Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-02-03
FEBRUARY READING MATTER.

bic stories that Will please the tots oe
yond measure.
The atlantic for the current month,
presents splendid list OF attractive
articles. The articles are mostly heavy
but well suited to the reader who wants
something TO digest and TO furnish MIN
mental strength.
Romdnce for February is special
English number and contains sixteen
good short stories, all by English au-
thors. For the reader who wants CON-
plete story in an hour or two, Romance
is the proper thing.
The North american ReUielC is always
good and the February issue Is no ex-
ception to the rule. In fact the North
american ReUtelU does not Seem to BE-
ieVe, so far as it concerns Itself, al
least, the old saw that Exceptions
prove the rule"
Wide A,Cdke for February is just ike
all its predecessors; it is wide awake,
and the little ones who read IL will ind
in il much pleasure and satisfaction and
an immense fund Of really useful In
formation. The current number ha:
several particularly bright articles.
The Californian Magazine has just
enough OF the western flavor about II
TO make it agreeable. Its articles, how.
ever, are general enough in their char
acter to please people OF all sections
and its Illustrations are as good as the
best, both as TO subjects selected and
workmanship.
The Forums first article is by David
A. Wells, and is entitled Tariff Reform:
Retrospective and Prospective" The
article contains much valuable infOr-
nation and is worth the price Of the
number. The February issue is rife
with good things, including a practical
paper on immigration and its evils.
Another notable article is by John &.
Wickliffe on Negro Suffrage A Failure;
Shall we abolish it,"
Scribner'S Magazine for February has
splendid frontispiece "A Regular
Trainer" Illustrating another of those
very popular and excellent "Stories OF
Western Town." by Octave Thanet.
The other articles in the number are:
From Venice to the Groes-Venediger, "
Henry Van Dyke; Personal Recollec-
tions OF Charles Sumner" The Marquis
de ChambrUn: The Florentlne Artist, "
Z II. Blashield; "a Memory: Anne
| Reeve Aldrich," Edith NJ. Thomas;
From Spanish Light to Moorish
Shadow" Alfred Jerome Weston; I'm
pressions OF q Decorator in Rome, "
Frederic Crowninshield; "Shall Com
pain?" Louise Chandler Mouton; THE
/ One | Knew the Best Of ALL" Frances
HodgSon Burnett; chow the Battle Was
Lost" Lloyd Osbourne.
The Engineering Magazine is sup
posed by many to be a publication OF
value to none but those interested I'm
mechanical and scientific pursuits. No
/ impression could be more erroneous,
aud no man of affairs or searcher after
that general Information which makes
an all round well informed man can
read the following list OF titles Of arti-
cles in the February number without
deciding that it contains much of popu-
lar interest: The Words Fair and In
dustrlal Art; The Great Wall of China;
! State-Owned Railways In Australia;
Progress in Pneumatic Transmission;
! The Timber Problem in the South;
| Railroad Development in Africa; Prac-
tlcal Farming by Electricity; Modern
Uses Of the Windmill; Fire Losses in
Fire Proof Buildings; Mexico as an
Producing Country.
Life and Death Of Jay Could, and
How He Made His Millions" j. j, Ogil-
vie, New York, Frank Stanton, Wheel
! ing, paper, Csc, is just what the name
/ indicates.
"Who? When? and What?" birds
eye view of civilization, 1850 to 1880;
Authors, Inventors, DISCOVERIES, Artists
and Musicians, is the shortest road yet
opened TO knowledge. 1t must prove
very valuable TO students OF history as
well as TO others. 1t is published by
William Beverly Harrison, SO Fifth ave-
nue., New York.
advice to Women on the Care OF the
Health Before, During and After Con-
! fnement," by Florence Stacpoole, diplo-
NEE OF the London Obstetrical Society,
and lecturer 10 the London Health So
clety; paper, SOC; J. 5. Ogilvie, New
York, Frank Stanton, Wheeling; is a
work Of more than ordinary value TO
those Ia need OF such advice. IL speaks
plainly but not vulgarly, and offers
much information.
gs"The Evolution OF an Empire" is a
| brief historical sketch Of Germany, by
| Mary Parmele, author OF Who? WhenP
and What?" William Beverly Harrison,
/ 50 Fifth avenue, New York. Cloth,
gilt, S1.00. Mrs. Parmele, whose previ-
Gus work, "Who? When? and What?'
| has proved such a useful reference
chart to students of history, litera-
/ ture and art, has begun series
/ Of outline histories Of which this is the
| first A few vivid strokes portray Ger
many from the Aryan migrations, TO
William II. The book may be read 10
two hours--but we venture to say that
the reader or student will have learned
from It's brief pages more than from
many imposing volumes, wherein a
super1uity of details hopelessly obscures
the grand lines in the march OF events.
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