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A THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 1897. QYT JARGARET HUNGERFORD, better | ‘4 known as “The Duchest,” is dead. MY Mrs. Hungerford was born in Ireland 1859. She was the dsughter of the late ilton, rector of S 2 Ross, Cerberry, County ltons were an old snd dis- * was ma to a gentleman by the name of er six years of happi married a widow, with three little ones stenance. stories for her own r days. Butitwas led to support her- e sdopted novel- velihood. t was twenty years ago, to the press no less than Duchess” married Henry ot & wealthy Irish land" ©s & writer had been so s 1l wrote on. At the time of death she had accumulated quite a for- ne and bad a reputation wider than that of er. life “The Duchess” 1s said to charming woman. She was ded by wealth and friends, and she al home at St. Brendas, in the of Cork, full of guests. As a writer Hungerford made up in quantity what ty. Her writings are well r 1s hardly to be however. Her ed by the e masses. t Bo Nor V * was 15 waited for, in spite of its very g e novels of ““The D Whil be co dard to . t wit, bu ries which go far 10 r Had SLOANE'S ESTIMATE OF BONA- PARTE )N BONAPARTE—By Wil 11, The Century y The Wh essor Sloa ing than th the author cons ulete a8 the period of Bonaparte's great- estand most enduring renown. The voiume s with the rescue of the Directory during the summer of 1797, by the aid which Napo- leon sent from lialy in moral support and In person of General Augereau. It closes the dec he Prussians at battle of eaves of read iere 1s & handsome f hese belng in colors and ex valuable paintings in the artg: ope. nor seems to be per treatment of his world i1 according to him i iip, and yet 1 some ways he credit for greatness in unstinted and defends him from the bitter at- The character pears here greatly expanded to us in the first volume, as though roused by a loltier theme, the page illu ctly impartial ting sub- 10 object worsh ice and glow and force. &s a shrewd and unscrupu- but as Consul and Emperor we m points of view suggested by make us wonder if after all ave been some hidden moble vast ambition. 85 1797, when the helpless Directory d of Bona te while at the wer, we are told o master k com 1rope. ncipaiity with us & pen portrait of oyalist, the A 1 nd his mouth and eyes which is rt and treacherous; speaking little, anity is engeg oor health because of his blood. He sleeps but nt.” aying the part of les of equality bel that his c , were of the high- mors 1 irs ever. 10g of hi voted to the French peopl tal © bis other gif est order.” About Napoleon's Egyptian expedition we some interesting things. The French republic had inherited the notion of world conquest which had occupied both Pnilip le Bel and Loufs X1V, although in another form. Bonaparte wes full of the same idea. of bis conversations he said that Europe was s Lwhen compured with the 600,000,000 men in the East. In his youth he had read se “Philosophical and Political History of the Two Indies,” and had therein learned to sdmire Alexander the Grest and to believe that with & proper population and & firm ad- minisiration Alexendria would rise to greater eminence than London, Paris, Constantinople or Rome. The opinions thus early formed he never changed, and he reiterated them even at St. Helena, where he said that but for his re- pulse at Acre he would have founded sn Oriental empire. At the time of the declaration of the em- pire, Sloane says that Bonaparte had by guile and prudence in the exercise of consummate genius as soldier and politician climbed to he pinnacle of revolutionary power. *‘Stand- ing ever st the parting of the ways, and indifferent to principle, he carefully con- sidered each path, and finally chose the one de- be one which seemed likeliest to guide his foot- | steps toward the goal of his ambition. Fer- tile in resources, he strove always to construct a double plan, and on the failure of one expe- dient passed easily t0 another. Hiscareer has been marked by many blunders, and he has often been brought toa stand on the verge of some abyss which threatened failure and ruins ot, like the driver of a midnight train, he kept the headlight of caution trimmed and burning.” Professor Sloane thinks that the French peo. ple helped Nepoleon to climb to power because they saw in him the incarnation of their own patriotism and love of leadership among na- tions. It was because the Bourbons had failed to represent these qualities that they had despised the Bourbons. He says it is en- tirely possible that Boneparte beiieved him- seif and s dynasty proceeding irom his loins t0 be the best, if not the only, conservators of the new France. STORY OF SELF-SACRIFICE. THE CAREER OF CANDIDA — By George Pasten. D. Appleton & Co.. New York. Paper, 50 cents. For sale by William Doxey, Palace Hotel, City. Candide is introduced to us when she is a little eight-year-ola girl, in the act of rebel- spoils doctrine by making placemakers, lion sgainst saylng her prayers, because she Faugh- | ied first when quite | ’s stylo has grown to one of more elo- | Bonaparate is | T ool In one | | said her prayers were not answered. She had | been praying fora Newfoundland puppy for everso long and the puppy had never come. | She is allowed to wear short dresses until she is 16 years old, and then, wnen she 1s put into | skirts, she weeps because sho can’t even |jump off a gate. When her father tells her to choose & profession she elects for first choice thatshe will be a veterinary surgeon and for second choice & cowboy of the prai- | ries. Her father tells her ih. professions are closed to her, and next she wants to be an acrobat. Finally, her lovinz parent com- promises by sending her off to a school to learn to be a teacher of physical cul- ture. The tomboy develops into & wonder- | fully fine woman, and after marrying a man utterly unworthy of her she gives up her whole life to nurse him when be has made | bimself helpless by dissipation. The book ends with the. singular sentence, ““And her | heart was satisfied because she had flung all | nopes of happiness away.” |zoLA’s NEV; NOVEL, “PARIS.” M. Emile Zola, reports the Paris correspond- ent of the Dafly Telegraph, is busy at present on “Paris,” which, as is well known, is to be the third and last of the volumes brginning with “Lourdes.”” “The book," says Z | contain the whole philosophical balance-sheet of the century; it will even be a synthesis of the develovment of thought since the Great Revolution. The capital of France will | be made in my book the capital of the intel- | lectual world. Assurediy I have a respect for foreign nations. Iknow what greatthings England, Germany and other countries are e of. I honor the intelligence, the and the enterprise of our neighbors; the natural venity of & Frenchman, t 5 the head of the It will not be & book of descriptions and dig ‘Rome,’ tut will be con- its reproduction of the life and moy capital,and rapid and brief in a Ithink it will be an exhaustive repro- but wi Iregard my own world, tion. duction of Parisian I Asked as to the probability of & novel con- g his experiences in London, ) d that he had not sketched out any plan of | such & work yet. He had a vivid recollection, { however, of what he saw in the British | capital, and might in time use his personal knowledge about it in & work of b | dramatis persona belng iaevital | do not know England and the the novelist, “and could not, therefore, under- | | take to treat the subject from & psychological If I were to do anything in it would be based on whet I saw of London’s great waterw Thames, whieh | has been the source o wealth, power and grandeur of the capital of England. Whoever has not seen the Thames cannot explain the greatness of London, whose heart and pulse | | it 18 | | NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS. 1 “I must save this.” So we say as we read in our daily paper. It may be a powerful article | on some potit cal question or a new mayonaise d We cut it put it away some- wented it is usually missing, inglish exchange. | | With most of usitis a perplexing question | | how best to preserve these clippings. Itre-| quires more time and petience then goes to | the average make-up to keep well-arranged and systematic scrapbooks. Accumulated pro- | miscuously they are almost useless. An acqueintance of mine has solved the problem | most charmingly. During the years of her long life (she has celebrated her golden wed- | ding) sne has made a practice of cutting out | enything of interest to herself and placing it | 2 that book in her library treating on the | same subject. Her large library has thus be- | | come doubly interesting and valuable. | These unassuming bits of paper often act as | | side lights, illuminating and making clesrer | the original thought. As I browsed among her | books 1 found in & volume of Tennyson a | sketch of the poet's life, a clipping from Punch | on the occasion of his knighthood, a little ex- | planatory note on the words, “bar of Angelo,” that helped me to read “In Memoriam’ more 0ld Creole Days” was a ten of George Cable, another oi the French | | the Church Militant” was filled with these | fugitive poems, often so beautiful in senti- | ment, that are read, admired and forgotten iu | the course of the day. The dictionary and a | | book of quotations were receptacles for clip- pings on the origin of words or phrases. Some- | times these scraps were pasted around ihe margin or attached to the top of the page, but were usually lyiog loose in the book. An old copy of Magnall’s “‘Question’” had in itodd- ities of history. Abook on natural history was greatly In- creased in interest aud in reading matter by eanings relative to bird and ani- Parrot, snake and monkey stories were there galore, but there was also much ive to the less well-known brauches of sgdom. Every volume of an “American Encyclopedin” was bulged out of shapa by its added wealth of information, the culled anno- tations being often iresher and more reliable | than the main article. In taking down & | book from this library there is always the | pleasurable excitement of discovery. One almost instinctively turns first to the clip- | pings. Where much reading is doue they might be in the way, but the books from the bookcase are not usually the reading of the family. Our systematic {riend put few scraps | 1n the books most used, and her friends, ac- | customed to her ways, knew where to go in search of information. “Mother's scraps’’ were & whole reference library to her family, A CURIOUS OLD BIBLE. James Vincent Sr. of Tabor, Jows, owns the | only copy of the “Bug Bible’ in the United States. S0 he writes o Librarian Stevenson of the Alleghany Carnegie Library. Thereis no | airect offer of sale, but a suggestion that it should be in some public library, | Mr.Vincentsays the Bible was brought to this country in 1848, and that it is one of only four copies extant, the remaining three being in Euglish collections. He says it bears date | of 1549 and hes the introduction by Mil Coverdale. His allusion to the queer transla- tion of a word, which has given this Bible the name of “Bug,” is correct, and if he states the date accurately it is a more precious copy than that generally called the “Bug Bible,” In the fifth verse of the Ninety-first Psalm the reading 15, “Thou shal: uot need to be atraid for any bugges by night,” whereas the author- ized version has “terror’” for ‘bugges”—pos- sibly & word akin with bogie and not an old English plural for bug. Then Mr. Vincent alludes to th note of the editor to the third chlp:irc‘;;x?l‘l‘; first epistle of St. Peter, where the text al. indes to the wife, Sare: “And if she be not | obedient and helpful unto him (he) endeavor- | eth to beat the faar of God into her head, that thereby she may be compelied to learn her duty and to doit.” Such were sixteenth ceq- tury ideas of disciplining a wife. Mr. Stevenson says he has o fund available for the purchase of rare editions of the Bible, 1or if once begun an approach 1o even & fine coliection would entail a large expenditure, companions, all named from typographical errors, as the “Vinegar Bible,” which calis the parable of the vineyard that of the * ‘vinegars the “Placemaker’s Bible,” which contains the nd | | not peacemakers, blessed, and not least of all, | The “Bug Bible” has its mueh better known | 21 THE LATE MRS. MARGARET HUNGERFORD, “ THE DUCHESS.” GLEVER VERSES BY RHYMSTERS OF THE DAV. Liove and the World. Dear, do you sigh that your love may not stay with you, Laugh with and play with you, Weep with and pray with you, All his life through Think, O my heart, if you never had found me, Crept through the cere-clothes the world has wound round me, What would you do? Wide is the world, and so many would sign for you, Long for and cry for you, Ween for and die for you, You betug you. 1, only I am the man you could sigh tor, Live for and sufter for, sorrow and die for, Twenty lives through. Think! Had I missed youl The world was so wide for us, Traps on each side for us, Noshing as guide for us, Yet Iand you Found life’s great treasure, the last and the first, love; Lite's little things, time and srace, do their worst, lovel What, alter all, can they do? Pall Mall Gazette. The Quest. Upon my lips there fell, when first the night Pales in the highest neaven, seeing day Far down the fathomless eastern depths away— Pales with a fearful joy, a dread delight— Upon my lips, with wakeful watohing white, ‘here fell kiss. One instant’s space it lay Soft as rose leaf that the west winds fray. And then my eyes awoke to dazzled sight. The warmth, the tender impéct and the thrill Burnt on my lips, and tne calm pulse of Sleep Awoke and quivered quick in soft surprise. From that day forward knew I love! And etill By day I search, and nightly vigil keep TFor her revealed to me in such strange wise. —By the late H. C. BUNNER in the February Scribner’s. Death an Epicurean. Death loveth not the woeful heart, O the soul that's tired of living. Nay, it's up and away With the heart that's gay Ana the life that’s worth the glving. Seldom he stops where his welcome's sure, Where age and want are sighing. Nay, it's up and away, For he scorns to stay With the wretch who would be dying. Ah, iUs youth and love and a cloudless sky The epicurean’s aiter. Nay. it's up and away When the world’s in May And life is full of lnughter. JEAN WBIGHT, in February Lippincott’s. the “Wicked Bible,” which leaves “not” out of the seventh commandment. In 1877 there was held in South Kensington, chend | quarter of New Orleans and criticiems favor- | Englaud, the Caxton memorial celebration in to deal that be | able and sdverse to the writer. “Hymns of | honor of the four hundredih anniversary of Caxton’s printing prass. Partof the exhibition was devoted to Bibles, and therein was a “Bug Bible” ot 1551. It was known as the Matthews translation, s pseudonym for John Daniel, and the text was that of Coverdsle, the first trans- lator of the complete Bible into English from the ““Douche and Latyn.”” But the bug error is also in the Matthews editio of 1549. It was in these days when the common people dared not possess & Bible, and William Lyndale was strangled to death. But what this Caxton ex- hibition solved was what, as & literary mys- tery, hud elicited inquiry for three centuries. “Where was tho Coverdale transiation printed?” It was settled to be Antwerp, Bel- glum, and, curiously enough, that is where Mr. Vincents Bible was printed, LITERARY NOTES. E. F. Benson’s volume describing life at Cambridge is to be issued this month by Messrs. Putnam, Its title 1s “The Babe, B. A.” Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox is now writing & romance in verse. It wiil be of considerable length and will be published some time during 1897 L Two more of Laurence Hutton's entertain- ing handbooks, “Literary Landmarks of Rome” aud “Literary Landmarksof Florence,” aresoon to be issued, with illustrations, by the Harpers. The Macmillan Company announces that the compllation of an “Encyclopedia of American Horticulture” hes been begun under the edi- torial supervision of Professor L. H. Bailey of the Cornell Universit «The True Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton,” by his nfece, Georgiane M. Stisted, is likely to prove one of the most striking and interesting books of the year. It will be pub- lished shortly by D. Appleton & Co. A writer in the Bookman states, on the suthority of & correspondent in India, that Rudyard Kipling’s stories are fairly popular in the barrack-rooms in that country, but his barrack-room baliads and other poems are not cared for. Professor Keasboy’s long-promised. yolume on “Ihe Nicaragua Canal and the Monroe Doctrine” will appearsoon. It is a compre. hensive political history of the varlous pro- jects of interoceanic transit across the Ameri- can isthmus, The new novel by Sienkiewicz, entitled “Quo Vadis,” is in its sixth edition, though it has been issued only abor t two months. In many of the cities of the United States it is said by the Bookmar: to be the best-selling novel now in the bookstores. Godey’s Magazine for February is espectally strong in the variety of its topics. Iis make- up is also very attractive, the reading matter being intersnersed throughout with illustra- tions, among them several full-page portraits or types of handsome women. Several new volumes of Scottish storfes and idyls are in preparation, a circumstance which, in conjunction with the fact that over 60,000 copies of “Kate Carnegie,” lan Mac- laren’s latest work in fiction, have beenm already sold, iudicates that as yet there is'no decline in the demand for literature of the Kailyard school. The Macmillan Company have recently pub- lished a translation of “The Recollections o Alexis de Tocqueville,” by Tiexeira de Mattes. Gladstone is an admirer of De Tocqueville, and writes, I have slways revered him as a true political sage.” Alexis de Tocqueville's work on American demoeracy did much to en- hauce the esteem for America among Euro- pean nations. The total sales of F. Marion Crawford’s novels in the United States has been upward of half & million copies. His most popular book, “Saracenesca,” counts up to 110,000. 18 other works is aint Ilarie,” “Don Orsino,” “Dr. “Katherive Lauderdale,” “The The Ralstons,” *‘Casa Braccio” and “Pletro Ghisler The order of popularity of as follows Claudius,” Oh, these ministers’ sons, says the Literary Digest. The Rev. Dr. Crane wrote a book on “Popular Amusements’’ 1n 1869, in which he warned the world that ‘“novel-reading has be- come one of the great vices of our age,” and advised his resders, in italics, too, “if you have but little time for reading” to “spend none of it on works of fiction.” And itishis own son who has written “The Red Badge of Courage.’ Beginning with the February issue, which is the initial number of volume XIV, the Monthly Tllustrator Publishing Company an- nounce some important changes in their popt- lar magazine. It will appear in new dress but under the old_titie of Home and Country. The magazine will be enlarged one-third above its present size and new departments will be added. It will be embellished with the finest {llustrations it is possible to produce. Among Christmas books which appeared in Parls may be noted an album containing col- ored reproductions of nearly ity water-color drawings by M. Boutet de Monval, illustrating the life of Joan of Arc. This information will doubtless be of interest to many of he read- ers of San Francisco, for the librarian of the Mechanics’ Library says the study of the life of Joan of Arc is much in vogue here this winter. Anthony Hope is just finishing a sequel to *“The Prisoner of Zenda.” It isa novel of the same high, romantic kind as “The Prisoner of Zouda” itself, bearing the title of ‘“The Con- stable of Zends,” and carries the attractive personages of the earlier story through a new series of strange and moving incidents. The exclusive right of serial publication in Amer- ica has been secured by McClure's Magazine and the publication of it will begin in that magazine in the course of a few months, A new detective story by Anns Katharine Green, called “That Affair Next Door,” is nounced for immediaie publication by tne Putnams. The same house will soon issue & novel of Washington life by urace Denio Litchfield, called “In the Crucble” ; “Hanni- bal,” a new volume by W. 0’'Connor Morris in the *Heroes of the Nations” serics; and a new 1life of Robert the Bruce, by Sir Herbert Max- well, dedicated to the Prince of Wales. «“The Early Correspondence of Hans von Bulow,” edited by his wile, is the titie of & noteworthy volume which will be published immediately by D. Appleton & Co. These let- ters contain grephic descriptions of the trizls of a young musician and much interesting gossip about Liszt and Wagner, to whose en- couragement Von Bulow owed g0 much {n his youth and early manhood. There are many Tevelations of precocious talent in other direc- tions than music, and the biographical details illustrate a portion of the arust’s life of which little has been known. Many books have been written of life at ses, out with the exception of one or two notable stories they are the work of literary men who however brilliant as writers, haye used their materfals at second hand. “On Many Sess,” recently published by the Macmillan Com- pany, is written by & sailor himself and in its passage through the press has been allowed to lose nothing of its intense and sailor-like vi- tality; and this quality is the keynote to the book. The author has written of his life and exploits, good and evil, as the tale of them de- mund; and he has told it with the dramatic skillof the born storyteller. While Harry Furniss, the able English car- toonist, 15 now on his second visit to this coun- try those who hear him lecture &nd tho who lack the opportunity will be equally priv- ileged on reading his book, “Flying Visits (American Publisners Corporation, New York, cloth §1), a series of articles, illustrated by the author, giving in a delightful manner the humorous impressions received by him during a travel of 7000 miles in sixteen weeks in the British Isles. Nearly every page of his book, which is both deseriptive and instructive, is provocative of laughter, and the 180 engray- ings supply excellent illustrations of the text. An English critie, speaking of William Sloan Kennedy’s new book, “Reminiscences of Wait ‘Whitman,” say: terest in Walt Whitman is deepening and that = far different estimate is being placed on the ‘good gray poet’ by our best writers than that with which Whitman’s own countrymen at first saluted his strange muse. Perhaps he has suffered almost as much from some of his undiscriminating admirers as from his avowed enemies. American men of letters forty years ago, with the exception of Kmerson, could see nothing in the new bard of democracy, 50 that Whitman was fain to traverse aloae his own grand and rugged way.” George W. Cable, author of “The Grandis- simes,” “Old Creole Days,” “‘Dr. Sevier,” etc., has recently made arrangements whereby he is to become the editor of Current Literature. Mr. Cable has been living in Northampton, Mass., for several yearsand has been absorbed in the starting and spread of the ‘home- culture” clubs which have become so widely known of late. With the exception of &n occasional appearance on the lecture platiorm, he has had little time left to him for the relations with the public at large which haye made his name so familisr to all. Under the arrangements which he has now made, he will have a por- tion of his time for his fmaginative writing, and will take more special charge in Current Literature of a department in which it is his purpose to chat in a familiar manner with the readers upon literary, artistic and other topics of the day. His interest in the home- culture movement will not be lost, though he will be unable to participate actively in the management of it. ALMANACS FOR 18¢7. THE DAILY NEWS ALMANAC AND POLITICAL REasTER—Compiled Dy George E. Plumbe. The Chicago Daily News Company, Chicago. This is & complete political year book. The election tables in it have been prepared with great care to show what has been the effect of the action of the various political parties and are as full and complete as it has been possi- ble to make them. The statistics bearing on the financial question sre ample. A concise history of all our financial panics, with their causes, is also given. 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This, in addition to much general in- formation, contains & complete and detailed register of the governments of all the States, particularly of Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey and Maryland. TuE PHILADELPHIA RECORD ALMANAC — For sale by the San Francisco News Company. This contains besides concise general factsa number of pages ebout the American turi, aquatic events, baseball and general sports. THE PUBLIC LEDGER ALMANAC—For le by | the San Francisco News Company. Thisisa very smail one with much condensed intorma- tion about Philadelphis, printed on nice smooth paper. THE FEBRUARY MAGAZINES Rudyerd Kipling, the poet and teller of tales, is known wherever the Englishlanguage 1s spoken; but Rudyard Kipling, the artist, is something hitberto undreamed of. Yet the second (February) number of the new literary' magazine, the Month, will have as a frontispiece an original copyright drawing Dy the famous story-teller. It 15 said to pro- Quce its effect by the broad methods of the designer of decorative posters. Had Mr. Kip- ling “gone in for” this sort of thing, who knows but that Messrs. Beardsley and Bradiey might have had to 100k to their laurels? In McClure’s Magazine for February H.J. W. Pam has a particularly interesting article on “The Making of the Bible.” First it de- scribes by what strange and almost miraculous means narratives of which the original rec- ords have utterly perished survived in fair in- tegrity through centuries of turmoil and con- fusion, and next it describes the finely wrought, typically modern instrumentalities and appliances by which those narratives are to-day published to the world, in all its varied languages, by the million copies, through the Oxford University Press. Picturesof the Uni- versity Press and fac-similes of early texts illus- trate the article. The most novel tning in Scribner's for February is the appearance of C. D. Gib- son as the writer of the notes which accom- pany his first series of sketches portraying “London as Seen by C. D. Gibson.’ As a writer he Sees things with that fresh eye for what is.significant and picturesque in character that marks his drawings., He is in- tensely interested in the pageant of the “Lon- don Streets,” and he tells you why. His drawings (made during his residence in Lon- don) are studies from real people and suggest | These articles, which ( entirely new types. will continue for six months, add & new Gib- son gallery to the Paris and New York typoes already famous. The February number of Current Literature has in addition to its well-filled and interest- ing regular departments a signed articie by Hamilton W. Mabie; an appreciation by W. D. Howells of the verse of the young uegro poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar; & page of selections from the latter’s recently published “Lyrics of | Lowly Life” ; & page of verse, the work of Johanna Ambrosius, Germany's peasant poet; & reading from Paul Leicester Ford’s new book, “The True George Washing- ton”; one on the punishment of authors and Dbooks from Alice Morse Earle’s ““Curious Pun- ishment of Bygone Days”; a story from the pen of Robert Cameron Rogers; another by an F. Bullock, and a special article on oung American Writers of To-day,” by Ed- ward S. Van Zile. The illustrations in the front of the magazine have reference to the text that follows. An interesting number. Harper's Magazine for February isa monu- ment of the policy of exalted journalism which hes characterized it in the past, and which is more and more becoming the policy of American magazines everywhere, Articles on literary research, literary criticism, or ad- vanced thought inartand letters, though by no means entirely absent, are subordinated to reports and discussions of the vital interests of modern life. Richard Harding Davis went all the way to Moscow to report the cor- onation of the Czar snd Czarina. Charles F. Lummis presents the first of & series of ar- ticles on the Mexico of to-aay, in preparing which he spent tnree months beyond the Rio Grande, and Poultney Bigelow bas brought back from Cape Town a series of articles on “White Man’s Africs,” the present number of which, illustrated by Frederic Remington and W. H. Drake from photographs taken by the suthor, discusses the career of President Steyn of the Orange Free State. The cover or the February Overland Monthly will catch the eye among a hundred others. Mount Shasta, a Siskiyou County gold mine, and the Overland’s famous grizzly ap- pear in green snd gold. Thomas Magee contributes an article of more than usual interest on “The Kings River Canyon,” comparing it to the Yosemites of this country and Europe. Dr. J. H. Stailard continues his powerful series of articles on “Municipal Reform”; this second instaliment will without doubt attract fully as much at- tention from the press as did the first. J. E. Bennet concludes his historical sketch of the Californiamissions. All friends of higher edu- cation will be interested in the account of Prof, Clement of the University of Ideho. Charles E. Naylor, whose articles on pilotage have attracted so much attention, contributes a rather drastic articie on “The New Ferry De- Pot.” Part 2 of the siskiyou article is heavily illustrated, and contains a complete history o the county. The stories of the number are Western and the illustrations are up to the mark. The complete novel in the February fssue of Lippincott's is “Under the Pacific,” by Clar- ence Hervert New. It takes the reader to a part of the world he probably never heard of before, where two extremely enterprising Americans conduct & search for long- lost treasure under the most unusual circum- stances. The two * 014 Friends” of whom Edith Brower writes were far apart in age, and one of them was musical; in fact, music and friendship are the keynotes of the tale. “0id Tom of Nantucket,” celebrated Dby Joseph A. Altsheler, was an old man-o’ war's-man in the hands of Algerine pirates, on whom he played & judicious and most Christian trick. M. 8, Baden, in “A Forestry 1dyl,” gives a reminiscence of the great Chi- cago Fair. “South Florida Since the Freeze” is another of R. G. Robinson’s eminently fair-minded and instructive articles. Albert G. Evans handies a topic of vital importance to our great West, “Irrigation.’” FrancisAlbert Doughty writes on “The Southern Side of the Industrisl Ques- tion.” Emily Bally Stone supplies a second amus- ing paper on “Marrying in the Fifteenth Cen- tury. 'A Vanished lizatie —that of the Jesuits in South America—is described by Heary Granville, “The Dignity end Humor of Signs” are dis- cussed by Agnes Carr Sage, and “Gloves” by Elizabeth Ferguson Seat. Dr. Charles C. Ab- bott hasa quaint esssy on “Overdoing the Past.” The poetry of the numbar is by, Jean Wright, Julian Hawthorne, Charles G. D. Roberts, Clarence Urmy and Clinton Scollard. The February issue of St. Nicholas is the Midwinter Holiday number. Frances Courte- nay Baylor, whose story, “Juan aud Juanits, was one of St. Nicholas’ pronounced sucees begins & new serial for girls, “Miss Nina Barrow.” George Kennan, in “A Siberian Scare,” tells of his experienees in the wilds of that country. That he was visited by & Verita- ble ghost the superstitious peasant firmly be- leved, although Mr. Kennan penetrated to | the bottom of the mystery. Julia Taft Bayne | furnishes & paper mbout *“Willie and Tad Lincoln,” who were playmates of her brother. She tells of their pranks in the White House and describes what was. probably the first and only minstrel show given in that building. The programme of the entertainmsnt, rudely traced in Tad’s youthful hand, is reproduced. Mrs. Bayne also tells of “‘Mrs. Lincoln’s Zou- aves,” made up wholly of officers. Asa com- panion article to thisisa paper on “The Birth- Flace of President Lincoin,” by George H. Yenowine. This has illustrations of the scenes connected with the boyhood of the emancipa- tor. Mr. Yenowine tells a story of the rescue from death by drowning of Lincoln by one of his schoolmates, that Mr. Yenowine took down from the lips of the surviving actor in the in- cident. Charles Thaxter Hill, in “An Alarm of Fire by Telegraph,” describes the won- cerful fire-alarm system of New York, and draws many stirring pictures. A sketch ofchild life in the Chinese quarter of San Francisco by Theodore Wores, the artist, is entitled “Ah Gau’s New Year's Celebration.” “The Tale of the Discontented Weathercock” s the final story in “The City of Stories,” by Frank M. Bicknell, The serials, “Master Skylark “June’s Garden,” “The Last Three Soldiers” and “The True Story of Marco Polo” have in- teresting installments. There are many sketches, poems and jingles in the number, all fully fllustrated. The Century for February contains throa serials, viz., the conclusion of Marion Craw- ford’s novelette, “A Rose of Yesterdey”; the fourth par: of Dr. Weir Mitchell's “Hugh Wynne,” ana the continuation of General Horace Porter's recollections of Grant n the fleld. The short stories are A Man and Some | Others,” a tale of the Western plains, by Stephen Crane, and “Miss Selina’s Selile- ment,” & story of New York soclety, by Mrs. Burton Harrison. In addition to these there is a touching narrative by W. J.Stillman of the life and death of two pet Squirrels. Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer, who knows New York by heart, contributes an | iilustrated paper on ‘Places in New York,” the topics of which range from the slu: to the opera. *‘The Battle of Copenhagen,” by Captain A. T. Mahan, is the third of this distingnished writer's studies of Nelson’s victories. Another illustrated article baving & curious interest is & { study of the Siberlan swamp. Vendiand, by Charles de Kay. The paper s attractively Illustrated by Louis Loeb. *In the Desert With the Bedouin” is the title of & paper by R. Talbot Kelly, who suppiles his own filuse trations. Mr. Kelly's paver 1s full of snecdote and incident. A skeich of Samuel Lover, under the title of “The Author of ‘Rory 0'More',” is contriouted by his daughter, Mrs. Fauny Schmid, mother of Victor Herbert, the musician. Jullan Hawthorne contributes & second short paper on Jamaica, entitled ‘A Tropic Climb,” giving graphic descriptions of {he island, with illustrations by Gilbert Gaul. A sympostum in the direction of & compara- five study of the iate war is supplied by Generals S. D. Lee, Joseph Wheeler, E. P. Alexander, E. M. Law, D. C. Buell, 0. O. How- ard and Jacob D. Cox in consideration of the toplc, “Why the Confederacy Failed.” The poetry of the number is contributed by Wil liam H. Thompson, Charles Crandall, Alico Willtams Brotherton. C. G. D. Roberts, Grace { Duffield Goodwin, Robert Underwood Johnson and others. NEW TO-DAT. WISSY 4 TRUE TALE OF MODERN THEATRICAL BOHEMIA RELATED BY JAMES PAXTON VOORHEES. A Story Full of Heart Interest. NEW BOOK. THE AMERICAY NEWS COMPANY, NEW YORK. 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