Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-01-28
THE FEBRUARY MAGAZINES.

The next chapter of Charles A. Dana's
"Reminiscences of Men and Events of the
CIVIL War" (in the February McClure's} will
give Mr.. Dana's impressions of Rosecrans
Thomas and Garfield as he saw them social.
lv, and in council and in fight AT the time of
the battle of Chickamauga. 1t will give the
inner history of Thomas displacement of
Rosecrans The paper will he illustrated with
interesting portraits and views.
leading feature of the Eobrnarv Harper's
is the first part of an article by George du
Maurier, entitled "Social Pictorial Satire, "
which deals with the great satirists OF Punch
The Illustrations are from drawings by John
Leech, one of which, "Mr. and Mrs. Caudle,"
in reproduced in color as the frOntispiecc
Other features are "Proiects for an Isthmian
Canal by Hon DaVid Turpie; "Stuttgart .
The Modern City" by Elise j. Allen, richly
| illustrated by Joseph Pencil; "Roan Bar.
barry" novelette, of the turf, by George Hib.
bard; "Some Americans from OVERSEE" n
description by Kirk Monroe, fully illustrated,
OF his adventures among the Icelandcrs and
Russians of North Dakota.
What "coming home" meant to the veterans
OF Lees army after the war is painted with
pathos and strength by Thomas Nelson Page
in the second instalment of his novel of re.
construction, "Red Rock" As the reader adj
vances into this story, he realizes that Mr..
rage has associated Inarvelously enter
tanning story with a great and comparatively
unknown era. 1t ought to stand as the most
veracious picture of those dark times. From
literary point of view, il shows that MIR
Page can write a long novel of sustained
power-tor which his years of apprentice.
snip as writer of exquisite short stories has
prepared him.
Cuba, Hawaii and China furnish the princi.
pal topics discussed editorially in the Amer
lean Monthly Review of Reviews for Febru
any. There are also n few paragraphs of
nOiptpH comment
tics-the fractional differences among ohio
Republicans and the swelling tide OF Croker.
ism in the Democratic party. The editor
gives his views on Tammany's attitude tow.
ard the New York rapd-transit problem and
on the reckless expenditure of canal-improve.
ment funds by the Republican bosses OF the
state.
With its February issue The Forum com
pletes its twenty-fourth volume, which shows
a manifest advance when compared with
many of its predecessors. The leading arti.
Gle in the current number is contributed by
the president of the International Geograph
zeal Congress- Sir Clements X. Markham, H.
c. b.. on "Antarctlc Exploration and its I'm.
portance." While numerous North-Polar ex-
petitions have been undertaken during the
past quartercentury, with the result of large
additions to our knowledge of Arctic lands,
it is more than fifty years since any organic
ed attempt was made TO solve the South
Polar problem
1.-THE Flower Fetes of California" and Get
ting Good Pictures of Children" are striking
pictorial features of the February Ladies'
Home journal, and "Inside of Il Hundred
Homes" Is full of artistic suggestions for the
practical housewife. Edward w Box pro.
tests against the niggardly contributions OF "A
penny to church collections, and gives the
working-girl advice as to where her best
chances are to be found. Lillian Bell found
much to admire in the French women, and
"a. ~. nj.
She writes of both with customary frankness
in her Paris letter.