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The Nav number of The Forum continues
the analysis OF the present interesting and
peculiar political situation with two articles
on "a Year of the Democratic Administra-
tion:p one by Ex-Governor Russell. of Massa-
chusetts, from the Democratic point of view;
and the other, from the Republican point of
view, by Senator Cullom, Of Illinois. In this
number The Forum continues the discussion
of Current Plans for Reforming Society. F"
DIR. Stanton Colt argues for the necessity OF
State aid, whereas Mr.. D. McGregor Means
presents arguments to show the dangerous
a~bsurdity of this policy.
President Eliot of Harvard soon COM
pletes the twenty-fifth year of his Presi-
dency, and President Charles +. Thwing of
Western Reserve University, himself a Har-
ward man, reviews President Eliot's career
and the history of Harvard in the meantime;
and be makes a comparison with the presi-
Dental service of several great educators.
President G.. Stanley Hall of Clark Univer-
sity writes this month on the upward move
ment of European universities and their
training of professors. He takes up also the
delicate subject of the proper training of
youth at puberty. Mr.. Edward Atkinson
has given much time and labor, with the
help of the census Office at Washington, to
the statistics OF farm mortgages, and he
writes for the May Forum to show that
their true meaning is that the owners of
land are much less in debt than they former
ly were; that they have made great prog
ress in thrift and prosperity, n that
there is nothing in the statistics
of farm mortgages to give any concern.
The necessity of taxing church property as a
restraining influence on great ecclesiastical
corporations, as well as in the interest of fair
play and sound religion, is forcibly set forth
by the Rev. Madison c. Peters of the Bloom
ingdale Reformed Church, New York City.
Mrs. Eliza 9TH Stuart Phelps Ward, in an
1900 -. tsTe Faith, g.. =, Et,{x,x.a
Life Declining!' gives the evidence afforded
by the vast volume OF letters which she has
received since the publication of 1.-The Gates
Ajar," to show that there is no decline in the
belief in immortality. Mr.. Price Collier, an
entertaining American resident in London.
writes an interesting paper comparing
home life in England with home life in
America. Miss Mary E. Laing of
the Wisconsin State Normal School
contributes an interesting paper on Child
study. In which she shows a suggestive
method of keeping a complete record of the
development of her pupils. MIR. Louis
Windmuller points out the continued de-
preston in several Of the most important
branches of industry, such as the manufac-
ture of iron and wool and cotton, and shows
how trade vet waits on the action Of the
Senate with regard to the tariff. Mr.. J..
Castell Hopkins of Toronto contributes to
this number an equally interesting paper on
the House of Lords.
A Glance Ahead.
The June Ha7per's will open with a de-
scription of Philadelphia by a Philadelphian,
G. Belmont Davis, who describes it as 1.-THE
City Of Homes The paper will be hand
soniely illustrated. Alfred Parsons, whose
pictures of Japanese landscapes and foliage
have attracted much attention, will contrib
ute an article on 1.-THE Japanese Spring
with t~wenty-three pictures by the author.
w. d. Howells will contribute another chap
ter Of his personal reminiscenses of the New
England of thirty years ago, and George
w. SInalley will relate bis most interesting
recollections of Wendell Phillips. The NUM-
Der will contain Constant Fenimore Wool
sons last story, "a Waitress, . a tale Of
Americans in Italy. together with three
other complete short stoiIes:-"Littl Big
Horn Medicine by Owen Wister, a story
Of the frontier; "In Search Of Local Color
q vignette of Manhattan, by Brander Matt
hews, and Goods Ravens q sketch OF the
Middle West, by Hamlin Garland.
sHome and Country'' for May.
The table of contents of the May number
embraces the following
in the Love-God's Domain, y by Frederick
Hammond Summer Days on Cape Cod
by Alvan G. Nye; stThe Union Soidier-He
Seeks Justice, Not Charity by Hon. John
A. Picker. NJ. C.: The Sociology of Ami
mails, . by James It. Richards; IAN Error
and Its Consequence; "a Story of Depart
Nichols; People Seen in Constantinople,n
by Thomas NJ. Carpenter; "How / Stepped
Onto the Platform, . by Captain Jack Craw-
ford; Are Women Mentally inferior to
Men!'' by r. j. Amy; Artificial Flowers"
by Mary SurTnan, etc, etc.