The Republican journal., 1892-03-31

With the April number of Harper's
Magazine Charles Dudley Warner takes the
place of MI. Howells is conductor of the
Editor $ Study. Mr. Warner is succeeded
in the Editor $ Drawer by Thomas Nelson
Page, who will preface that department
each month with an entertaining character
sketch.
The April Peterson gives specimens of
all the newest and most becoming styles.
The two double fashion plates show every
variety of American and Partisan costumes
and bonnets Then there are excellent de-
signs and descriptions of all sorts OF gar
ments for ladies and children, besides
pages OF notes and suggestions for house
keepers as novel as they are useful
The poets cannot complain of not get
ting show in the April New England
Magazine. Allen Eastman Cross writes a
time poem Oh Cardinal Manning human
ity, Celia p. Woolley contributes a de
scriptive poem called ''Stom Cloud.
Gertrude Christian Fos,lick. the wife of
J. W. Fosdick the artist. has ''The Smile
of Peace" Charles Gordon Rogers writes
a fine poem, ''Retrospect. Minna Irving.
the Tarrytown poet of the heart. is repre-
sented with a good, stirring Revolution
AIRY poem OF a soldier who never came
back, and James G. Burnett gives the
Lesson of the Years
The Pansy for April is an excellent
number. There are stories, articles and
verse suggestive of the Easter season it
heralds. Its leading stories. by Pansy and
Margaret Sidney, are OF interest enough in
themselves this month to make a brilliant
issue. The Baby's Corner contains a
charming little story, and the American
History article, and English Literature
paper, not to mention the Old World anec-
dote, and Missionary news, furnish a
range of topics which meets the needs of
The family entire, and makes this maya
zine an invaluable help wherever it goes.
Price 81. 90 year; 10 cents a number D.
Lothrop Company, Publishers, Boston.
Century Publishing Co. Clinton Place.
New York, book on Direct Legislation
by the Citizenship, by J. W. Sullivan. 1t
tells what has been done i'll this direction
IN switzerland, 1.-THE only country that
has ever given the institution a trial on
large scale. Three chapters are devoted
to this branch OF the subject, the fourth
relates to Direct Legislation in the Unit
ed States, and the fifth and last chapter
bears the title The Way Open to Peace
ful Revolution. We have not read the
book. for as it proposes to abolish the
politician that seems too remote posi-
bility to interest one who has already
passed middle life. We make this men
ton of the book for the benefit of those
Interested in such problems. Paper, y
cents.
Every new Babyland is a fresh delight
To Baby and Mamma. The wonder is,
where all the good things written and told
for Baby come from. But the Babyand' S
stories and rhymes and jlngles and pic
lures never grow less. In the April num-
Der Nurse Karen's story of the Chickens
in Trouble, and the Tiptoe Twins visit to
the Oak-Tree, and Sweetheart beautiful
little plant in blossom, which was given
her at the Easter service, as well as A
Tangled Tale and Babys Kitty are all
stories Mamma will need to tell over and
over to Baby, while she turns the pages
again and again to show the pictures made
on purpose for Baby to look at. Price so
cents year; ) cents a number D.
Lothrop Company, Publishers, Boston.
The illustrated articles in Harper Mag
azine for April include Edwin A. Abbey
magnificent illustrations of Shakespeare S
Tempest; Julian Ralph's "Brother to the
Sea- illustrated by Graham and Reming-
ton: ''From the Black Forest to the Black
Sea- Third Part), written by F. D. Millet
and illustrated by himself and Alfred Par
sons; "An Indian Fair in the Mexican Hot
Country by Sylvester Baxter, with illus
trations by Alice Barber Stephens; and
The Last Days of Percy Bysshe Shelley
with illustrations from photographs.
There will also be poem by Walt Whit
man, with portraits and a full-page illus
tration; an illustrated poem by Thomas
Bailey Aldrich, and illustrated stories by
Richard Harding Davis and William Nc
Lehman.
Our Little Men and Women for April,
from its pretty frontispiece, "The First
Bluebird,'' to it's picture story on the
closing page, Polly and Prince is a
number to delight and instruct. ''Boys
and Girls in Samoa describes a type of