Arizona republican., 1902-11-12

November number of The American Boy (Sprague Publishing C., Detroit Mich0 presents a feast of good things for boys. the fourth and fifth chapters of the Napoleon biography by the edi- tor, illustrated with a portrait of Jose phine, and stirring picture of the bat tie of the bridge of Arcola and a may of Napoleon's campaign in Northern Italy.
 As regards the education of engin- eers, there is a growing opinion that the instruction given in our universi- ties and technical colleges needs to be in actual engineering work. There is a complaint that the teaching is too aca- demic. Moreover it is thought that the university terms, occupying on the whole not more than seven months of the year. are too short for the proper training of engineering students, and involve unnecessary breaks in their work. It has been suggested, there fore, that students in engineering should divide the session into two parts, and should spend six successive months in each year at the university or technical college. and the remainder of the year in engineering practice. This arrange ment would certainly prove advantag eous to the students, and might be equally so to the professors, who would thus obtain a continuous period of leis- ure for their own investigations or pri- vate practice.-Sil Philip Magnus. in The Engineering Magazine for Novem- Der.
 Not as an illustrated news-ma gazine only. but also as a literary monthly, the National of Boston, is establishing its rank among the first half dozen American monthlies. Among the liter ary features of the November number are stories by Frank H. Spearman, Ed ward w. Wooley, Willard Dillman, Eva Hampton Prather. Frances Wilson and I.ylie O. Harris; poems of real distinc- tion by Ernest McGaffey, Hilton R. Greer and Louise Levin Matthews, and Studies of Books and Their Makers" Current affairs are discussed by Joe Mitchell Chapple, who tells how. armed with a letter from President Roosevelt, he saw the coronation of King Edward; Dy s. Glen Andrus, who reports an in terview with Finance Minister Liman- tour, the real executive head of Mexico, on the future of that country and it's relations with the United States; by Marcia Davies, who writes of the south's great college for women; by Hamilton Wright, who contributes q character sketch of San Francisco, our gateway to Asia; by PoIf1tney Bigelow, whose theme is housekeeping in Mu- nich; by Frank Putnam. whose Note and Comment on a variety of topics is a regular feature; and by Arthur Me Ilroy. who considers the coal strike as an object lesson. The number includes many portraits of celebrities and short illustrated sketches of nine progressive American cities. east and west.
 The November number of Sports Afield is a notable issue of that always interesting journal. being replete with stories of adventure, tales of sport by flood and field, with matters of unusual merit in the departments devoted to Natural History, Our Young Sports men, Amateur Photography, Game Protection and Our Friend the Dog. Without making any great ado. Sports Afeld has pursued the even tenor of its way, giving it's thousands of readers the best obtainable matter in the realm of outdoor sport and nature knowledge, while its stories and character sketches commend thmselves to competent judges of all that is best In American literature. In the current issue Ed ward Hall, the Montana % horseman, writes forcefully on the art of bronco breaking; w. C. Black tells about duck shooting on Lake Erie in the early days; there is a graphic recital of a stag hunt with hounds in British Col umbia by A. B. Williams; while Pro- lessor Rice's description of life and conditions in the Ozark country of southern Missouri will be read with interest by man and boy, matron and maid. Sports Afleld, now in its 18th year, is published at 35S Dearborn st. Chicago, Ills, at S1.50 a year, or you can get it of your news dealer at 15 cents a copy.