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Mach number Of the Woman's Home Companion
~ riiti a charming description OF The Coming OF
&incn BY Ernest Harold Baynes' wireless leegraphy
p,isined by expert and another timely article deals
" eSp,rL first President of the Cuban Republic The
hh 49, ecourship and Marriage Customs in Many Lands
3pei The queer ceremonies OF the Hindu and Parsce.
Ieats o. thrilling instalment OF Deeds Of Heroism of
q here In the Civil War" The fiction includes stories by
N c Poes win Payne and Mary Tracy Earle. A new
&eaure is "Thumhnai Editorials by famous women lhere
n an article the new game pns-pong there are stories
. n,;ldreu and many pages OF Easter fashions
Il
ran,r Markham's latest poem, "Tbe Dream of Pilates
Ayo has just been completed and Will appear exclusively
r. the ApTi 'u''''' 4 m st
,oos Of the visit of Prince Henry the Review of
s- March comments editorially on Germanys rela.
49, With the United States and especially what the
H. chooses TO term "the American German element in
w nonuaon and their loyalty as Americans There is also
full discussion OF tile recent announces ana
Rfnalards attitude toward the United States in 1858 An
Z International topic of great Importance treated in this
"mber OF the Review is the recently announced compact
Mstween England and Japan.
The principal articles in the Popular Science Monthly
H. March arc: "Thc Palm Trees Of Brazil by Prof John
II Kramer: Work and Rest Genius and Stupidity, by
m Alexander Francis Chamberlain; Science in 1901,
NFrpkns Philosophical Society" by Dr. Ellis PaXon Ober
kboI,zer; 'Alpheus Hyatt" Prof W. Fl. Dali; Suicidal
NTanaticism in Russia by Prof. W. g. Sumner The Df
8,,cntiation Of the Human Species, by Prof Lndey NJ
fK,osby Were the Earliest Organic Movements Conscou,
or Unconscous' by Prof T. b. kitchener Trust Deco
sby Andrew Carnegie Creating Trust for the Benefit oil
the Carnegie Institution.
Mrs Strong stepdaughter of Robert Louis Stevenson
contributes to the March Century descriptive paper of
curious character entitled In Samoa with Stevenson set
ting forth the picturesque and romantic features OF thu
native lie Speaking of the feasibility of the language Mrs
Strong says that the little word ia means VIC too t
beat with a stick, to play on musical instrument to re
prove to tattoo open vein, to bail cannon, to wasi
\ clothing by beating, and to turn somersault
II Il
The last and best portrait of William McKinleypante
from sketch made the day the late president delivered hi
addess-s the fronspiece of the March Ma
tonal Magazine which has published and is still publishing
more interesting matter concerning the career OF this grea
American than any other periodical This portrait whc
has never been published has extraordinary value
both as work Of and representation of its subjec
the height OF his greatness and in his last public appear
sncs
George W. Cable opens the March Atlantic with the frs
nstalment Of his eagerly awaited new serial Bylow Hill
Notable articles afairsinternatonal and domestc-tol
low Goodwin Smith contributes England and the war
Secession" William Il. Merriam Of the power am
danger Of in the light of returns and Edw
Burrtt Smith analyses municipal selfgovernmen shown
how State interference hampers and demoraizes city growt
city autonomy In the field Of fiction and literature tn
March Atlantic has the usual number Of scholarly and in
teresng contributions.
Artisticaly Scrbners Magazine for March very bcau
full This number is led with series of paintings by Cas-
aigne printed in tint, showing the life along the waite
front OF London Pcixotto illustrates another OF Mrs Edit
Whartons brief descriptions OF the beauty OF Norther
Italy Walter Appleton Clark has another OF his ehectlv
Illustrations for T. Hopknson Smiths serial. Reuerdat
Illustrate, the Lake story and D. u Wilcox the Adror
lack tale
The most ncisive and kecn analytical sketches OF put
lie which have been prepared during the past two year
have been those of William Allen White The humorol
little episode between Mr. White and MIR. Thomas G. Pa
still fresh in the public memory Mr.. Whites sketch t'
March appears the Cosmopolitan and is the late Pres
dentH Z will he with