Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-02-14
NUMBER 80.
LITERARY NOTES.


March Popular Science Monthly with
severe arraignment of prohibition,
under the title Abolish all Prohibitiye
Liquor Laws. Mr.. Morgan maintains
that these laws have been procured by
means of falsehood, that they are
broken with impunity, that they stim-
ulate the production of dangerous
artificial liquors, and that the attempts
to enforce them waste vast sums of
money that might be used to put
real check upon drunkenness.
The Review of Reviews for February
is strong in all of its departments In
the Progress of the World the i'm
portant political. social and industrial
events of the monthsare reviewed and
their significance clearly and frankly
set forth. This department alone con.
talns fifty timely illustrations, chiefly
portraits OF well-known men and
women. Among the portraits are
those of President Dole and his cabinet
and sketches, drawn from life. of Rep
resentatives William l.. Wilson, of
West Virginia: Charles f. Crisp, of
Georgia: Thomas Il. Reed, of Maine!
Benton Mcmillan. of Tennessee; Thom3
as l.. johnson, of Ohio, and julius c..
Burrows. of Michigan. Apropos of the
opening of the Manchester Ship Canal,
the editor discusses that and various
other waterway projects which are
being considered by European gov
ernmentS.
Mr.. w. T. Stead, the distinguished
London editor, has been in America
Tor some weeks, part of which time
has been spent in Canada. Mr.. Stead
has long been a warm friend of Lord
and Lady Aberdeen, and his recent
sojourn at Ottawa as the guest of the
Governor-General has resulted in a
very readable and complete character
sketch of Lord Aberdeen and his ac-
comptshed wife, which appears in the
January number of the Review of
Reviews. The article is one which
Will be interesting in North America
on both sides of the boundary line and
interesting also in Great Britain. The
article is profusely and attractively
illustrated. 1t is followed by sum-
married report of the address given by
Mr.. Stead in Toronto upon the mission
and destiny of Canada, in which Mr.
Stead dwells especially upon the posi-,
ton of Canada as a connecting link be-
tween the British and American halves
of the English-speaking race
The color plates of The Art Amateur
for February are an eXquisitely natur-
al study of pink roses-strikingly
deceptive in its resemblance to the
original oil painting-and a ''Sunset
on the Sound" in water-colors. The
working designs in the supplement
are treasure for the china and glass
painter, the wood carver and the lover
of art needleworl. For the church
embroiderer, Mr.. G.. A. Audsley fur
nishes two fullsize designs of stoles,
with directions for working them.
The practical character OF all the in
structIons accompanying the designs
published in The Art Amateur is one
of the most valuable features of this
sumptuous magazine. A double page
is devoted to the portrait head of
pretty girl-a simple study in charcoal;
for the frontispiece, j. G.. Brown con-
tributes one of his characteristic news
boys; j. C.. Phillips has a page of
studies of Southern Negroes, capitallv
drawn in pen-and ink; and there are
fullpage wood engravings, and land
scapes and floral decorations. The
practical articles include china paint
ing, oil. water-color, pastel and tapes
try painting: attractive home interiors
are illustrated, and the important art
exhibitions of the month are fully and
critically noticed. Montague Marks,
publisher, % Union Square, New York.
Among the January magazines, The
New Peterson is one of the very best.
The list of contributors holds various
OF the most popular names of the day,
and the writers have given their best
work. The Story of Statue by
Edgar Fawcett, promises to be his fin
est short novelette,. Howard Seelv
has won a fresh triumph in his Castle
Grumble." The opening article, "Act-
ors and Audiences of Other DAYS." by
FATTY Pemberton hermann, is full of
incidents and anec-
dotes, and the illustrations are from
rare old engravings never before re-
produced in this country. The most
written about American author in
England and this country is Louise
Chandler Moulton, and everything
from her pen is eagerly read and
always delightful reading; but she has
done nothing in the way of reviewing
more artistic than her paper on Coul-
son Kernahan's Work in literature.
very large edition of his new volume.
''A Book of Strange Sins" was ex.
hausted in London on the day it
appeared. "A Hindoo Legend" by NJ
e. McClelland, is a veritable gem.
Quebec" and "a Daughter of Peru
gia" arc not only as interesting as they
are unlike, but the illustrations of
both papers are beautiful. The poems
are by Florence Earle Coates, Charles
Coleman, and other dis
singers. The "Fireside" is
varied and attractive, with
some six or seven short articles bv
Minot ]. Savage, Professor J. Howard
Gore, etc.