Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-21
BOOKS AND P~ERIODICALS.

going lnJO acJlOn ana Jne CdSuulJg llSJ
properly classified and prepared.
BOOKS y PERIODICALS.
of The California illustrated Magazine is a
letter of the ex-empresS oil Mexico, Carlotta
TO the duchess of Aosta. a readable contri-
button is Arthur lnkersley's The Land of
the Maorls. New Zealand" George Hamlin
Fitch replies to Hamlin Garland's article in
the Arena, showing that the west needs no
literary emancipation; that the demand
comes in the main from writers whose work
as a rule is not up to the standard. Clara
Spalding Brown gives an interesting de-
s~cription of q california Peanut Ranch"
and General n. p. Chapman scores President
Cleveland, claiming that he has exceeded
his rights. The Californian, San Francisco.
The Art Amateur opens the new year with
a wealth of and display In re-
markable contrast with the stinginess of the
month. 1t is a pleasure and inspiration to
read such articles as THE Painting of
Snow Designing After Nature "Tteo-
dore Dick and His Work" Tapestry Paint
ing'' and many others. In his Mote Book"
the editor (Mr. Marks) discusses the nation
atty of an artist who is born in one country
and partially educated (artistically) in an
other: he caustically comments on the mum
Der of paintings falsely attributed to great
masters, the limitations beng usually made
by clever handlers of the brush. Montague
Marks, % Union Square, New York.
THE Balance of international Trade Is
discussed by Daniel Strange in the January
number of the American journal of Politics.
The writer exposes the fact that some things
are mot considered'' in the figures ordinarily
basiug balance OF trade calculations, and
failing to locate the things mot considered"
jumps at erroneous conclusions. Tariff
Reform Blunders" exposes some gross flaws
in President Cleveland's recent message,
made also in the utterances of other tariff
reform authorities. S. B. Gordon presents
"a New System of Paper Money for consid-
GRAFTON. The price of the Journal is reduced
to 50 a year. A. j. Palm, ia Nassau street,
New York.
The current issue Of the Social Economist
prints a mastery review of the effects that
may be expected from The New Tariff
Bill" written by President Gunton of the
School of Social Economics. This writer
declares the bill "a complete failure that
without any principle does not decrease
taxation, will not secure honesty in the collec-
ton Of taxes, will not promote the industrial
development of the country. The free raw
material is shown TO be delusive and other
~fallacies are exposed. Other topics are ably
discussed and President Cleveland receives
a severe roasting in the Editorial Crucible,
School of Social Economies, Union Square,
New York.
Among the subjects discussed in the Janu-
airy Forum 1.-The Teaching Of Recent Econo-
mic Experiences" by David A Wells. at
tributes present hard times to popular igno-
II u CSOLOllllO lhN, SldiuIluS tldU IIllS
generation is singularly ignorant of some of
the fundamental laws of economics, - and by
inference the writer is a God Almighty
clothed with sole authority to determine out
of the reignlng economic chaos what are it's
true laws. Fundamental egoism of theorists
and preJensions to knowledge OF laws in q
study still too inharmonious to be classed a
science would far better define the cause of
recent troubles. 1.-The New Sectionalism-A
Western Warning to the East" is notewor-
thy paper that will attract much attention.
Price reduced to 25 cents. The Forum Pub
fishing company, Union Square, New York.
A new serial, "Trilby,' by George du
Maurier, is tho leading attraction in Janu-
airy Harper'S. There are two other stories
IN the number which have a serial character,
although complete in themselves. One is
ga Midsummer Night in Brander Mat
thews ''Vignettes of Manhattan" and the
other is the second OF William McLennan's
tales of the French Revolution, LAS Told to
His Grace" Owen Wister contributes a
striking story of western ranch life in which
the principal character is a high.strung
horse. Captain Napoleon Bonaparte at
Toulon" commentaries the centcnnialof the
Corsican's first appearance in an important
military engagement. 1t is written by Ger
main Bapst and illustrated from n hitherto
unpublished drawing, Junius Henri Browne
discusses "The Butter Question"
and the departments are filled with the
usual variety of comment, light verse and
humorous anecdote. Harper & Brothers,
New York.
The New Year number of The Engineer.
ing Magazine, covering 3SS pages, is devoted
TO a retrospect of the Worlds fair, embrace
ing special papers by notable writer's and a
very large collection of pictures of the fair.
The architectural, mechanical, electrical,
mining and transportation features of the
great exposition are capably treated by such
writer's as Henry Van Brunt, Robert III.
Thurston, Elihu Thomson, Rossiter w. Ray
mond, Colonel Henry q. Prout, and others of
like prominence. while Anurew Iarnnpia
discusses the value of the Worlds fair to the
American people, and General Alfred r..
Goshorn compares 1t with the Centennial
exhibition of 1876. The Illustrations artistic
cally portray an immense number OF i'm
portant mechanical and other exhibits in the
field to which this magazine is devoted.
The great array OF special matter here out
lined does not prevent the appearance in
their usual completeness and variety of the
editorial department, each article by an ac-
knowledged expert in his particular field.
The Engineering Magazine Company, Times
building, New York.
Under the caption, allow to Prevent n
Money Famine Commissioner Eckels, writ
ing in the January North American Review,
demonstrates very clearly his utter lack of
acumen and unftness TO treat abstruse prob
lens. AT the outset he compares the cur
rency problem with that of perpetual mo-
ton, confusing a problem self-contradicted
In it's statement with one not yet answered,
but involving no decentralization, much as
economists tumble and stumble in treating
il. All through there is an air of conceit
and self-superiority unwarranted by the ad-
mitted failures of his authorities TO achieve
harmony. 1.-The Hawaiian Situation by +.
II. Coudert, is a very telling indictment of
Minister Stevens. DINNERS aud Diners is
the subject of an interesting discourse by
Lady Jeune. Tariff and Business" is a
discussion of the DEFICIENCIES" in the Wilson
bill By Thomas b. Reed. Governor Waite OF
Colorado, in an article, Are the Silver
States Ruiled}" explodes the erroneous idea
by reviewing the vast resources In develop
ment. The North American Review, 8 East
| Fourteenth street, New York.
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