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Lincoln adopted her suggestion In 1864, when
there was reason to rejoice over the success
Of the North in restoring the Union.
Lady Curzon's father Mr.. L. z. Letter,
has been having Christmas experience
which was new to him. American fathers
in the role Of Santa Claus, are proverbially
generous, but even with the best intentions
in the world none Of them could have done
what Mr.. Letter has done. He is the first
American father who. after due elaboration
over the Christmas present problem, could
put down in his note book, along with the list
of presents for the rest of the family:
For Mary. vice-regal outfit.
For George, do. do.
Taking advantage of his opportunities these
are the gifts Mr.. Letter is reported to have
selected, and although Lord and Lady Curz-
on sailed for India before the holidays, they
carried the Daternal offerings with them
Lady CUTzon's wardrobe is said to eclipse
any ever sent to India Bills. for magnificent
trousseaux have been settled before this by
Chicago fathers; but among the un-American
novelties included in Mr.. Letters gift were
three Durbar (conference) cloaks tor Lord
Curzon. These were of velvet and gold.
One was pale blue, and one was ruby red
and one was pure white; while each had the
Star Of India in gold and diamonds How
far away Chicago must have seemed to Mr..
Letter when he was ordering these cloaks,
Much farther than Bagdad and the other
places OF the Arabian Nights Tales.-Harp-
ers Bazaar.
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they would like 1t twice well IL there
were half as much to learn. Many children
have I known but not one who loved study
for its own sake. Companionshlp is what
lures them.
Instead of wandering up and down the
wilderness OF wintry facts let them loiter
while among the dear illusions. The Happy
Valley of Childhood is but narrow, where the
golden water babbles to the talking bird and
the singing tree, where the sun always shines
and the years are summers. They who ad-
just the lead that presses so heavily on the
springs of life have much to account for.
Boston has been shaken by a solemn pro.
test from the city physician against the ruin
Gus manner in which children are overworked
Not the orphans in factories nor the poor
in the tenements, but in the handsome school
houses where the well-to-do send their sons
and daughters.
OF the icng-suffering teachers I can hard
~ trust myself to speak no nobler army OF
martyrs ever marched to chambers of tor
ture. Said one 81 begin the weekly reports
Monday before the lessons are recited else
I should never have them ready by Friday
night"
I have seen teachers carry home piles of
manuscript to be corrected, often spending
Saturday and Sunday at their desks. Most
dismal of tasks; no wonder the professional,
reader of manuscript goes crazy.
Said another, IT am so tired I do not go
to church. Unless L lie around and rest on
Sunday 1 cannot be ready for Monday. 1t
seems that to teach anything we must know
everything. We have to write essays
subjects that do not touch cur studies, and
there are the long meetings and the inst1
tutes.''
What about the institutes?" 1 asked 1t
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Porto RIcan Schools.

DR.. Carbonell, secretary of the interior,
Porto Rico, writes to Dr.. Harris concerning
the condition of peninsular schools. Only
2S,0O0 of the 125, sos children go to school,
The Spanish system provided schools by rent
ing house, one room of which was devoted
to a class and the rest Of the building to
living apartments for the teacher
Gen. Henry has already sent for fifty young
women from the United States to serve as
teachers in the Porto Rican schools
DR.. Carbonell says:
My idea is to model the schools as nearly
as possible after the schools in the United
States. At first should like to introduce the
American kindergarten in each city, town and
village in order to teach the little children
the English language. For this work alone
I need 100 young women teachers from the
United States. At least seventeen more teach
ers could be used in the higher grade English
schools. Furthermore, should like to intro
duce in our schools the study Of music and
also the regular Saturday holiday. Our little
children thenseould go to Santurce village, in
the suburbs, to get their mueh-needed exer-
else, for they now have no Fairgrounds in
San Juan. Military exercises would be good
for the boys, and basket ball games for the
girls. We already have adopted the same va
cation days as the schools in the United
States.'
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GOOD THINGS COMING.

In addition to the blessings recur-
rently and rhythmically enumerated
by the poets as put forth by spring,
! the approaching season promises a lux
urlant growth of literature All sorts
of things are pledged, and while time
alone will enable us to check I'D these
pledges definitely, yet the vigor of the
product may be predicted from the
character of the soil which originates
it.
For example, Don Quixote," washed.
dressed and made surely decent for
introduction into the home and the
school, will be published by Macmillan
company at an early date. While Cliff
ton Jones edits and George Cruik-
shank illustrates the book the transla-
ton is by John Ormsby. His version,
in its clearness and vivacity and faith
fulness to the original. undoubtedly
eXcels any English translation ever
made. The coarseness of the original
has been omitted, as have also the more
offensive details of some of the adven-
lures. on the ground that they can
hardly be delectable for any one, and
that as food for the Imagination of
young readers they are decidedly OBJ
jectionable. In no instance has any
thing vital been sacrificed, and except
for omissions the original text is prac-
tically unchanged. while thoroughly
clean and wholesome.
Mr.. Hall Game has been at work
upon his novel. 1.-The Scapegoat," a
book which has been one of the au-
thors favorites among his works, and
a carefully revised and enlarged edi-
ton is to be published shortly by D.
Appleton & Co.
THE Rogue's Comedy In three acts
and THE Physician" in four acts, two
plays by Henry Arthur Jones, author
of The Dancing Girl" and THE
Liars" have just been announced for
immediate publication by the Macmil-
Ian company.
"Naturalism and Agnosticisnl" is the
| title of the volume containing the much
| talked-of Clifford lectures, which were
delivered by James Ward, NJ A, LII
D.. professor of mental philosophy at
| Cambridge university during 1886. 1t
will be published this spring by the
| Macmillan company.
Mary Wilcox. general secretary CT
| the Henry Watson Children's Aid So
| ciety, in Baltimore, will win the hearts
Of all the old maids in the land by
| her book shortly to be published by
| the Macmillan company, under the tt
tie of The Development of Thrift
| They will read it, for it describes tbs
proper treatment of children, and ther
each will take good care that the sis
| ter-in-law knows its contents, even II
| she has not read it. The subjects treat
ed are: The thrift habit; thrift in the
| family; saving agencies, such as prov
| ident savings banks; postofTfce savings
banks, penny provident funds anu
school savings banks, cooperative saw
| ings and building loan associations
| peoples banks, such as as have beer
| so remarkab bly, successful in German,
| and Italy; provident loan associations
Industrial insurance, and the English
friendly societies. The aforementioned
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CLUB CORNER.

The attempt in Washington and Philadef-
phia among society leaders to inaugurate a
reform in the hours for evening entertain
ments will be watched with good deal of
interest. 1t has been spasmodicaIly tried in
New York with scant success. The Philadel-
phia movement has reached organization and
a name-the Early Hour league. In Wash
ington it is known as the Early to Bed
club" and has the sanction of women prom
inent in official life. among them Mrs Ly-
man j. Gage, one of the most delightful Of
the cabinet hostesses. The Washington So
ciety proposes to begin a campaign of edu-
cation by TEXTURES on this particular phase
OF hygienic living by specialists. The neces-
sity for sleep, too, will be presented by ply
siclans, and ciergymen are going to be asked
to point out the moral injury done by turn
ing night into day.
Both societies will encounter very much
the same attitude of mind That St Anthony
did when he preached to the fishes: Much
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ODD AND INTERESTING.

Spiders are spinning ropes for human
aeronauts. This idea has been put into prac-
tice at Chalais-Meudon, near Paris, where
factory for the special manufacture of bal
loon ropes for the military aeronautic Sec
ton is now in operation. The spiders have
to work hard for their living, as each is
made to spin thirty Of forty yards of thread
before it Is permitted rest. The method Of
working the spiders is very ingenious. Twelve
spiders are placed above reel, to which
their threads attached and the reel Is
gently revolved, that it winds off the
thread as fast as the little spinners produce
1t. Eight of the sets of threads, after being
! washed to rid them of their sticky covering.
are then woven into cords. These are found
to be both stronger and lighter than the silhen
cords which have hitherto been used by bal
loonists, ard the only drawback to their
popularity Is that they are at present very
expensive.
The wine cellar of the old Chaldean king
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her husband. the blind king. into exile after
he lost his kingdom through the war with
Prussia in 1866. now resides in tho villa Thuu
at Gmunden. in Upper Austria, within few
minutes drive Of Schloss Gmunden the resi-
dence of her son. the Duke of Cumberland
Like Queen Victoria, she delights in the So
ciety OF young people, which perhaps ac-
counts for the small ravages time has made
upon her health and vivacity until very re-
Gently.
Women of the kingdom of Burmah are most
distinguished for beauty when possessed Of
very long ears. For this purpose it is COM
mon when they very young to hang
weights to their ears, which make them ex-
ceedingly long when they attain the age of
maturity. and in these they wear a pro-
digious number of rings and other ornaments
Mrs. Sarah Josepha Halel Boston wo-
man, and editor Of the first woman's maya
zine published in this country, worked for
twenty years for the setting aside Of a
Thanksgiving day. Time did not daunt her
courage but rather increased her nsistence.
She wrote to governors Of states and to presi-
dents of the United States. At last President
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sale Of intoxicants. This has been by the
United States supreme court pronounced good
law. The school system, both in plan and
efficiency, would honor any town in Massa-
chusetts. Woman is everywhere in the as
tendency. Seventeen literary clubs are COM
posed CT women. The churches are dominated
by them They are also in politics Despite
all these advantages enjoyed by the support
ers of woman suffrage. it is a fact easily sub
stantiated that this select city has a lower
moral tone than any other of its size or
larger in the state, not excepting mining
towns.
with just and generous laws to assist them
in curing this evil. the woman suffragists do
nothing to check 1t. From three years ex
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ssThe Gospel Writ in Steel

S'The Gospel Writ i'm Steel"
1.-THE Gospel Writ in Steel" a book
written by Arthur Paterson, and pub
lished by Appleton & Co., arrests ones
attention in these days when number
of our good clergymen would write the
gospel in lead upon some of the I'M
willing heather. But the title is mis-
leading, for there is little gospel and
less truth in the book, though there is
a goodly amount of steel. The story
is based upon incidents of the Civil
war, and its base of operations is in
Northern Wisconsin The author be-
gan the hook with heroine and a hero,
but the heroine comes out the worse
for wear and it is difficult to tell Just
where the hero lis att when the book
is finished
Jean loves burly John, who supports
his mother in comfort and is very pop
ular in che town. Seth, the dapper
Schoolmaster, loves Jean, and conse-
quently hates John Abraham Lincoln
calls for volunteers; Seth enlists; John
does not for mis- mothers sake The
people call him coward, so does Jean.
Seth is lauded, goes to the war, runs
away from the battle and lives to fight
again. But Jean has promised to mar
ry him, and he is happy until he is
taken prisoner and then his woes begin.
John, for jeans sake, rescues him at
the peril of his own life, ard mean
while performs valuable service for the
government, for which he is made a
captain. He brings Seth home, presents
him to Jean. but for some reason or
other the present pals on her Seth
sees it, divines the cause, makes up
his mind to go back to the war and
does SO. Before he goes, however, he
presents Jean to John and the present
is accepted. Thus ends the story.
1.-The Gospel Writ in Steel" by Arthur Pater-
son. Published by D. Appleton C Co.
For safe by st. Paul Book and Stationery
company.
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Samuel Washington George Wash
ington's brothe0 was married five
times. Some of his wives he deserted
and others deserted him, and two died,
thus leaving him twice a sad lone wild
over, from which condition he quickly
eXtricated himself"
Such a sentence found in a book,
picked UP to see how much more or
less prosy it was than that just laid
down, makes you arrest the incipient
yawn, sit up, and read on to discover
how the immortal George regarded
his five-wived brother. Mr.. Ebert Hub
bard (for it is in his Little Journeys
to the Homes OF American Statesmen"
that the piquant comment is found
does not answer the query, but turns
directly to Samuel's many debts and
daughters, the first drawing from the
good George the exclamation:
In Gods namei How has Samuel
managed to get himself so in debt?"
OF Harriet one of the daughters, he
says: She was not brung up right.
She has no disposition. and takes no
care of her clothes, which are dabbed
about in every corner and the best are
always in use. She costs me enoush."
But his troubles had an end, for a lit
f7tle later he inscribed upon his ledger
these words: by Miss Harriet Wash
ington, gave her to buy wedding clothes
sl0O."
AS to the much-vaunted Veracity of
his childhood, Mr.. Hubbard remarks
that though Washington could not tell
lie when he was six years old, yet
he afterwards partially overcame the
difficulty" AS proof of his improve
ment the biographer says that ION one
occasion George writes to a friend that
the mosquitoes of New jersey could
bite through the thickest boot and
though a contemporary clergyman.
greatly furried, explains that he meant
Stocking we insist that the state
nnent shall stand as the father of his
country expressed it,
In spite of the fact that the chap
ter on Washington is a declaration
that the author will handle America 8
great statesmen as men and not ma
chimes, 1t provokes a little giggle Of
surprise to see Benjamin Franklin de-
scribed as large and strong and fat
end good-natured, and having a full
moon face that made him look like a
country pumpkin" And we like Ben
iarnin all the better, too, when we are
told that he innocently suggested to
his blue Presbyterian father, who was
packing a barrel of beef in the cellar,
that grace said over the whole beef at
once would save much time at the
table.
may as well stop here as anywhere, for
the volume is a series of snap shots
OF great men, not as they are seen
when posing for a picture, but as they
we're caught-SOmetimes mapping al
most always off their guard.
Little Journeys TO the Homes OF Americau
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Furman.
Escape" by John White Chadwick.
Henry George in California" by Noah
Brooks
alexander the Great. by Benjamin Ids
Wheeler.
THE Painter de Novel," by Marie L. Van
Worst.
"A Farewell by Harriet Monroe.
Coles Old English Masters" John Opie, by
John C. Van Dyke.
The Sinking of the Merrimac," Part Ill,
Imprisonment in Moro Castle, by Richmond
Pearson Hobson, naval constructor L. ;. y.
How Other Countries Do It,. an inquiry
into the consular system of other nations, by
George McAneny.
The Capture of Santiago de Cuba" by
William r. Shafter major general. L. 5. V.
THE Orator." by George Edward Wood
berry.
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1.-THE Astronomical Outlook AS Related to
tho Perfection of Our Instruments and Meth
Badly" story, by Sarah Barnwell Elliott.
The Span o. Life" a novel. Part ", by
William McLennan and ]. n. McIlwraith.
The Clew," sonnet, by Robert Mowry
1.-THE Sick Child" a story, by Henook-
Observation-Disclosures angel de Coral.
His Talisman,' poem, by Martha Gill
bert Dickinson.
s'The Spanish-American War" Part l., the
unsettled question. by Hon. Henry Cabot
Lodge.
Sutton Briscoe.
Facing the North Star by c. G. Abbot
'Remorse." poem. by Arthur j., Stringer.
with Dewey at Manila" by Joseph L.
stickney, New York Herald correspondent.
and especially appointed aide to Commordore
Dewey during the battle.
Loves Insistence," poem, by Nina Fran
aThe United States as a World Power"
chapter of national experience, by Albert
Bushnell Hart.
ssThe Drawer" with Introductory story. by
Ruth McEnery Stuart.
Literary Notes." by John Kendrick Bangs.
SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE.
seThe Rough Riders" to Cuba. by Theo-
dore Roosevelt. colonel First United States
volunteer cavalry
-Four National Conventions" by George F.
Hoar.
Joel Chandler Harris. ,
1.-THE Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson,
by Sidney Colyin.
1.-The Lepers.' tale of South AFRICA. by
William Charles SculIy
"Asceticism." poem. by Elisabeth M W.
Fay. -, 60.
'.Riordar's Last Campaign by Anne
O'Hagan.
s.WiiIiam Makepeace Thackeray," by w. c.
Browneil. -.
Julia Larned.
the AngIo-American Understanding
The Field of Art" aesthetics in our uni
yersities. by Henry Rutgers Marshall.
NEW ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE.
1.-The Worlds Sport" by H A. Dryden
and F. G. Afalo.
Venus and Mars Fountains Of Honor.
1.-The DEVILS Own"
"a Yaugtze Holocaust" by G. w. Mason
s'Reprisals,' by Georges Montbard
eThe Mouse Club" by Louis Vain.
elm Confidence" by Mrs. Ernest Lever
'FreckIes," by W. Petit Ridge.
IN. P.s and Their Fads." by Alexander
Mackintosh.
I'm the Public Eye
True Stories About Horse Dealing" by A.
S. Applebee.
The Play and It's Story: THE Adventure
of Lsdy Ursula"
Fine Feathers; Scraps From Lady Babies
Note Book
Lady Barbarity; Romantic Comedy"
Chapter III. and w. ]. C. Smith
ooh, Lovely Jane"
THE CENTURY.
Harvesting the Nile" by Frederic Court
land Penfield.
"A Fairy Grave" by John Vance Cheney.
What Charles Dickens Did for Childhood
by James L. Hughes.
''Frank.ins Religion" by Paul Leicester
Ford.
"a War Song of Tyrol," by S. Weir Nit
chel
'svia Crucis." romance OF the Sec5nd
Crusade, w., by F. Marion Crawford
Sunsets by Ida Ahlborn Weeks.
'.On the Way to the North Pole" the Well
man Polar Expedition. by Walter Weflma1.
1.-THE Reformation OF Uncle Billy" by FL
lis Parker Butler.
'.Ths Curing Of Kate Nes.ey,' BY Lucy g.
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THREE LESSONS.

There are three lessons l would write.
Three words as with a golden pen,
In tracing of eternal light
Upon the hearts Of men.
Have Hope, though clouds environ round.
And gladness hide her face in scorn;
Put thou the shadow from thy brow,
No night but has it's morn.
Have Faith, where thy bark is driven
The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth-
Know this: God rules the hosts Of heaven,
The inhabitants of earth.
Have Love! Not love alone for one,
But man man thy brother call,
And scatter, like the circling sun,
Thy charities all.
Thus grave these words upon thy soul.
Hope, Faith, and Love. and thou shalt fnd
Strength when life's surges maddest roll;
Light, when thou else vert blind.
Schiller.
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the emperor of Austria sent a dozen bottles
of Imperial Tokay. Following the example
of the emperor of Germany, the king of Sax
ony sent a boar's head; and from the grand
duke of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the queen re-
cefved large goose-liver pasty; while her
majesty's granddaughter, the crown princess
of Greece sent spices and dried fruits.
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subject is especially intended for the
use of our fraternal and benefit socie-
ties.
1.-The Life and Letters of Archbishop
Benson" will be published early in the
spring by the Macmillan company. The
volume is edited by the prelate's son,
and will contain portraits and illustra-
items. The biography will necessarily
embrace not only the history of the
Anglican church during the archbish-
ops life, but also much of the inner
history of public movements; and his
relations with the brilliant men who
have guided the affairs of England dur
ing the past half century.
1t will be recalled that Prof. Dean
c. Worcester, of the University of
Michigan, who has been appointed
member of the special commission to
visit the Philippine islands, is the au-
thor of the recently published and
very widely read book, THE Philip
pine Islands and Their People," This
is the most exhaustive work that has
appeared on the situation in the ISL
ands, and is therefore naturally hav-
ing a very wide reading. The Macmil-
Ian company, who publish this book,
have just brought out the fourth large
edition which has been called for since
October. Indeed, 1t is doubtful if the
professors knowledge of the Philip
pines and their affairs and habits
would have been so signally recog-
nized by President Mckinley had the
latter not read the professors book
The record of his three years wan
behring's and observations on the ISL
ands led to a f1attering personal invi-
tation to Washington from the presi-
dent, and the subsequent appointment
Of the professor as commissioner.
The lack of a prehensive book
for travellers, investors and others, de-
voted entirely to Porto Rico, will in
sure welcome for Puerto Rico and its
Resources by Frederick A. Ober, the
well-known traveller in the West In
dies, which is coming from the press
of D. Appleton & Co. The aim has
been to produce work that will an
swer all questions likely to arise in
connection with the acquisition and
occupation of this new tropical pos
session of ours, and to- this end Mr..
ODER has availed himself of every op-
portunity of adding to his stock of
information acquired during the past
eighteen years. His book is not a
sketch for the casual visitor, or i'm
pressions of a traveller in search of
the picturesque, but it is a compre-
hensive, informing and interesting &C
count of the people, Hand and products,
with the full explanatiens of the actual
conditions and opportunities which
are needed by visitors and intending
investors. f
G. W. Dillingham; COMPANY announce
THAT Gay Deceivers@s by Albert Ross.
This win be his twentieth volume. The
sale of Mr.. Ross novels exceeds ], 800 900
copies. The Dillingham; Co. will also
soon issue Not on the Chart" by AL
gernon Sydney Logan; Van Hoff or
the New Faust" by Alfred Smythe,
and His Own Image" by Alan Dale.
FEBRUARY MAGAZINES.
ATLANTIC MONTHLY