The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-04

Illustrative documents and pictures, and
the anecdotes and recollections of Grant
by Longstreet, Frost, Franklin, and oth-
err of his contemporaries at West Point.
evolves the composed, capable, disciplined
lieutenant from the rustic Ohio school
boy in very lifelike and entertaining
way, There is an honest flavor of reality
also in an illustrated paper describing the
making and laying of an Atlantic cable.
The fiction of the number has the usual
Mcclure vigor and freshness and there
are two most romantic stories that are
not fiction. One is Ida Rose McCabe's
history of the celebrated Martha Wash
ington" case. The other is Capt. Mus
grove Davis account of his subjugation
of tough Bowery regiment that had
conspired to bully him out of his COM
mand. The S. S. Mcclure Co., 141-l55 East
Twenty-fifth street. New York City.
One of the first articles in the January
number of the Century likely to attract
the attention of the reader is a new story
by Chester Bailey Fernald, author of
THE Cat and the Cherub," and THE
Parlous Wilderness of Ephraim," a writer
whose literary work is identified with this
magazine. The title is THE Lights of
Sitka," and it exhibits this already YER
satile story teller in an entirely new vein.
The installment of DIR. s. Weir Mitchell s
serial, Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker,
deals with Hughs waywardness, and the
subsequent reaction towards a more seri-
Gus and stable life. Gen Horace Porter,
in his Campaigning With Grant" conun-
ueS his series of anecdotes Incidents ana
descriptions of the movement upon Rich
mond in 1864, and there is a picture by
the late c. S. Reinhart of Grants passage
to the left on the night of the third day
in the Wilderness. A paper richly illus
trated by Mr.. Castaigne on Public Spirit
in Modern Athens is contributed by Mr..
D. Bikelas, as the leading literary man of
Greece. Mr.. r. w. Glider contributes a
poem entitled THE Parthenon by Moon
light" 'Napoleon's Interest in the Bat
tie of New Orleans" is the subject of a
short article by William Hugh Roberts.
Capt. Alfred T. Mahan, the distinguished
writer on naval affairs, contributes
paper on Nelson in the Battle of the
Nile" with pictures. portraits, maps, etc.
The century Company Union square,
New York
The January Arena is one of the very
best numbers ever issued by that periodi-
cal The contents are diversified, and
nearly every article possesses some spec
ial interest. Probably the most revolu-
tionary of them is entitled "A Court Of
Medicine and Surgery" by A. r. Choate.
Gen. Herman Haupt contributes Finance
and Currency" very strong presenta-
ton of the argument for bimetallism. In
Restore Metz to France" with map)
that we'll known naturaliZed American
citizen born subject of Prussia VINO
chooses to call himself 'Pan-Aryan,"
makes the startling proposition that Ger
many celebrate the opening of the twen-
Ill, frDA rrffk IN
France OF the French-speaking portion of
Alsace-Loraine. He says it would be
"the noblest act in history" His paper is
exceedingly we'll written. Calves Home
and a Few of Her Friends" are described
in a gossipy and entertaining manner by
George e. Cook, who last summer met the
diva on her native heath in the Gorge Of
the Tarn in Southern France, in which
neighborhood Calve has bought the old
chateau Cabrieres. NJ. II. Gulesian, ma
tive Armenian, in "England's Hand in
Turkish Massacres," lays the responsible
ity for the Armenian massacreS on Great
Britain and quotes the Duke of Argyll at
length and with telling effect, as well as
other Englshmen, to sustain his position.
The foregoing are only a few of the good
things of the number. The Arena Pub
fishing Company, Pierce building, Copley
Square, Boston, Mass.
The National Magazine for January mas
a very fine table of contents. The iilustra-
lions are superb. Christ and His Time"
by Dallas Love Sharp is a deeply interest
ing article and the interest is increased by
many pictures of a high class THE Chi
cago Stock Yards by Edmund s. Hoch,
is another illustrated article that is well
worth reading. bethlehem To-day" by
Frank G. Carpenter is full of interesting
information and is superbly illustrated.
The Bostonian Publishing Company, SO
Newberry street, Boston, Mass.