department, which he calls the "Editor's Symposium.'" In this, he chats pleasantly and instructively of books and criticism and kindred subjects. A very delight ful department is the result. Among other well-known names attached to select ed articles, we note those of Andrew Lang, Grant Allen, John Watson ("Ian Maclaren "), Herbert Spencer, 13eerbohm-Tree and John Burroughs.
HARPER'S MAGAZINE for April contains "Wash ington and the French Craze of '93." a popular his torical paper, by Professor John Bach McMaster, "Wild Things in Winter," a sympathetic study of bird life, by J. H. Kennedy, and "Our Trade with Brazil and the River Platte Republics," byRichard Mitchell, U. S. N. In the leading short story of the number, " The Wisdom of Fools," Mar garet Deland raises the question of personal respon sibility in the existing social order. Other stories are: "A Realized Romance," by Mary M. Mears, and " A Solo Orchestra," by Brander Matthews. THE CENTURY for March is an " Inauguration Number," and is one of a series of special issues which will make the present year of that magazine of more than ordinary interest to its readers. It con tains several articles which have special interest to Americans at this time. One, "Our Fellow-Citizens of the White House," by Mr. С. С. Buel, describes the official life of a President. Three frontispiece por traits are given with the number — two of President elect McKinley, and one of President Cleveland at his desk, all of them made from photographs special ly taken for THE CENTURY. Mr. J. B. Bishop con tributes an article on " Inauguration Scenes and Incidents," with stories and pictures relating to some famous inaugurations in the past. The Librarian of Congress describes the splendid building just com pleted for " The Nation's Library," and Mr. William A. Caffin, the art critic, writes of its decorations.
DR. EDWARD EVERETT HALE begins in the April issue of the NATIONAL MAGAZINE a serial to be en titled " Some Recollections of the Century. It also contains " The Story of an Armenian Refugee," describing, with photographs, the recent Armenian massacres. The leading illustrated article is " Chi cago Artists and their Work."
McCLURE's MAGAZINE for April contains a series of unpublished letters written by General Sherman to a young lady between whom and an Army officer the General undertook to re-establish a broken ro
mantic relation. It contains also a series of life por traits of Alexander Hamilton and his wife, and a study of Hamilton's life and public services by his chief biographer, the Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge. The stories in this number are by Ian Maclaren, Octave Thanet, and Cv. Warman. THE April number of the ATLANTIC contains an article by Prof. Frederick J. Turner, of Madison, Wisconsin, on " Dominant Forces in Western Life," wherein he traces the origin of the institutions and ideas which make the great Northwest what it is. A pretty colonial love story is told in the love letters of the widow of Governor Spottsford of Virginia, " The Parson who Won her Hand,"— old letters now for the first time published. THE editor of the REVIEW OF REVIEWS comments in the March number on the Spanish program of reforms in Cuba, the United States Senate's attitude toward the arbitration treaty with England, the im migration bill, the proposed international monetary conference, President-elect McKinley 's cabinet selec tions, the recent Senatorial elections, the New York Trust investigation, the famine situation in India, the affair of the Greeks in Crete, the foreign policy of Russia, the position of England, France, and the other great powers, and many other matters of cur rent interest. An Englishman's study of the longest reign in British history is contributed in this diamond jubilee year of Queen Victoria's rule, by Mr. W. T. Stead, who traces the growth of imperial dominion and the influence of the royal family from the point of view of the typical British subject. Many of the portraits are rare, and are now published for the first time in America. AMONG the more noteworthy contents of THE LIVING AGE for March, are the following: "The Psychology of Feminism," an entertaining contri bution to the discussion of the "New Woman"; an essay on " Victorian Literature," by Andrew Lang; a paper on " Recent Polar Exploration" by Prince Kropotkin; and "Two Cyclones," a clever sketch by Ludovic Halévy, translated for the LIVING AGE. THE opening pages of the NORTH AMERICAN RE VIEW for March are devoted to a timely and elabor ate paper from the pen of Sir Edwin Arnold on " The Famine in India." In " The History of a Poem." Mr. Edmund Gosse recounts the circumstances con nected with the production of the late Coventry Patmore's work, " The Angel in the House." A writer.
