The Jersey City news., 1892-01-27
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
The February "scribner,s MaEnzine.

Inc reDfuary 'ScfiDner'S magazine
Scrtbncr's Magdztne for February con-
taips eight illustrated articles represent
ing the work of Robert Blum. W. l.. Met
calf, Irving K. Wiies, j. II. Twatchtman,
w. r. Taylor and other skilful artists.
In the group of Australian articles there
is vivid and picturesque description of
pastoral life Oh the great sheep ranches
which are peculiar to that coun try, fully
illustrated from drawings by Birge Har-
rison, who has but recently returned from
a long sojourn in that region. The not
able group on Practical Charities is rep
resented in this issue bv "A Model Work
ing Girls Club" the Polytechnic Young
Women's Institute, of London, described
by DR.. Albert Shaw, a close student
of social and economic questions.
The perilous work to which the Revenue
Cutter Service of the United States is
assigned during the winter months in re-
lieving vessels in distress, Is described by
Lieutenant Percy W. Thompson, of the
cutter Dexter. and some of the most not
able rescues are pictured by Semuel A.
Wood. DR.. Benjamin Sharp, who was
one of the party of naturalists which ac-
companied Lieutenant Peary to Green
land. tells about the isolated race dlscov-
cred in 1918 in North Greenland by Sir
John Ross and named the Arctic High
landers. Mr.. Coffin's second article on
american Illustration of To-day" dis
cusses notable group of artists, includ-
ing Blum, Mowbrav, Millet, Crane and
others, with examples of their work.
Another art paper is the unpublished
"reminiscences OF Henry Greenough, which
concern washington Al1ston as q
Painter" The fiction includes short sto-
res by Oct ave Thanet, Edwin C. Martin,
Bliss Perry, Il nd the Sixth instalment of
"The Wrec kerr which Is midway in the
progress of the story, and contains a
chapter deepening the myste ry in regard
to the wreck. An amusing paner, on an
old Dutch Cookery Book of 1852, by the
wife of Commander Chadwick. U. S. N,
an essay on "The Illusions of Memory"
py Professor William H. Burnham,
poems by Rose Hawthorne Lqthrop.
Archibald Lampman, and Eliza Wood
worth, with the Point of View, complete
number which appeal to wide circle
of readers interested in many things.
'.Station Life in Australia" by Sidney
Dickinson, describes the patriarchal life
on vast ranches where the industry of
sheep-raisng is carried on upon scsle
which can hardly be imagined. One
owner controls ranches greater in area
than Belgium, and another has 100000
acres which carry quarter of million
sheep. Still another contains l, III square
miles. These unusual conditions and
possibilities have developed sort of
feudal life which has been embodied in
recent fiction by Rolf Boldrewood, the
Australian novelist
"A Model Working Girls Club,' de-
scribed by Albert Shaw, gives the history
of the most complete and practically sue
cessful club of the kind that has been
organized, which grew out of the wish of
Mrs. Quentin Hogg to do for women
what her husband has accomplished for
young men in his Polytechnic Institute.
The building was opened in April, 1883.
and DIR. Shaw has embodied in his article
the remarkable record of its three years
growth. An article on Girls Clubs in
America" viii. appear in an early
number,