St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-08

Ito waitHUii anu IIcnIcSS are Only tHOr-
oughly appreciated after study. IAN
Autumn Afternoon from Arthur
Hoeber's water color. is exquisite i'm
tone and broad in treatment, furnishing
food for study. The seasonable sugges-
lions for valentines are simple and
pleasing. The third of the series Of
papers on Modern German Artists
discusses Wilhelm DieZ, and is pro-
fusely illustrated. The issue is UNI
usually interesting to housekeepers as
well as art students.
Sir Edwin Arnold. who has been en-
JOying an interesting trip through the
United States, has made careful study
of the conditions which govern the fam
lily in Japan, and embodies his ideas in
paper called Love and Marriage in
Japan" in The February number of the
Cosmopolitan. The article is illustrated
by the quainteSt possible japanese
sketches running down the sides and
across the bottom OF each page. An ex-
cellent photograph of w. ID. Howells
serves as frontispiece. and his work as
a writer of fiction is reviewed in the
same number by III. II. Boyesen. The
president of Johns Hopkins university
gives most practical paper for parents
on Boys and Boys Schools" illustrat-
Murat HalStead turns back lovingly to
his early farm days. and tells of the
~Pets and Sports OF Farmer Boy"
The petroleum industry fully illustrat-
ed; an Afghan story by Archibald
Forbes; the story Of the Brazilian re-
public by Adams, late minister to that
country; and the leading amateurs of
the United States i'll photography, arc
other leading articles OF the month.
Walter Besants London stories de-
rive much of their realism from his ac-
curate knowledge of the great city itself
How to See London" is the theme of
clever article from the famous novelist
in the special number of The Youths
Companion for Feb. 4. 1t is worth saw
ing by any one who expects to visit
London.
"a Boy Lieutenant" is the title of a
true serial story of the civil war by
Lieut.. Free S. Bowley, which begins in
The Youths Companion of Feb. 4.
Lieut.. BoWley is from San Francisco,
and has been a railroad man OH The
Southern Pacific for twenty years. The
simplicity, directneSs and dramatic
power of the opening chapters Indicate
a writer OF talent who ought to have
begun literary work long ago.
One of the most attractive of the
short stories recently published ap-
pears under the title THE Bellies of
Spruceland." in the February double
number of The Youths Companion. 1t
describes with uncommon fidelity a
party arranged by two girls. The guests
were the old ladies of the village. bellies
OF fifty years ago, and their chief en-
tertainment was a serenade by the old
fifer and drummers of their youthful
days. In such story young and old
meet on a common ground of interest
and respond to the touch of true senti-
ment felt by all ages. Nothing better
could be read aloud to family circle
The February Engineering Magazine
begins with DR.. Chauncey NJ. Depew's
address at the dedication of the DrexeI
institute, Philadelphia, showing the i'm
mense Importance to the worlds prog
ress of the manual training school.
The Gold Fields of South Africa" are
discussed by GuStave Halle, in liber-
ally illustrated paper. The Decline in
Railroad Building" is treated by
Thomas L. Greene, and American
Mining in 1891" by Albert Williams, Jr.
Lieut.. Col. w. r. King, of the United
States engineer school, under the head
ing, Government Engineering De-
lished last month by George Y. Wisner
on the public works service. Gravity
Systems of Water Supply are de-
scribed in an illustrated paper by
George W. Rafter; Hyland G. Kirk Of
fers some suggestions Toward Human
Flight" with plans. and Oberlin Smith
asks ''Who Is an Engineer" with
view to arriving at the proper use Of
this term.
All the editorial departments, devoted
to mechanics, architecture, civil engl-
neerlng, mining, ETC., are kept up to
the usual standard as reviews of the
worlds industrial progress.
The illustration of the Review of Re-
views is as timely in the February num-
Der as in any preceding issue. The
frontispiece is fine portrait of Cardinal
Manning. In the Progress of the
World are portraits of Senators CullOm
and Palmer, of Illinois. Lord Harting-
ton, Joseph Chamberlain and Mr.. Coll
ings, ii. p, the late Prince Albert Vic
tor, the Princess May of Teck, the late
Emile de LaveIaye, G. W. ChildS and
A. j. DreXel. of Philadelphia, MIR. and
Mrs. Ballington Booth, of New York,
and striking likeness of Walt Whit
man With a. characteristic autograph
post card. In the Record of Current
de Maupassant, the late Khedive. the
new Khedive, and the late Wolcott
Balestier. The cartoon department is as
interesting as ever, and the character
sketch Of David b. Hill begins with
fine full page portrait of Mr.. Hill, which
is followed by another striking likeness
from fayorite photograph, and by por-
traits of Mr. Dana, of the sun, Mr.. How
ell, of the Atlanta Constitution, Senator
German. Mayor Grant, of New York
city, Richard Croker, the chief of
Tammany, and large number of strik-
ing cartoons, reproduced for the most
of ME- Edgar and Col Reeve, of Min
neapoliS. of Count Tolstoi and his
daughter, and of Madame NoyikOff ac-
company the article upon the Russian
famine. The article upon the London
Polytechnic and its Chicago excursion
contains three portraits ana ten other
illustrations. Mrs. Humphrey Wards
portrait accompanies the review of her
new book, and the review of the first
year of the Darkest England social
scheme is we'll illustrated. Thus the
Review of Reviews for February is a
pictorial as we'll as journalistic and
literary review and summing up of the
proceeding month.
Lee and Shepard are about to bring
out a remarkable book under the title
Dreams of the Dead" The story is
most realistic one, yet Poe never wrote
a more weird and gruesOme tale. The
most astonishing are related
in the most matter-of-fact way. The
book deals with the occult, and treats
of other than material things. The
author holds that those whom a mate
realistic Judgment calls dead are only
beginning to live, and III the form of
these dreams he has yelled the teach
ing of Il great truth. The book is en-
tirely original, and maintains ii very
high tone from beginning to end. No
one can read it. especially if they read
between the lines, without becoming a
better man or woman. The author,who
is well known and active in industrial
reform, writes under nom dc plume,
and great deal of interest has been
aroused among those who have read the
advance sheets as to his identity.
The February issue of Table Talk is
now ready for its many readers, who.