The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-12-30
THE MAGAZINES.

The first number of the School Rertes, edited
by DR.. J. schurmau, president OF Cornell uni
versity. will be issued in January by Dr.. Frank
Thilly, Cornell university, Ithaca. y. y.
The Literary Northeast for January. published
by the u. D. Merrill Co, S. Paul, makes special
features OF Archbishop SatoIli' AMI SUNDAY
and the Worlds Fair" The frontispiecs is a
handsome photo-engraviug Of Minnshahs falls
in winter.
1t 10 so customary for the citizen OF the United
States to think of Canada a country of far less
consequence than his own that he is prone to
forget, ii he ever knew, that it far exceeds the
United States in area and possesses resources in
some respects unparaled. Erastus Wiman's
article on Benefits OF Reciprocity with Can
ada" in the current number of the Engineering
Magazine. in which these and kindred facts are
emphasized. will prove to many useful re-
Tninder. besides serving a. a needed caution to
those whose be lief in the future prosperity of
the United States is q matter OF blind faith.
This article appeals directly TO the business
man; so also DO three others in the same num-
Der: r. Fl. Edmonds' Types of Recent Southern
Progress" being the third paper in his valuable
series on the industrial Development OF the
SOUTH" Charles Mohr's sour Remaining Hard
Wood Resources" showing that the increasing
drain of our industries upon our forests will
soon exhaust the supply of this species of raw
material: and Charles J. Harrah's Labor
Troubles and the Tariff" presenting the views
OF Pennsylvania manufacturer TO the most
effective methods OF producing harmyuy be-
tween capital anu labor.
The Forum has lately received from more than
a thyusaud OF the most prominent and we'll
informed men in every part of the United
States expressions of the opinion that they re-
gard il as the most useful OF our periodicals be-
cause it gives its attention directly TO the great
problems of own country These letters
come from judges. senators. members OF con-
gress. clergymen. lawyers, men of affairs,
teachers i'll colleges, and from students and in
telligent patrons OF education. In tact, the re-
cent educational articles in the Forum by Dr.
Rice, In explanation of his Investigation OF ths
pubic school system, and by President Eliot
have concentrated attention upon educational
matters moro thoroughly than IL has been
before concentrated in tais generation
The volume OF comment, commeudatiou
and inquiry that these articles are
provoking is without precedent in serious peri
odical literature in the United states 1he Jan.
uary number of The Forum illustrates the pur-
pose of the magazine IN taxing hold of subjects
that are of the greatest pertInenes. Mr. Henry
Hucks ibis, ex-governor OF the Bank OF En-
gland and president OF the Bsmetallic League
writes on "The Crisis in silver" just az a time
when the international monetary conference 10
In session at Brusse 9, taking q worldwide view
OF his TOME The Hon. Henry Bacon chairman
of the house committee on coinage in congress-
contributes an article 20 show the inherent
weakness of the issue OF the currency by state
banks, and gives his. reasons for Disappearing
this Democratic plan, although Nr. Bacon Is
himself, OF course, Democrat.