St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-01

| amateur detective work. Other contributions
| to the same number are by Mrs. Burton Har-
rison, Kipling, R. H. Stoddard and Robert w.
| Chambers.
"The Ship That Found Herself" in Nc
Clure's for the month"; is one of the best and
most characteristic pieces Of work Kipling
has given us of late. Lost YOUTH" one of
| the most exquisite bits of verse Stephenson
ever wrote, is reprinted in the same magazine
Cleveland Moffett writes exhaustively and in
| terestingly of Scientific Kite-Flying."
In ''The Field of Art in the March
Scribner, there is a discussion of the archi-
tectural possibilities Of very tall structures
in which the New York Life building in
st. Paul. is referred to as IAN architectural
triumph" in the way in which its eleven
stories managed
An article on bee ranching in California
serves as antidote to the fourth of Caspar
Whitneys papers on the Barren Grounds
in the new Harper. Prof. Wilson's papers
on Washington and Mr.. Bigelow'S articles on
''The German Struggle for Liberty are con-
tinued. Julian Ralph has a story of Chi
nese politics, and Owen Wister contributes
| Western sketch quite in his best vein.
The March St. Nicholas is full of interest
ing matter for young readers One of the
articles which will be found absorbing by
older people as we'll Is What Lydia Saw
an account as told by an eyewitness Of the
great eruption of the Souffriere Of St. Vim
cent, one of the smaller West India isles,
which occurred in 1872.
The two articles in the Ladies' Home Jour-
nal for the month which attract the most
Eugene Field which the exacting author re-
vised seven times before it pleased him, and
''Paderewski in His Daily Life by John ].
a Beckett. The illustrations to this article in
clude pictures of the pianist as a
child of seven, a smooth-headed boy of
fourteen and youth of nineteen.
"The Perils of Small Talk" is the piquant
title of a three-page article in the Century
by DR.. Allan McLane Hamilton, the alienist,
who sets forth the relations of slang and I'M
Mrs. Humphrey Wards "Sir George Tres
sadly" reaches it's fifth installment, and in
cludes quarrel between Sir George and his
mother and revelation Of her extrava-
gances, which make crisis in the life Of
the Tressadys Another episode represents
Tressady in the act of acquiring informa-
The Bookman says that writer burst ra-
diantly into New York publishers Office the
other day. He had conceived a brilliant Idea
nothing less than a compilation of ''The
Wit and Wisdom of Congress" beginning
with the Fifty-fourth session. But the pub
Usher Skeptical.
CosmopoIis, the new international review
published by T. Fisher Unwin. has already
taken prominent place among the good
things periodical literature has to offer us.
The idea of magazine containing representa-
tive articles in each of the three chief Ian
guages of civilization was nothing short Of
an inspiration. Readers Of French and Ger
man periodicals have long desired judicious
English editing for them, and this Cosmopo-
lis furnishes. The February number con-
tains brilliant study of Dumas and the
English Drama" by William Archer. which
it is interesting to compare with the "Alex-
andre Dumas of Gustave Larroumet, and
der Jungere Dumas in Deutschland" by
Karl Frenzel. The subject of international
arbitration. anent the Venezuelan matter, is
also discussed by experts in three languages.
There is a representative IN each tongue, the
''Gyp," and Peter Rosegger, and feast Of
critical and historical articles. including the
conclusion Of Edouard Pods Movement
des Idees en- France" and Gabriel Moned
upon "Le Jubile des Nibelungen."