Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-02-02
THE FEBRUARY MAGAZINES.

Prof Angelo lIeilprin, whose recent volume
on Alaska ana the Kondike was so highly
compimented for its scieI tiic value as well
as for its readableness, contributes the first
of two articles, giving the results of a second
visit to this interesting and wonderfully rich
country, to the February number of Apple.
tons Popular Science Monthly. A number
of beautiful illustrations accompany the text.
The publishers of McClure's Magazine say
that nothing else they have ever brought out
has attracted such wide attention and such
hearty concentrations as 1.-THE Life OF the
vaster," by DR.. John Watson ("Ian Mac
laren"). A sec 1nd installment appears in the
February number with five illustrations in
color and many in black and white, all from
special paintingsj and drawings by c. X.
Linson.
"The Problems of Pacific Cable. by Her
bert Laws Webb, in the February Scribner's,
Is an article OF importance in our colonial
relation 3, and especially so at this time when
several bills to lay II Pacific cable are before
congress. Mr.. Webb Is an electrical expert
who has taken part in several cable expedi
tions. He describes briefly all of the propos'
ed routes across the Pacific, and discusses
the difficulties which are likely to be met
with and the conditions of success.
"The First Night OF Il Play" "Through the
Slums with Mrs Balington Booth" "What it
Means to be Librarian" by Herbert Put
and the Man in It," by Ian Maclareu. are
among the notable features of the February
Ladies' Home journal. An American Moth.
er answers conclusively "IIave Women Rob
bed Men of Their Religion" and there is an
interesting article on Mile. Chaminade, the
famous composer and pianist.
The topics editOrlally treated in the Amer
lean Monthly Review of Reviews for Febru
airy are theiNicaragua Canal proposition now
before congress, the Canadian an Erie Canal
projects, underground transit in New York
and elsewhere, the currency and business
situation, the treasury and the banks. the
popular election of senators, Mr.. Beverages
speech in the senate on the Philippine ques
ton, our tariff policy in Puerto Rico and
Cuba, the meaning of "neutrality" in the
Boer war, and the strength and weakness OF
| the Boer position.
! The February number of Every bodys Mag
aZine Is filled with that enjoyable combina
d ton OF amusing and profitable reading fol
which The publication is already well known
The "Simplc Explanation" for the month Is
on the subject of trolley. cars, and the writer
1 explains in a remarkably clear aud graphic
manner Just how electricity is generated
and how II runs the car For Il purely scien
tlfic subject ii has been treated with aston
ishing simplicity and brevity, ana no one car
read the article without interest and profit.
Elk Speaker Reeds paper on "Monopo-
lies"--which is to appear in The saturday
Evening Post of Feb. lois a suggestive dis
cusslon of the methods of vast corporations
/ 1t discusses in striking ana original manner
one of the most pressing questions of thu
day. "My notion" saws he, sis that while
providence and the higher laws which really
govern the universe are, in mems talk, mucl
inferior to the revised statutes before the,
are enacted, they are always found to b.
quite superior to them after they are enacted
In fact nature abhors n monopoly rs mucl
as II docs vacuum"