The morning news., 1897-02-01


girl, saw much of them. Mrs. Bayne de-
scribes the pranks of the Lincoln boys,
and tells of a minstrel show that was
given in the white house.
Under the head of Browning and the
Larger Public" the Review of Reviews
for February publishes two articles of
more than ordinary interest. Dean Far
rar treats of 1.-The Significance of Brown
ing's Message dwelling particularly on
the poets optimism. while the warden OF
Browning Ham, in South London. Mr..
f. Herbert Stead, writes on Browning
as the Poet of the Plain People" MIR.
Stead declares that Browning has too long
been regarded as the exclusive property
of the learned
In McClure's Magazine for February Mr..
II. ]. w. Dam has a particularly inter-
esting article on The Making of the
Bible" First it describes by what strange
and almost miraculous means narratives
of which the original records have utterly
perished, survived in fair integrity through
centuries of turmoil and confusion; and
next it describes the finely wrought, typ
Icaly modern, instrumentalitieS and APP
pliances by which those nara tives are to-
day published to the world in all its va
ried languages, by the million copies,
through the oxford University Press.
BY far the most complete account of
the many-sded career and public SER
vices of the late Gen. Francis A Walker
that has appeared anywhere since his
sudden death early in January is pub
lished in this number. A character
sketch by Joseph J. Spencer reviews Gen.
walkers life as student, lawyer, sol
der, adjutant general on Hancocks staff,
journalist, teacher, government statisH-
clan, census commissioner, writer on
economies historian and educational ad-
ministratof. The articles are illustrated
with portraits of Gen. Walker at differ
ent ages. Review of Reviews Company,
l3 Astor Place, New York
An article of the highest value in the
same number is Mr. Hamlin Garland $
account of Grant in the Mexican War"
1t is original and important both in its
point of view and in it's material The
personal recollections of Gen. Longstreet
and others who fought beside Grant
through the war, and two unpublished
letters written by Grant himself from the
field, describing the movements and op-
erationS of the army, combine with the
rest OF the paper to exhibit, in their first
exercise, those peculiar qualities of faith
luiIleSS, COOlueSSs SaSdclty ana modest
heroism which later made Grant the inev-
liable leader in the civil war. The paper
is fully illustrated. S. S. Mcclure Co,
l4l-loo Twenty-fifth street, New York city.
Lippincotts for February has fine
table OF contents. The complete novel
entitled Under the Pacific is by Clar-
ence Herbert New. The author has
drawn upon personal experience in the
Orient to give an interesting account of
how two average business men would
plan and carry out a successful attempt
to recover treasure from the submerged
hulk of a Spanish galleon, which is sup
posed to have been wrecked upon a coral
reef i'll the Ladrone Archipelago in 1863.
The story also describes in a realistic
manner the delightfully."- irresponsible
life of Spanish colonists among these
picturesque islands which, to-day. are
the least known spots upon the globe, and
is accompanied by a chart showing their
relation to the Philippines. j. b. Lippin-
colt Company, Philadelphia.
Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer, has pa
per on places in New York. describing
picturesque scenes in the city Mrs. Van
Rensselaer, is an inspector of common
schools, and her official visitations have
that are unknown to a majority of New
Workers. Her subjects range from the
slums to the opera. The article will be
illustrated by Lungren, Potthast, Fraser
and others. Joseph Jefferson, the actor,
is also an artist, and is greatly interested
in the revival of an old-time method of
picrure-making, painting upon copper
from which single print is taken on pa
per. In this number there is an article
by William A. Coffin on these Mono
types" Among the monotypes reproduce
ed in the article is one by Jefferson him
self, the original of which is in the Play
ers' Club in New York; another shows
him at work in his studio. Capt Mahan
has paper on Nelson in the Battle of
Copenhagen" Stephen Crane, author of
The Red Badge of Courage" who was
recently shipwrecked on a filibustering
vessel while on his way to Cuba, has a
story in new vein. 1t is called "A Man
and Some Others" and is a tale of the
western plains. The Century Company,
Union Square, New York.
Oil Portraits of American Fishes
The land of animals, insects and flow
ers of America have been very generally
studied by specialists and painted from
life, ever since the days of Audubon,
whose aruduous field work and portrait
ure in colors of our native birds have made
the publication of his great work on or
anthology an epoch in the 1T
erature of the natural history
of North America. But the asn
fauna of our waters have been neglected
in respect to their portraiture in coors,
although our knowledge of fish life has
made rapid progress through the work ~
the United States fish commission, ap-
pointed in 1870. and the efforts of a num-
Der of state commissions, since that year,
but no systemized collection of our ma
tive fishes in their life coloration has evo=
been made until Mr.. William c. Harris,
editor OF the American Angler, New York,
undertook the difficult work of painting
them from life at the moment they were
taken alive from the water. In this great
task he has been engaged for nearly hf-
teen years, and has just returned with
his artist. from an extended tour of over
five months on the Pacific slope, where
he obtained portraits from life of the sal
mons OF Puget sound those of the noun
ta.ns of Idaho; the saltwater fishes of
the California coast and the trouts of the