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sketches, "Peuelopes English Experiences.
and her sarcasns on English lodgings and
English itemizsd bills are especially anus
ing. Houghton, Miffiin & Co., East Seven>
tenth street, New York.
There is a sparkle about every
thing in the Ladies' Home Jour
nat that appeals with wonderful at
Effectiveness to q reader, and this is
especially trne of its February issue. Mr..
Howells has, perhaps. never been brighter
| in anything he has done for a long time
than he is in his Coast OF Bohemia and
his admirable glimpses Of girl life in a great
| city. Mrs. Burton Harrison tells girls a
great deal they viii like to know Of the So
cial code of opera, theater and concert in
/ the fourth of her popular series on The
| Well-bred Girl in Society,"" Octave Thanet
has very happy article addressed TO wives
on THAT Man, Your Husband :" which
| Vera Bernadiere supplements with interest
ing glimpses Of the results Of foreign mar
riages made by American girls Ladies'
Home Journal, 421-427 Arch street, Phila-
delphia.
Lippincott's Magazine has a complete
novel in this issue, "The First Flight" by
Julien Gordon. 1t deals satirically with the
ambitions of daughter Of wealthy parents.
not quite ito the manner born socially,
and is illustrated. The Journalist Series"
| Is continued in an interesting article by
Hon. John Russell Young, on "Men Who
Reigned; Bennett. Greeley, Raymond,
Prentice and Forney." Portraits of these
| famous editors are added and one of Sec
rotary Seward accompanies "Recollectious
of Seward and Lincoln" by James Matlack
Scovil. Under the heading, FAN Organ
and A Reform" Frederic NJ. Bird calls at
tention TO THE Pagan Review" and its
plans, and discusses the question, Are
| Women Free and Equal~ NJ. Crofton, in
Men Of the Day :" describes Ruskin. Earl
Rosebery, Archbishop Ireland and Justice
Lamar. Josiah sAllen's Wife" supplies a
short story, "Josiah's Alarm" and Francis
| Wilson a sketch, "The First Born of the
Orchard" J. B. Lippincott Company, Phil
adelpnia.
| Hdrper's Magazine for February opens
with Edwin A. Abbey's superb illustration
of Twelfth Night" accompanied by An
drew Langs interesting and scholarly COM
ment upon the play. This is the ninth pa
per in the unrivaled series of illustrations
OF Shakespeare's Comedies" The frontis~
piece is fine engraving, printed in tints,
| from drawing by Mr.. Abbey, represent
ing "Malvolio in the Dungeon" Mrs. Annie
| Fields contributes a delightful chapter of
personal "reminiscences of Whittier-''notes
| OF his life and of his riendships'-which is
accompanied by several illustrations and
portraits. Rev. John W. Chadwick writes
a similar chapter of "Recollections of
George William Curtis" which is illustrated
with portraits of Mr.. Curtis at different
periods of his life Julian Ralph's second
paper on the south relates to "New Orleans,
our Southern Capital" and Is brimful of
interesting and valuable information con-
corning the social and commercial features
Of vbof ~ w-l,-l- n
the most remarkable cities of this country.
More than twenty illustrations by w. T.
Smedley supplement Mr.. Ralph's graphic
descriptions. These are only few of the
good things Of the number. Harper Brothers,
New York.
Scribner's Magazine for February has a
number of illustrated articles on unusually
interesting bits OF foreign lands. The
writer's of these invariably take the pictur-
esque point of view, and, with the appro-
pirate illustrations, succeed in conveying
| the peculiar atmosphere of the various
| places. DR.. Henry Van Dyke write an I'M
| conventional travel sketch, with the title
| From Venice to the Grossly enediger."
| From far different outlook Mr. and Mrs
Blashtield describe Florence and the Flor
entine Artist" with pen and pencil-the
pictures of Mr.. Blashfield giving the artistic
| atmosphere OF that most suggestive city.
| The author and artist have reproduced the
old days when Florence was the center of
the great guilds of craftsmen whose art has
enriched the world. From the point of
view Of the decorator, Frederic Crownin-
| shield concludes his impressions of modern
Rome with illustrations of its unique beau
ties. Alfred Jerome Weston gives the color
aud spirit of Tangier in his sketch entitled
From Spanish Light to Moorish Shadow
a place which is becoming more popular
| every day as a winter resort for English
and American tourists. There are a num-
Der of other notable articles. Charles
| Scribner's Sons, New York.
The February number of The Forum ends
volume XIV. and closes the seventh year
of this periodical. Every year the num-
Der OF its distinguished contributors has in
creased and every year its range has been
broadened until it now covers all the princi-
pal subjects of contemporaneous interest in
America. The leading article In the Febru-
| airy number is Tariff Reform: Retrospect
i've and Prospective" by David A. Wells,
who is incomparably the foremost writer
| on the tariff reform side Of this controversy.
Quite as timely as Mr.. Wells article is a
| paper by the Hen. George Frederick Will
Jams on the Imminent Danger from the
Silver Purchase Act" wherein he shows
| the necessity of the repeal of the Sherman
law of 1890. Timely also is the paper on
| How to Prevevent the Coming of Chol-
era" by Sir Spencer Wells, one of
the most distinguished physicians in Eng
land; and a paper by Gustav H. Schwab,
manager of the North German Lloyd
Steamship Company, on "A Practical
Remedy for Evils of Immigration.p Mr..
| Sch wab, as the largest transporter Of immi-
grants, has reached the conclusion that the
only practical plan for preventing the land
ing Of undesirable peopls ia to hold the
steamship companies themselves responsible
and require them to return those that are
unfit-a scheme OF great practical i'm
portance The literary features of this
discussion of timely subjects. The Forum
! Publishing Company, Union square, New
| York.
| FIaG (readipg the programme)-Si Six months
are supposed to elapse between the second and
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