The Savannah morning news., 1901-03-04

ptSt SoNtFNnent anu whether IL contains
the necessary powers and endurance for
the present worldwide competition OF
nations w. p. b. Du Bots treats of The
Freedmen's Bureau, its rise and history,
the good ii accomplished, the opportunI-
ties that We're used or lost, and the leg
acy il has left us. The foregoing are the
leading articles but are by no means the
entire contents of the number. Houghton
Miffiin y Co. Park street, Boston.
Mass.
The March issue of McCiure's Maya
zine is one of notable value. value at
once timely and permanent. The leading
feature is character study of Edward
VI. written by the man in America most
competent for the task, George W. Small
ley, the correspondent of the London
Times. Accompanying the article are
pictures which form a series Of portraits
OF the new sovereign from earliest youth
to the present Following this apprecia-
ton of the King. there Is a collection of
pictures of Queen Victoria. These are
thirty In number, reproductions of photo
graphs and paintings and they are a
complete pictorial souvenir of the mon
arch. \ descriptive text accompanies
them, Theodore Roosevelt, Vice Presi-
dent-elect, contributes an article OF great
interest to this number. in which he de-
scribes clearly the personalities of some
who have labored with success in New
York city for Reform Through Social
Work" An article of particular histori-
cal value. as well as OF vivid interest, is
contributed by Ida NJ. Tarbel. This is
entitled '"rhe Disbanding of the Union
Army" and in it is adequately told for
the first time the story of an event unique
g.. 4. H.
returned its army of a million men from
the camps of war to the fields of peace.
The S. s. Mcclure Co.. 14l-155 East Twen-
ty-lifth street, New York city.
Fiction readers will turn first. in the
March Century, TO the opening pages of
new story by Irving Bachelor. author
Of the record breaking "Eben Holden"
The title is "D'ri and l." the general
theme is American border iife at the time
of the War of 1872, and the leading char
acters are Col. Raymon Bell U. >. A, a
Southerner. and Darius, a typical Yam,
kee. Continuing his Webster series, Prof.
McMaster considers this month his hero's
experience as a leader of the opposition
in Congress. 1t will surprise most read
ers of the Century to learn that the flight
of the Empress Dowager from Pekin did
not occur till the city was actually in
the hands of the foreign devils" II was
on Aug. 10 that She with the Emperor,
Empress, and Heir Apparent, set forth,
each in a separate cart. towards Tai-yuan.
fu. Luella Miner, an American mission
airy, who describes this hegira, has drawn
| her information from a hitherto unpub-
ished account written by a Chinese gen.
tleman of high standing whose authority
is unimpeachable. The opening article IL
on Shopping in New York." the personal
| experiences recorded being chiefly those
of the writer Lille Hamilton French,
Henry HUT supplies a running pictorial
commentary on the text. The Century
Company, Union Square, New York.
1.-THE Balloonist is the hero of Cleve-
land Moffett's third paper on Careers of
Danger and Daring" which appears in the
! March number of st. Nicholas. Strange
to say. the life OF the man who trusts
himself to the tender mercies of the air
does not impress the reader as more haz-
ardous than that of the diver or the stee,
| plevciimber, as previously described nv
| the same picturesque writer. Mrs. lose.
prime Peary, who has accompanied her
husband on several of his Arctic expedl.
entitled
| 'Ahnighito" tells of the infancy and
| early childhood of her own daughter
Marie, who was born within the Arctic
Circle, and revisited her birthplace on
Lieut.. Pearys voyage after the monster
meleorlte ne mad discovered on an earlier
trip. The frontispice, drawn by J. M
Gleeson, is entitled 1.-THE Domain of the
Llohess and there is a quartette of hum
orou5 pictures by T.. w. Kemble. portray
ana Science, the st. Nicholas League the
Letter-Box. and the Riddle-Box are bous-
TRULY supplied with Illustrations. ST
Nicholas the Century Company, Union
Square, New York.
The March number OF the woman's
Home Companion has many features of
more than ordinary interest. The fiction
In TINS number is especially strong. being
! contributed by such authors as John
kendrick Bangs, Mrs. Spofford and Bret
Harte. The art features of this number
are decidedly superior to anything that
has heretofore appeared I'm a magazine
The Woman's Home Companion. Spring
field, 0.
The International Monthly for March Is
strong number. VIII H. Low writes
on National Expression i'm American
Art" especially applied to building and
decorating. Art in the old world has ar
rived at maturity in certain directions.
Mr.. Low writes In a most optimistic
strain of the possibilities open to Ameri-
can designers. II is interesting 10 note
that Richard Morris Hunt claimed the
trained architect was almost unknown in
our greatest city thirty years ago. The
International Magazine Burlington, VT.
The Worlds Work for March touches
every continent. has something new 10
say on practically every general topic of
interest, sketches the men who are do
ing some of the great things-in fact.
retails everything that the world has done
well during the past month. The maya
zine lives up 10 its name in it's variety
and then WHITES the workaday world
with keen, progressive, American spirit.
The list of contents is too long to be en-
tirely detailed, but some OF the most i'm
portant articles are, THE Rule of the
Notwithstanding Folk (the race that
rules on every continent but one) as view
ed at the close OF the Victorian era; a
strikingy fine story Of the work of old
ST. Georges Parish, New York, by MIR.
Jacob Riis; intimately personal sketches
OF Gen. DeWet, Alfred Harmsworth and
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