The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-04-21
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| The English Illustrated Magazine An admira
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! The Arena. Contents for April: Vital Stats.
tics of the Negro; The Money Question; Yols-
puk, the World Language; The Speaker in
England and America; Rational Views oil
Heaven and He'll; The Farmers Alliance, and
Some of It's Leaders; Pontifex Maximus; How
Nottaway "Squashed the Indictment; A
Spoil of Office; Two Hours in the Social Gel
lar. Price so cents. Published at Boston,
Mass.
Considerable interest has been manifested
regarding the first number of the Cosmopolitan
Magazine to be issued under the editorial man
agement of Mr.. Howels. The magazine has
furnished list of names which promises some
thing quite unusual for the May number. The
authors whose works appear in this issue are
James Russell Lowell, Thomas w. Higginson,
Murat Halstead, Edmund Clarence Stedman,
Brander Matthews, Edward Everett Hale, Ed
gar Fawcett, Richard l.. Garner, John Hay,
Luther Guy Billings Henry James, Prof. s. p.
Langley, Frank r. Stockton, Dudley Buck,
Theodore Roosevelt, Fl. II. Boyesen, Sarah Orne
Jewett Gertrude Smith, Lila Cabot Perry, Will
liam Wilfrid Campbell, William Dean Howells.
The North american Reriep promises to have.
among the contents of its forthcoming May
number a symposium on The Man or the Plat
form? by Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania; Sem
ator Vest Of Missouri; Representative Boutelle,
of Maine; Representative Burrows, OF Michigan /;
Representative Wilson, of West Virginia and
Representative Kilgore, of Texas. the same
number will also contain an article on The
Poet of Democracy walt Whitman, by John
Burroughs, and other contributions by Hon.
Charles Emory Smith, United States Minister
to St Petersburg; Senator Stewart, of Nevada :;
Gen. B. f. Butler; the Marquis of Lorne Prof.
Goodwin Smith; Hon. John Russell Young,
and the Rt Hon. w. e. Gladstone.
Mr.. Henry Van Brunt, an acknowledged au-
thority on all matters connected with archi-
lecture, begins in the Nay number of The Cen
tuy his sem-official account of the housing of
the Worlds Columbian Exposition. The illus.
trated series will give the point of view of the
architects, explaining to the public the build
ings which are now being erected at Chicago,
in relation to their special uses and to the gen.
era design of the Exposition. 1t will be seen
from this first paper that the Exposition in ex-
ternal appearance at least, will be one of the
most magnificent sights resulting from the
handiwork of men.
The Illustrated Worlds Fair for April, en-
larged by four additional pages, devotes many
illustrations to the portrayal of the extraOrdi-
nary traveller of derrick that is now setting the
arches on the floor of the Hall of Manufactures.
Besides the many instructive scenes photo
graphed in Jackson Park, this bright and in
structive magazine con tains page article and
portrait of Max ORell; a page sketch by Opie
Read, illustrated by Charles Lederer; an article
by Director Odell; an extended editorial de-
scription of the scene at Jackson Park, by John
McGovern; the rules of the mining exhibit;
and large number of humorous poems and
paragraphs. The Illustrated WorIds Fair has
taken its place as first-clas5 magazine. Its
pictures are the surprise of the world. J. N.
Hallgan, General Manager; $3.50 a year, Is
cents number. MoVicker's Building, Chicago.
Harper's Bazar for April Is an Easter
Humber, and will contain many features es-
pecialy appropriate to the occasion. Among
these will be an Easter story, entitled Miss
Livingston, by Marion Harland and story by
Harriet Prescott Spofford. Mrs. Dewing will
contribute her second article on Gardening
with illustrations from her own drawings.
The third paper in the series, entitled the
West from a Car Window. by Richard Harding
Davis, has been published in Harper's Weekiy
1t comprises graphic description of scenes and
incidents At New Mining Camp, Creede, and
is fully illustrated by Remington. Many other
noteworthy and valuable features will be con-
tanned in the same number of the Weekly.
The stories especially worthy of note In
snort stories lot May are: afJlsC NdlnWrlgnt,
romantic tale, by Sidney Luska The Curate's
Dream, an amusing sketch, by Alphonse Dau-
det; Death Cometh Soon or Late, pathetic
tale, by Luke Sharp; The Puerto de Medina,
a story of love and adventure, by Maurice
Kingsley; A Horse Thief, a romance in Jail,
by Opie Read; That Church Picture an anus
ing incident of clerical life, by O'Monroy; and
The Lifted VAIL in the Famous Story Series
by George Eliot. The Current Literature Pub
fishing Co., 80 and 81 Lafayette Place, New
York.
Ha,pers Young People for April 10 Is an
Easter number. 1t consists of "a pages, in
closed in a cover especially designed for this
issue by +. " Du Mond The contents are un-
usually rich and varied, and the illustrations
In the Easter double number of the Youths
Companion Justin Mccarthy, NJ. P, Rev. Lyman
Abbott, d. D., Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and |
Elizabeth w. Bellamy each have delightful |
story or article in characteristic style. This |
single edition has 100000 copies.