Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-03-10
REVIEW TABLE.

Neither in the timeliness of its topics,
in the ability and representative charac-
ter of its contributors, nor in any Of the
other qualities which have raised the
North American Review under its pres
emit management to the position of ack-
nowledged primacy among the maya
zines, is the March number Of the Re-
view second to any of the great issues
which have preceded it. The Most Rev.
John Ireland. Archbishop of st. Paul, in
an article of great power and e%loquence
entitled 1.-The Pope's Civil Princedom,'
expounds the reasons why Catholicsare-
gard the temporal power as essential to
the Papacy for the proper discharge of
its functions and their grounds for
hoping that Rome may be restored to the
church. Sir Charles W. Dixie presents
an appreciative paper On the present
king of England Henry A. Castla,
auditor for the ~postofice department,
makes certain disquieting revelations re-
garding "Some Perils of the Postal Ser
vice." Charles Waldstein, slade profess
sor of the fine arts in Kings college,
Cambridge, discusses the Recent Dis
coveries in Greece" especially the re.
suits of the excavations of Messrs.
Evans and Hogarth in Crete, with d
view to determining the light they cast
upon the Mycenaan age. Professor
Richard T. Ely, of the university of Wis
%consin, details the advantages of "Mu-
nicipal Ownership of Natural Monop-
olies,' In the great religions of the
world series, Frederic Harrison writes of
"Positivism: It's Position, Aims and
Ideals" while Mr.. Howells, with genial
and lucid pen, reviews the "The Recent
Dramatic Season"
*
The leader in the Engineering Maya
zine for March is David B. Bogle's study
of the Coming Industrial Empire of
Puget Sound" With untold wealth in
resources of minerals, of coal, OF timber,
of agricultural products. of potential
waterpower; with vast markets opening
across the Pacific; with an energetic, re-
sourceful Anglo-American population,
keen to realise and grasp every oppor-
tunity-the Pacific coast Of North
America promises a development equal
to that of the north of England or the
eastern United States. Mr.. Boyle makes
an able presentation of the conditions
and their economic meaning. A. Fl.
Ford has a second illustrated paper in
his Russian series, dealing with engi-
neering opportunities in central and
western Asia-a region ,teeming with
new enterprise. ~
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The March issue of McClure's Mag
azine is one of notable value a value at
once timely and permanent. The lead
ing feature is a character study of Ed
ward VII, written by the man in Amer
lea most competent for the task, George
W. Smalley, the correspondent of the
London Times. Accompanying the ar
ticle are pictures which form a series OF
portraits of the new sovereign from ear.
Hest youth to the present. Following
this appreciation of the king, there is a
collection of pictures of Queen Victoria,
These are thirty in number, reproduc-
tons of photographs and paintings, and
they are a complete pictorial souvenir OF
the monarch: Adescriptive text accom-.
panies them.
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The March number of What to Eat
contains among other good reading: A
Red Letter Dinner, an interesting and
entertaining account of an Oriental feast
given by the richest mandarin in Ole
Tientsin. A Staged Supper and its Envi
ronments, not told by n of them. Ar
insight into those mysterious affairs
where men reign supreme. An Automo
bile Progressive Dinner, an entertain
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