The National tribune., 1893-03-09
RECENT LITERATURE.

ATPT oIzdr Ior feD. -, contains Pat
tern-sheet supplement. New York Fashions:
The Gossip Manual. T. w. Higginson: Pets
IN the Home. Olive Thorne Miller; The RsbeI
Queen, Walter Besant.
The American Academy of Political and
Social Science announces that the March num-
Der OF its annals will be special banking and
financial number. containing four papers dis
cussing the question of National VI Stats
Banks
The effort Of the modern magazine ID 70 Ia
again what was In vogue Q century aso In
making mp such periodicals. The aim then
was to give diversified record Of the months
progress, to show the newest things and prssens
them intelligently to the reader. This IL the
aim of Current Literature. the March number q
II having just appeared, laden with fresh and
absorbing material.
st. Jacobs Oil Family Almanac and Book Of
Health asd Humor for the Million is ready.
Tbs popular publication Is brimfuI Of sound
advice and the raciest bits Of fun, original and
copyrighted. from the pens of such noted
humorists as Bill Nye. Opie P. Read, Danbury
News Nan. and others. copy will DO mailed
on receipt Of twocent stamp by the Charles
A. Fogeler Co., Baltimore, Nd
PAIRING and Municipal Engineering A monthly
magazine devoted to the Improvements Of cities.
Published at indianapolis. Price 81 o year;
single copies 25 cents.
The Proceedings of the 18th National Ia.
campment GAR. is now ready for distYibu-
ton: Copies may be had by applying 70 Col.
4. b. Gray, Adjutant-General, GAR, Nil
yankee. Wis.
The Silrer Cross, official organ of the Inter-
national Order Of the Kings Daughters and
Sons. Published at I58 West Tssnsy-third
street, New York City.
The Overland Monthly for March will contain
three descriptive sketches of the Hawaiian
Islands and their volcanoes illustrated with
trr, ico1 . = It we
by Edward Wilson; A Dead Volcano, By N. L.
Fuller and The Footsteps of Pele, by Mabel 81.
Closson. A plea for silver-a paper highly
spoken OF by Senator Stewart-will treat the
subject thoroughly, and will be entitled, Thu
Free Coinage of Silver, by John c. Henderson.
Hon. Robert c. Winthrop, the venerable ora
TOR ana statesman, who was Speaker Of the
House OF Representatives nearly half Q century
ago. has written for the Historic Moments se.
ries, in Scribner's Magazine, graphic account
OF the Death OF John Quincy Adams who rosa
In his seat and addressed Mr.. Winthrop a
Speaker at the very moment when he yas
stricken with his fatal disease (February,
1s48). After As years Mr.. Winthrop recalls
that dramatic event with the clesrness of \
memory Of yesterday.
Harpers Magazine for March contains several
illustrated articles Of more than ordinary value.
Among these there is q comprehensive and
timely article on Slavery and the Slave Trade
in Africa, by Henry III. Stanley, with several
striking illustrations by Frederic Remington:
paper on the famous palace and monastery of
The Escurial. by the late Theodore Child, with
numerous illustrations; an attractive and
graphic description of 'Florida-Our Own Ri
viera-by Julian Ralph, illustrated by W. T.
Smedley; and the first Of series of articles On
Washington Society, by Henry Loomis Nelson.
with appropriate illustrations by C. s. Reinhart.
The March issue of Frank LesIis's Popular
Monthly is an Inaugural number, and contains
an article on A Change of Administration, by
Frederick s. Daniel, which has pictures Of Mr..
and Mrs. Cleveland, Adlai E. Stevenson, and
various scenes during the Inauguration cers-
monies. The number also contains the first
instalment OF Eta W. Piercs's story, jack q
the Light.
The North american Rerieu for March con-
tains q number of important articles upon
subjects that are engaging public attention Mt
the present moment. The Hon. J. ii. Rusk,
Secretary of Agriculture contributes an inter.
esting paper on American Farming Hundred
Years Hence. The question of Hawaiian an
nexatiou is authoritatively treated from two
different points of view, first by Lorrin A.
Thurston, ex-Prime Minister of Hawaii and
Chairman Of the Hawaiian Annexation Com
mission, who points out the Advantages Of An
nexation in an able and forcible manner and,
secondly, by George Ticknor Curtis, who sums
up the case against annexation in . concise
article entitled Is 1t Constitutional7D
.Tenness- Miller Illustrated Monthly for March
has several articles that will interest people
who are fond of the mysterious. The thrilling
story of the Caves of KarIi is continued, and
there is an article on hypnotism by an expert
Besides these features is a new department.,
F" Under Our Evening Lamp" and Stories
sketches, poems, and special articles Of absorb
ing interest.
The Decrease of Rural Population will b
discussed in the March Popular Sciences Monthly
by John c. Rose, who gives full and exact in
concerning this tendency, and points
out the industrial changes to which it Is due.
An interesting and little-known topic In colo
NAL history will be dealt with by Col. A. B.
Ellis under the title White Slaves and Bond
Servants in the Plantations. This il the sell.
ing OF rebellious subjects of the British Crown
into servitude in the Colonies of North America
and the West Indies.
Outing for March is an excellent number, con.
tanning many interesting articles of fiction,
sport, and travel. and, as usual, carries fns
illustrations. It contains. among other papers:
Chasers and Chasing in Ireland; Shooting in
Japan; The Irregularities Sin; Fishing Through
the Ice Track Athletics at Yale; Through
Darkest America (coneluded) Yachting Around
San Francisco Bay; Militia and National Guard
Of Ohio.
The Century for March contains . UNIQUE
Capt. Thomas Usher, r. n, of Napoleon's
Deportation to Elba, in which is given .
familiar account of all the circumstances of thu
trip, and a careful report of Nspoleon's frank
comments on men and events. The article il
preceded by o portrait and short sketch Of
Capt Usher, who was the officer in charge, and
the fronts piece of the magazine is appropriately
an engraving from the bas-r relief of Napoleon
by Boizot, which was the property of Joseph
Bonaparte, and is now in the possession Of the
Historical Society. Napoleon's
comments on Butcher, and on the proposed in
yasion of England, are particularly interesting.
The paper bears evidences of being careful
contemporary record, and has accordingly his
.orical as we'll as popular interest. A paper by
Prof Edward Lewis Curtis, of Yale University,
On The Present State of Old Testament Criti-
ism, being an expert treatment Of current
questions, will be read with lively interest In
connection with recent heresy trials.
Perhaps the most notable special article In
he current number of st. Nicholas ia that Of
Mr. Talcott Williams upon Philadelphia. This
PAPER is one of series describing the more i'm
,ortant cities of the United States. Mr.. Will
Jams gives as a subtitle A City of Homes, and
makes this his text for the declaration that
is in certain respects the most
uccessful of American cities. He claims that
IS municipalities exist primarily to give homes
% their citizens, and as Philadelphia gives
homes to the largest proportion of the jewellers
D the city, therefore il is entitled to claim pre-
in that for which cities are designed.
The literary character of The Cosmopolitan In