The Republican journal., 1897-02-04
Literary News and Notes.

Literary NEWS ana Notes,
Senator David B. Hill has written an
! able paper for the February number of
The Forum on the Future of the Demo
cratic Organization.
The frontispiece of the February Re-
view of Reviews is a magnificent portrait
OF King Oscar of Sweden and Norway
who has been selt cted as umpire under
the general arbitration treaty between the
United States and Great Britain.
Harper's Weekly for January 3Oth
contains an deliberately illustrated article
on New York S new plan for rapid transit.
The front page of the same number has
drawing by W. A. Rogers of the sign
ing of the Treaty of Peace between Great
Britain and the United States.
The Present aud Future of Cuba is
the title of an interesting and important
article that will appear in the February
Forum from the pen Of Mr.. Fidel D. Pier
IA, chairman of the Cuban Press Delega-
ton. 1t is an able and impartial account
OF the progress and present condition of
| the Cuban revolution
In Harper's Bazaar of January Both
there is very thoughtful paper by
Elizabeth Cynthia Barney on SEQ Educa-
ton at the University College, London"
and timely article by Miss Metcalf on
Exercise for Women Miss Metcalf
is we'll known under her pseudonym of c.
de Hurst and is the author of an excellent
manual entitled How Women Should Ride
W. Clark Russell contributed to Har
per's Round Table published January 26th,
| q anti lad
same issue Cyrus c. Adams, the autho-
| llty on Africa, has paper entitled THE
/ Fighting Savage,'' which enters into the
semi barbarous methods of meeting the
! civilized armies of Europe in warfare;
Emma j. Gray contributes ''The Chill
| dren's Hour" John kendrick Bangs de-
scnbes some more of the Remarkable
| Adventures of Sandboys;'' and there are
! instruments OF the serial stories "a LOYAL
/ Traitor" by James Barnes, and 1.-THE
Middleton Bowl" by Ellen Douglas De
| land.
! From U. S. Commissioner of Education.
the Hon. VIM. I. Harris very sugges-
tive 1.-The New Education' to Miss Gen
evieve Thorndike Clark's 'sOn the Thresh=
old: Psychic Experience is a far cry,
but the February Arena spans the gap,
/
tertainment on the way The subjects of
the number are varied, all are of the deep
est interest, several of the most instant
| importance. The number is a brilliant
one, and review of it and of the January
| issue, made in connection with a compar-
son with the numbers for several months
preceding, shows that The Arena of late
is vlslbly on the upward grade. There
| are five excellent portrait illustrations,
DE-. Harris, Carducci, and three groups of
officers of 1.-THE National Council of Wo-
men of the United States''
John Coleman Adams contributes to
| the February number of the New England
Magazine the most valuable article upon
William Hamilton Gibson which has ap-
peared since Mr.. Gibson's death. He
ranks Mr.. Gibson with Thoreau and John
Burroughs, at the head of American low
ers and reporters of nature, and analyses
with rare appreciation and discrimination
MI. Gibson's special powers. Mr.. Glib
son was great artist in his field, he was
a most charming writer, and he was a
true scientific man, and Mr.. Adams stud
les him faithfully in all these aspects.
His paper is one of unusual interest, and
it is made very interesting by the admir-
ably selected illustrations which illumin-
ate its pages-including fine portrait of
Gibson, copies Of several of his pictures,
and views OF the places associated with
his life and dear to him.
BY far the most complete account of the
many sided career and public services of
the late Gen. Francis A. Walker that has
appeared anywhere since his sudden death
early in January is published in the Feb
ruary Review of Reviews. A character
sketch by Joseph j Spencer reviews Gen
| eral Walkers life as a student LAWYER
soldier, adjutant- general on Hancock's
staff, journalist, teacher, government
statistician, census commissioner writer
on economics, historian, and educational
administrator. Prof. Davis R. Dewey
treats in more detail of General Walkers
services in the army, as head of the cen
sus bureau, as a political economist, and
as president of the Massachusetts Institute
OF Technology, and discusses particularly
President Walker relations to the none
tary questions of the day. The articles
are illustrated with portraits of General
| Walker at different ages
The Perkins Institution for the Blind
was the first important school for the
blind in America, and it remains the most
important one. Its history has never
been so we'll told, nor it's work so inter
estingly detailed, as by DR.. Samuel Eliot
in the New England Magazine for Febru-
airy. The remarkable devotion and efforts
of Dr. Howe in the early days of the in
stitution, when he was a pioneer in paths
in which he has been so usefully follow
! ed by so many, are brought before us i'm
pressively by DR.. Eliot, and the expert
ence in the institution of Laura Bridg-
man and other pupils constitutes an i'm
portant feature of the articles. We are
given great number of pictures by way
OF illustration of Dr. Howe
and his associates, views of the institu-
ton and glimpses of a score of its class
rooms. The article is one of rare interest
and Importance. Warren F. Kellogg, 5
Park Square, Boston, Mass.