Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-04-01
THE APRIL MAGAZINES.

McCure'- Magazine for April will contain
four short stories by new writer's. 1t is re.
marked as significant of a turn from the re.
cent morbid ana discouraging tendency in tic-
ton that all of these new writers look upon
life with a decidedly cheerful eye.
one of the most painful and universal of
diseases, especially in countries with variable
climates, Is rheumatism An interesting re.
view OF this disease appears in the February
number of the Monthly CyclopHdia of Prac,
teal Medicine. 1t seems that the universal
microbe is an undoubted factor in this disease
no less than two kinds of bacilli having al
ready been discovered. The portion of the
article relating to the treatment is specially
interesting.
Each number of Scribners for 1898 has
marked the beginning of new feature. In
January senator Lodges "Story of the Revo-
ution" and Pages "Red Rock" began; in Feb
ruary, Captain Mah9ns first paper on naval
episodes of the Revolution; in March, Mr..
Wyckofs new series of his experiences
among "The Workers" and in the current
issue for April, the feature is the first part of
Richard Hariing Daviss short serial "The
Kings Jackal." This is the dramatic tale of
an exiled king, and the action takes place at
Tan gier in the space of thirty-six hours. 1t
contains some very good comedy scenes, and
the characters are of that cosmopolitan clever.
ness that Mr. Davis delights to depict. A
beautiful American heiress is the heroine, and
Il newspaper correspondent is the real hero.
Mr. Gibson will make a full page drawing for
each of the four parts of the story.
An important article in the April Harpers
on commercial Aspects of the Panama
Canal" is contributed by Worthington G..
Ford, who is chief of the bureau of statistics
ut Washington. Mr.. Ford discusses the effects
Of the isthmian canal on the commerce of the
world, and particularly on the commerce of
the United States. He points out that trade
with China a q
hopes of trade with Korea are destined to be
vain, and concludes by giving reasons for
doubling the immediate need of a caIal for
commercial purposes
The newly discovered gold region in Mexico
towards which movement has set i'm second
only to the klondlke migration, j. described
i'm an illustrated article contributed to the
American Monthly Review of Reviews by Mr..
II. -. slater.
The April Ladies' IL 1me journal opens with
"a drawing by Alice Barber stephens of an
Easter morning in IL church choir. Several
other illustrations take the great festal day
for "a theme; and an article on "The Last
Week i'm the Life of Christ" giving the incid-
ents of the SaviOur's persecution ana cruel
fl yion, is especially apropos of Holy Week
feature OF novel interest is the illustrated
unecdota! biography of Thomas \. Edison, i'm
which the characteristic traits of the great
inventor are told in n series of anecdotes
Joseph Bonapartes flight to America and So
iourn here is recalled in an article, "When the
King of Spain Lived on the Banks OF the
Schuykill." Miss Lillian Bell writes from Der.
lin her impressions of the Germans ana the
Fatherland.
All that is necessary for anyone TO obtain a
sample copy of the New England Homo Maya
zine, the high-class, - page publication given
free regularly with the Boston Sunday journal,
is simply to send a postal to the Boston Jour.
nal asking for a copy of the magazine. 1t is
this magazine which has attracted so wide
attention throughout New England tor the
beauty of its illustrations and the particular
attractiveness of its articles To New England
people. One of its strongest features is in
keeping well abreast of the times, giving at,
tenton to those subjects which are of espe.
cially current interest, and Illustrating them
in an accurate and artistic way.