The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-03
MARCH Magazines,

The University Bulletin Of the Uni
Versity of Pennsylvania is hereafter to
be issued monthly during the academic
year, from October to June, inclusive.
Briefly outlined, its purposes are ito
announce, from time to time, the es-
tablishment of new courses; to give
summary of university and faculty
legislation, where it's Importance war
rants such publication: to furnish in
formation regarding original research,
and to record the progress of literary
and scientific work at the University;
and finally, to give publicity to such
other matters of a general character
as may be deemed of interest to the
educational world"
To the March number Of the North
American Review a suggestive discus
sion of the question us the Constitu-
tion Outworn?' is contributed by Pro-
fessor Goldwin Smith. Under the title
of do Foreign Missions Pay?" the
Rev. Francis Il. Clark, ID. D., president
of the United Society of Christian En-
deavor, furnishes an authoritative and
carefully prepared paper. most inn
portant national subject is elaborately
treated in an article from the pen of
gineer, United States Navy, on "Our
Future on the Pacific-What We Have
There to Hold and Win" while Charles
+. Thwing. d. D.. President of Western
Reserve University and Adelbert Col
lege, contributes an essay of timely
interest on Personal Morals and Col
lege Government" The Right Rev.Wil-
liam Croswell Doane, Bishop Of Albany,
writes eloquently of Patriotism: Its
Defects, Dangers, and Duties" and
Lieutenant Colonel Rogalla Won Bic
bersten, of the German Army, deals
with the important problem Gould
Russia Take British India?" Space is
devoted to a consideration of THE
Need of Postal Reform" by the Hon.
T.. +. Loud, chairman of the Commit
tee on the PostofIice and Post Roads,
and an absorbing topic of the day, the
Intervention of the United States in
Cuba" receives luminous treatment
from John II. Latane. A second install
ment of "Recollections Of the Civil
War" by Sir William Howard Russell,
LII. D., increases the interest which
attaches itself to these vivid sketches
of that stirring time. Other topics in
terestingly treated are: ITO Purge the
Pension List" by ]. II. Girdner, NJ. D.:
"Have We Too Many Churches?" by
: 1he Rev. A. w. Quimby; Some Social
DAspects of School Teaching" by NJ. V.
O'Shea, and Masters and Slaves in
the Old South" by the Rev. ]. H. La
Roche.
The Century opens with a paper on
"The Mammoth Cave of Kentucky"
written by John II. Proctor, formerly
State Geologist of Kentucky. and illus
trated by Castaigne. John sidney webb
describes 'The River Trip to the Klon-
dixie" with pictures redrawn from pho
tographs. Last summer Mr.. Webb
made a tour of investigation along the
entire coast of Alaska, and up the Yu-
kon as far as the Klondike mines, on
behalf of the Alaska Commercial COM
pany. His investigations, therefore, in
cluded not only the famed KlOndike,
nut the other creeks and streams trib-
utary to the Yukon. Edward S. Cur
tis tells of The Rush to the Klondike
over the Mountain Passes" also illus
trated from photographs. Jonas Stad-
ling, the Swedish journalist who de-
scribed for the Century "Andree's Flight
Into the Unknown" gives an account
of the remarkable recovery by the kill
ing of a carrier pigeon of the sole mes
sage from the aeronaut. Mrs. Sara y.
Stevenson, in her series of graphic
papers dealing with the French Inter-
vention in Mexico, pictures Mexican
Society in MaXimilian's Time, 1866"
John Burroughs writes in his most
sympathetic vein of the Songs of
American Birds" There is paper by
Richard r. Ely on "Fraternalism VS..
Dot 1;s.,,, Co.
James S. Clarkson tells of the circum-
stances under which Gen. Grant wrote
and delivered his famous Des Moines
speech. The fiction of this number is
Enthusiastically good.
The March number of st. Nicholas
has for a frontispiece a drawing by
George Wharton Edwards. "A Milk
maid of Dordrecht." The opening
paper is by w. S. Harwood, and is de-
voted to "rhe Great Lakes" Mr.. Har-
wood has gathered many interesting
facts about these vast inland seas.
thei" history, peculiarities, and scenic
grandeur, and he also tells of the vast
amount of commerce that passes
through them. There are many illus
trations including number of strik-
ing pictures Of lake navigation. "A
Giant Candle" is description of
spectacular feature of the Swedish EX-
position, and incidentally an account
of candle-making in Sweden. Frank
r. Stockton tells of the adventures and
fitting end of the famous French pirate
LClonrois, i'm his series of narrative
sketches Of THE buccaneers of Our
Coast" In Clement Fezendie's fairy
tale of science, Through the Earth, -
the hero experiences some remarka BILE
effects of graVitaticn. There is, Of
course, much other information and
entertainment for old readers as we'll
as young.
An entirely new and remarkable
phase of Walter A. Wycoff's experience
as a day-laborer is begun in Scribner's
with THE Workers-The West" A
certain idyllic quality was never far
distant from even his most sordid eN-
periences in the rural regions, which
made the first division of this nara
tive the most talked of serial feature Of
the year But in his new experiment
he plunges into the heart of a con-
gested labor market"-Chicago before
the Worlds Fair. Here he learned
what it was to look for work and fail
TO find it under the spur of hunger and
cold. His narrative differs from all
previous accounts of the slums and
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