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 place ever
held by an American publication. Every
year the number of its distinguished
contributors has increased. and every
year lis range has been broadened, UNI
til it now covers all the principal sub
iects of contemporaneous interest in
America. The leading article in the
February number is Tariff Reform;
Retrospective and Prospectlve." by
David A. Wells. who is incom-
parably the foremost writer on
the the tariff-reform side of this
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 lnlmedi-
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 paper by Hon. George
Fred Williams on the "Immlnent
Danger From the Silver-Purchase
Act" wherein he shows the necessity
Cf the repeal Of the Sherman law
af 1899. Timely also is the paper on
How to Prevent the Coming or Ch0l-
era," by Sir Spencer Wells, one OF the
most distinguished physicians in En-
gland; and paper by Gustav H.
Schwab, manager of the North German
Lloyd Steamship company, on "A Prac-
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 lnpor-
tance. The literary features OF this
number are as of great excellence as
tie discussion OF timely sub.
jects. There Is, for instance.
paper on the cart of Writing
history" by the distinguished English
historian, w. E. Ii. Lecky, wherein he
states the purposes and methods OF his
t0rical writing and the study OF history.
f. Marion Crawford, the novelist, whose
paper, "What Is NOvel?' i'll recent
number of The Forum, attracted 50
much attention. writes this m0atu On
emotional tension IN modern LIE and
how the modern novel deals with lt-a
paper that contains study not simply
of literary material, but OF all the emo
tional compleXity Of modern eiYiliza-
ton. Charles Leonard Moore, OF
Philadelphia, the poet whose work
was Iecently reviewed in 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 eXeeilentaS 1t has
been represented to be, but he nndS
amusing and discOuraging abSurdltleS
in the primary teaching there. FOLLOW
ing the recent paper by ex-senator FL
munds on 'PoliticS as Career" DE- j.
5. Billings writes noble and instruct
i've article in this number OF the
Forum Oil Medicine as 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 in this months periodical liter
ature is the paper in this number Of
the Forum by John G. Wickiiffe. of
New Orleans, a lawyer of high standing
and until recently editor OF the New
Delta, wherein he points out that negro
suffrage has been a failure, aud asks #
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 III the electoral col-
lege and i'll congress, and 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 citizen in effect.
as by law he is entitled to be: In addi-
ton to the foregoing papers Miss Frau
ces NJ. Abbott writes an Interesting
study of our social development under
the title Of "How to Solve the House
keeping Problem