
l The contributors 10 this symposium are the
Count of Paris himself, General o. O.
I Howard. General Henry W Slocum, and
I General Abner Doubleday, and there is the
promise that in the next number contrlDu-
/ lions will appear from the pens OF cen
erals Siclsles, Butterdeld, Newton and
Gregg.
An entertaining feature of the current
February Hurlcr'N Magazine IS the collec-
tiOu of twelve original drawings by w. Nj.
Thackcrav now published FOR the ilrst
time illustrating the Heroic Adventures
of NJ. Boudin" with comment by Anne
Thackeray Rtchic.
When Sir Grmbald. the brave crusader,
ancestor of the present British Minister AT
Washington. Sir Julian Pauncefote, was
captured by the Saraceus. they demanded
| in ransom the right hand OF his wife, aud
| the brave lady SO saved herlord. THIS M
cident is the subject of thrilling ballad
| by Mary Bradley in the February Md
/ fwaLe- authentic facts having been fur
nished for the poem by Sir Julian himself.
/ The ballad has superb pictures by Edmund
/ II. Garrett.
/ DIR. Egrlcston's new novel. The Faith
/ Doctor" will open with a generous install.
mcut in the February Century. The novel
I is said not only To take firm hold on cur
rent events i'm relation 10 faith healing.
/ Christian Science, etc. but TO deal with
| the social struggle always going on in
great city like New York. The first sub
| titleof THE Faith Doctor is The Origin
of a Man Of Fashion, and the second The
| Evolution of Society Men. FL
bridge Kingsley has engraved several
pictures from Rousseau, which VIII appear
| In the same number. accompanied by
paper on Rousseau by Charles de Kay.
Some curious, interesting, and hitherto
unpublished lettrs Of Charles aud Mary
i q la. la, ret Of the
| atlantic for February, and these letters are
edited bv Mr.. William Carew Hazlitt.
/ They are most carefully printed, nothing
/ is suppressed i'm them, and they are quite
| fully annotated One most characteristic
note of coincidence, written by Lamb to
| Thomas Hood on the death of his child,
after many expressions of grief, ends with
the extraordinary sentence, 81 have won
I seXpence Of MoNom by the sex of the dear
gone one; Lamb Oeing unpble 10 foreg0
his wager and his pun even at such 4 mo-
ment Professor ROyce's second "PhlloSo-
pher of the ParadOXicaln is SchOpenhauer.
I lie treats most ably Scopenhauer's place
in the world of thought, and concludes his
paper with a ringing passage OF very great
beauty. Mr. Percval LOwells "Not0' Is
continued and the traveller at last arrives
at the turning-pOint. but not at the end OF
his journey.
The vigorous, intellectual and practical
character of the Popular Science Monthly
is well shown in the contents of the Feb
ruary issue. In the opening article, emit
I tied "FrOm Babel 10 Comparative Philo
logv.~ DR.. Andrew ID. White tells how
science has compelled the gradual abandon
ment Of the belief that Hebrew was the
first language Of man. Mr.. William F.
Durfee's Iron Smelling by Modern Meth
IN. d
great illustrated series of Industrial papers
now running in the Monthly, and shows a
striking contrast between the procedure OF
I 1910 and that OF to-day.
Kent Hampden, the new serial story
announced 10 appear in the Youths Com
pdniol, bv Mrs. Rebecca Harding Davis,
begins with the first numberin January.
Its incidents are laid in West Virginia,
which was Mrs Davis's home in her girl
hood DAYS The illustrations by W. L.
SNYDER are especially fine. Many of these
scenes are pictures of Wheeling in the
early days of stage coaches.
Edward L. Wilson. the photographer,
whose work IN Egypt and Palestine, and
whose descriptive articles about those
countries have made him wei. known, Will
have. i'm the February Scribncr'S an equally
novel and striking description OF plctur-
csque region of our own country, Mount
Washington in Winter" MIR Wilson has,
during twenty hears. made occasional per
ilous trips in winter up Mount Washing
ton. ami this article is the record of some
OF his most interesting adventures. illus
trated with remarkable snow and ice
scenes from photographs by the author and
his companion. &. w. kilourn, an expert
photographer.