St. Paul daily globe., 1893-01-30
IN THE MAGAZINES.

The February number of the Forum
ends Volume XIV. and closes the sew
enth year of this periodical, which the
press and its readers unanimously agree
has reached the foremost splaca ever
held by an American publication. Every
year the number of its distinguished
contributors has increased. and every
year IFS range has been broadened uli-
til it now covers all the principal sub
jects of contemporaneous interest in
America. The leading article in the
February number is Tariff Reform,
Retrospective and Prospective" by
David A. Wells, who is ineom-
the the tariff-reform side of this
controversy. Mr.. Wells. who regards
this as his best production, has written
a review of the long agitation for the
reform of the tariff, and he points cut a
definite programme for the incoming
administration to work by. He shows
that by treating the pension payments
as debt there can easily be an innnedi-
diate reduction of at least % per cent in
customs duties, and the financial neces-
sites of the government can Still be
amply met. Quite as timely as Mr..
Wells article is a paper by Hon. George
Fred Williams OH the Imminent
Danger From the Silvef-Ptlrehase
Act" wherein he shows the necessity
Of the repeal Of the Sherman law
af 1899. Timely also is the paper on
How to Prevent the Coming OF Ch0l-
era," by Sir Spencer Wells, one OF the
most distinguished physicians in En-
gland; and a paper by Gustav IL.
Schwab, manager of the North German
I lA.yd tho "a PY1R-
teal Remedy for Evils of Immigration"
Mr.. Schwab, as the largest transporter
of immigrants, has reached the con-
clusion that the only practical plan for
preventing the landing Of undesirable
people is to hold the steamship COM
panieS themselves responsible and re-
quire them to return those that are unfit
"a scheme Of great practical lmpor-
tanee. The literary features OF this
number are as of great excellence as
tie discussion OF timely sub
iects There is, for instance. a
paper on the ''Art of Writing
history" by the distinguished English
historian, w. E. Ii. Lecky, wherein he
states the purposes and methods Of his
t0ricdl writing and the study OF history.
E. Marion Crawford, the novelist, whose.
paper, what Is a Novel?" i'll recent
number of The Forum, attracted so
much attention. writes this moatl on
emotional tension in modern life and
how the modern novel deals with lt-a
paper that contains Il study not simply
of literary material, but OF all the emo
tional complexity of modern eiviliza-
tion Charles Leonard Moore, OF
Philadelphia, the poet whose work
was recently reviewed i'll the
Forum by Dr.. S. Weir Mitchell,
writes in an entertaining and Instruct
i've way on "The Future of Poetry"
; DR.. j. NJ. Rice's article i'll his series OF
studies of the work done in the school
rooms of our public schools IS this
month devoted to the schools OF Boston.
He reports that in some OF the Boston
schools the work is as excellent as 1t has
been represented to be, but he 1lndS
amusing and diseoufaging absurditieS
in the primary teaching there. Follow
ing the recent paper by ex-senator El-
mundS On politics as Career" Dr. D.
S. Billings writes noble and instruct
i've article in this number OF the
Forum Oil "Mediclne as a Career"
wherein he points out the substantial
attractions of medicine As profession,
and indicates how q man Should enter
upon it. Perhaps the most startling
article i'll this months periodical liter
ature is the paper in this number OF
the Forum by John G. Wlchiiffe. OF
New Orleans, lawyer of high standing
and until recently editor OF the New
Delta. wherein he points out that negro
suffrage has been failure, and asks II
it would not be more candid to repeal
the fifteenth amendment so that
the Southern states might deprive
the negro of the right OF suffrage If
they chose. His argument IS based uDon
the untairness Of giving the South ull-
due representation in the electoral c1t-
lege and in congress, ana thereby de
priving the Northern states of their
proper representation. ,The article IS
not written in partisan spirit, bur
simply records the despair OF ever. see
ing the negro become a citizen in effect,
as by law he is entitled to be. In addl-
ton to the foregoing papers Miss Frau
ces NJ. Abbott writes al interesting
study of our social development under
the title of How to Solve the House
keeping Problem
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