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up the educational and social problems
with series of papers by Elaine Good
ale Eastman, which will deal with
Child Culture in the Home Kath-
arine E. Junkermann contributes the
first article on 1.-The Cultivation of the
Speaking Voice." and Sallie Joy White.
will continue throughout the year her
cookery lessons for girls. Che newest
departure has been the addition of
club-woman's corner, conducted by Ber-
tina Damaris Knobe, giving prominence
to such subjects heard in clubdom as
will interest womankind.
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The frontispiece of the "New Eng
land Magazine" for January (Boston
is a reproduction from a painting by
c. Ooms entitled, Reading Forbidden
Books in the Netherlands. This ap-
pears in connection with an article on
1.-The Pilgrim Press in Leyden,' by
Rev. William Elliot Griffis. The ar
ticle is fully illustrated. Another i'm
portant article is the finely illustrated
paper on "a Great French Sculptor
G. b. Carpeaux), by Camille Thur
wanger. No better brief history of the
CITY VI l1OW CiI, ASldS-o.s has y ~ eAPP>~~-~~
than the Character Sketch of Low
ell"-the joint work of Judge Samuel
p. Hadley and Miss Mabel Hill. Under
the title "The Passenger Traffic of
Boston and the Subway" George G.
Crocker. of the Boston Transit Com
mission, contributes a capital article.
In Early New England A1manacs,'
Mrs Annie Russell Marble gives an in
teresting account of the pioneer al
manacs of Cambridge and Boston Ed
ward Everett Hale contributes
Christmas and New Years sermon en-
titled "Out of the Mouth of Cars"
Dr. William e. Barton's plantation
Hymns" in the December issue is sup
plemented by a second paper, Songs
of the Slave and Freedman" There are
several good poems, while in the line
of fiction there is Legend Of Swan
Island,' by John Stuart Barrows: "A
Canal-Boat Episode by Annie E. P.
Soaring. and "A Mind Reader" by
Abbie Farwell Brown. The Editors
Table deals with the question of better
homes for the poor in Boston, taking
up in this connection the work being
done by the Twentieth Century Club in
reviewing the book just issued by the
residents of the South End House, en-
titled 1.-The City Wilderness
''McClure's Magazine for January
(New York; in two articles on the Lake
submarine boat gives its readers the
double sensation of inspecting a really
new and extraordinary adventure. No
man, since the days of Jonah, has made
a more curious voyage than that which
Ray Stannard Baker describes as taken
by himself and the artist w. D. Stew
ems in the Lake boat. The boat drops
down to the bottom of the sea, and
there traverses the ground precisely
like an automobile road wagon; and
from it divers step out through door
on to the sea bottom, as they might
step out of a house into a garden, and
go spading and hoeing among wrecks.
An adventure somewhat akin to that
of Mr.. Baker and Mr.. Stevens, was a
ride from London to Glasgow the
locomotive of the Scotch Express the
pre-eminent flyer of England), taken
by Stephen Crane, the novelist, and the
late W. L. Sonntag, Jr, the artist. Mr..
Crane tells the Story III MS oWH Vl'iu,
striking way. In the same number
Miss Tarbell gives an account of Lin
coins first Inauguration as President,
drawn largely from unpublished remin-
iscences of people who witnessed it;
and from similar "reminiscences she
constructs a most interesting portrait
of Lincoln as he appeared in his first
meetings with his Cabinet and through
the first days Of his residence in the
White House. Captain Mahan de-
scribes and compares the naval and
military conditions of ourselves and
Spain at the outbreak of the recent
war. Stenhen Rousal gives some more