mant concluded by pointing out the absurdity of | evidently made to deceive and keep the world | the right word for what he wished to say, so looking for any movement to replace the from seeing the real object which the Musco-homely in style, and yet with such a command Mings, or any other native dynasty on the vite is slowly and persistently working to at- of pure and racy English-became for thouImperial throne, arising in Manchuria, the tain. Of course there are difficulties in the sands in London phenomenal. Many went to home of the present holders of the Imperial way of Russia obtaining any concession in hear him out of curiosity, and fell under the power in China. Corea, or undermining its independence; but spell of a ministry so much like what every those who have watched the marvelous course thinking person knows a Christian ministry of events in Central Asia, where the Russians should be. Most of all, living near to God, a have surmounted almost insuperable obstacles, man of prayer, of faith, of absolute devotion will readily understand that, when the time to his work, he was honored with that divine comes, unless adverse circumstances inter-alliance which gives strength even to the weak, vene, Russia will assuredly get what she wants and makes the strong mighty in purpose and in the Corean Peninsula. A PROPOSED NORTHERN LEAGUE. CUSTOMS Engineering (London), Jan. 29.-The rumored proposal to found a Northern Customs League, in which France would coalesce with Russia and Scandinavia, although resting, as yet, on the flimsiest authority, cannot at this juncture be ignored. There is no doubt whatever that if this plan were carried out the united navies of the three Powers would make them masters of the Baltic, while it would at the same time relieve them of the necessity of increasing their maritime forces or of erecting new fortresses, since Copenhagen alone would be quite sufficient. The rapprochement already effected between France and Sweden and Norway, and, for that matter, the Netherlands to boot, is not without a certain significance in this connection. It looks, indeed, as if the Customs League of Central Europe would combination which, so formidable, would have to be reckoned with. France, isolated industrially, would be in a position of such jeopardy that we can well believe she would make any sacrifices, even at the eleventh hour, to avert such a contingency. With the hostility of the Customs League to deal with, no retreat in that direction seems possible. A few minor concessions in any one direction will not act as much of a makeweight against the industrial boycott with which she is largely threatened. On the other hand, history and the unwritten on dits of the European Courts, alike have long pointed to more or less complete understanding, both political and industrial, between France and the Northern Powers, which may not impossibly indicate the directions events are taking, and may, too, leave it an open question whether the conflict which is thus beginning in the marts of Europe will be so bloodlessly fought out after all. RUSSIA AND COREA. Calcutta Statesman, Dec. 26.—If a French diplomatist, or anyone else for that matter, wishes to give useful information regarding the rôle that Russia intends playing in the North Pacific, he must turn to Corea; for there lies the real danger of the situation, and Russians know it. With Corea or any of its ports in her possession, Russia could dominate the Yellow Sea, and not only dictate to China, but threaten Japan, and prove exceedingly troublesome to England, if war should break out. achievement. I believed, The Congregationalist (Boston), Feb. 4.—Mr. SPECIMEN COMPLIMENTS FOR MR. GLAD-Spurgeon was a Calvinist of the severer type. His intellectual range was narrow. He adSTONE FROM THE London "TimeS."—We may pass over the amazingly mendacious statement dressed mainly the lower middle classes, and it [Mr. Gladstone's letter on the Rossendale his sympathies, so strong with them, did not contest] contains that, by returning Mr. interpret the intellectual condition of the upMaden, Rossendale would concur with a large per classes, nor did he prosecute to any extent majority of other British constituencies. This, special work for the outcast and degraded. But as Mr. Gladstone must know, is the exact his heart was larger than his creed, and his opposite of the truth, but it is far from being spiritual power was profound and abiding. the worst of what the Duke of Devonshire, in His gospel was full of the true spirit of Christ. his reply, describes as "the more prominent No man since Paul could say with more emmisrepresentations." It is woeful indeed to phasis than could Mr. Spurgeon, stooping to employ the tactics of the political see a statesman of Mr. Gladstone's eminence therefore did I speak." freebooter, and all in the hope of snatching a few votes, or at best a seat, for his party. We admit that it is at all times not a little difficult to be quite sure that one has caught Mr. Gladstone's meaning, alike in his written as in his spoken statements, but unless there be one language for Mr. Gladstone and another for the rest of us, we are driven to conclude either that the ex-Premier is, in the present instance, grossly deceiving himself, or is as grossly endeavoring to deceive the British electorate.— London Times, Jan. 24. RELIGIOUS. SPURGEON. London dispatch from George W. Smalley, New York Tribune, Feb. 7.-The whole Nonconformist world looked to him as its chief. He was the one man among them who had a hold on the people and on the popular imagination. He was their one great preacher. His name was a flag. There are other able men among these sects, many able men, many men of profound religious sense, of devotion, of learning, of high qualities: Mr. Spurgeon alone had a commanding name and a personality which made him a far-reaching force. He was not the most learned-he was not learned at all; nor the most adroit tactician, nor many other things; but he was Spurgeon. He was a great preacher because he preached year after year to great audiences whom he held spell-bound, captivated, subdued, and obedient We have frequently pointed out to his will. Not eloquent, perhaps, but he that the Power which holds Corea points a pis-reached the ends at which eloquence aims by tol at the head of Japan, and the Japanese are homely and forcible persuasiveness, by authorfully aware of the fact, for they are trying ity, by endless variety of manner, by knowltheir utmost at the present moment to concili-edge of human nature, by eccentricity, and ate the Coreans, or form an alliance with them. above all by the intensity of his conviction and China, too, is no less alive to the danger his unquenchable ardor in the salvation of to her if any port or coastal concessions are souls. How many he saved the Census does made to Russia by Corea; and her Minister not tell us. He had admirable personal qualiat Seoul, the capital of the country, is ties and virtues, among which refinement was employing all the resources of diplomacy not one. But if he lacked delicacy, he had to preserve China's suzerainty, nominal strength, and he was so great a man that nothough it be, over the Coreans, and to pre- body can be named as likely to succeed to his vent the Russian Minister from obtaining influence or his authority. any concessions from them. The stake for which Russia, China, and Japan are now playing is of the utmost moment to the firstnamed Power, and, if it is not exactly a matter of life and death to the second, it is nevertheless one on which her safety depends should she go to war with Russia, while to Japan it is of no less importance. And yet we hear nothing of the quiet underground operations going on in the "Hermit Kingdom," as Corea is sometimes called, which may end in Russia forcing a foothold there. But newspapers and irresponsible writers, penetrated only with one idea, talk wildly of Vladivostok, and deduce Russian designs from movements which are The Churchman (Prot. Epis., New York), Feb. 6.-He was a Scriptural preacher, a textual preacher. He proved how potent is the language of the sacred book, how completely it serves for the guide and inspiration of human lives. There have been many preachers more learned than Spurgeon, many more original. The pulpits of America and England have recently sounded forth much that is gorgeous and convincing, and have echoed the best examples of the sermon from Chrysostom to Phillips Brooks, but this century has not heard a voice raised for Christ with so complete a mastery of Scripture, thought, and language as was exhibited by Spurgeon, who has left a precedent and an example as a man mighty in the Scriptures which no preacher, of whatsoever church or denomination, can afford to disregard. Christian Register (Unitarian, Boston), Feb. 4.-Henry Ward Beecher was not only richer in imagination, more highly gifted with genius, but his progressive spirit constituted him a leader in theology, and in all of the reforms of his time. Either of these great preachers could always draw a crowd, but the audiences they habitually ministered to were very different. Mr. Spurgeon appealed little to thinking people; Mr. Beecher filled his church with them. Mr. Spurgeon had, however, what Mr. Beecher lacked-great power as an organizer. His college was his pet institution. He sent out a regiment of preachers, many of whom lighted their candle at his flame. His "John Plowman" talks and his little paper, the Trowel, were marked by common sense, apt and homely illustration, and proverbial wisdom, which made them immensely popular. Though so widely scattered, and even translated into other languages, his sermons are not likely to survive as any important addition to our body of pulpit literature. His force was in the pulpit: he attracted not posterity, but the ear of his time. Estimated by length of years, he died young; by what he accomplished as a preacher and organizer, he was a Methuselah. THE CLERGY AND SOCIAL REFORM. Living Church (Prot. Epis., Chicago), Feb. 6. The Christian idea of social reform begins Chicago Standard (Bapt.), Feb. 4.-Scarcely with the reformation of the individual. He any one of those qualities which have made must be made to see the innate turpitude and other men famous were found in him. He was injustice of selfishness as at once a sin against simply himself; yet being such, he was a man God and man, whether he be a millionaire or to whom both continents, and men of all con- a pauper. This is the essential characteristic, ditions and ranks of life lent an ear. Perhaps the bottom principle of Christian reform in the marked feature of his preaching as also of sociology, and it presents a marked contrast his books was the plain, direct, uncompromis- with the dynamics of Socialism. It persuades, ing, yet tender and gracious presentation while the latter would force, men to be just. found in them of what men mean when they It seeks to effect radical changes in the indispeak of the gospel, characteristically as such. vidual in order to promote the welfare of When he came to London this kind of preach-society. Socialism, on the contrary, proposes ing was, there, much of a novelty. This young to revolutionize society in order to promote man, so easy of address, so gifted always with the welfare of the individual. The antithesis is very striking between the force of morals i rible scourge when dead, there are many who | economically, probably, than by any other and morals of force. Christianity is in no dan- must be sure that their friends will have to means.' Primarily the change will be of an ger of failing to be, what it has so often been, undergo this additional horror in their death. industrial nature; yet its ramifications will be the conservator of all that is righteous in social No matter who it be-prince, cardinal, politi- | felt throughout the industrial system of the economics, so long as it addresses its remedial cian, criminal, or nonentity-every one is fair land. In short, the great tunnel means a social power, fearlessly and persistently, to the extir-game for the author of “ Imaginary Conversa- revolution; and it may not be long coming, íor pation of individual selfishness. Let the clergy tions with the Dead; to which are added Notes the world appears to be moving at a faster pace put in their best work along that line. There on their Idiosyncrasies in the Payment of their socially as well as physically than it did in the is no reason why the clergy should decline to Washing Bills." There is always "One Who earlier days, when science was less daring and connect themselves with organizations for Knew Him"-generally several more-who is the new forces just awakening into life were social reform which do not compromise Chris- ready to reel off an endless string of triviali- looked upon as diversions for experimentaltian truth. They will often accomplish great ties, imaginary or otherwise, as to his habits ists.-Philadelphia Record. good and repress much evil. They ought, and manners, which, even if historically true, however, to exercise a wise discrimination. | are the last things to be remembered A GERMAN NAME.-The prospectus is issued or brought up against the dead. There of the Munich Forstlichnaturwissenschaftliche would be no objection to these journalistic Zeitschrift, an organ for laboratories of forestmemoirs if they took the form of respectful botany, forest-zoölogy, forest-chemistry, agritributes to the memory of those who have done culture, and meteorology. The entire title something for the world or their fellow-men; will appear in every number.-New York but this is the very last shape they take. They Evening Post. are calculated to belittle their subjects, to reduce them to the standard of the narrowest life, of which the most remarkable incidents are the appetite for meals and the hour of going to bed. No priest should ally himself with men whose where God has put him. MISCELLANEOUS. FOREIGN COMMERCE IN 1891. Engineering and Mining Journal (New York), Feb. 6.-According to the statement of the Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department the imports of merchandise into the United States in 1891 were valued at $828,312,642, an increase of about $5,000,000 over the value of imports for the twelve months ending Dec. 31, 1890. case To this end 44 An A FIENDISH EXPERIMENT.-The vivisectionists are of two classes: the one (mostly French) who, as in the public inquiry on the subject, boldly affirm that the pain inflicted on dumb animals "never enters into their minds"; the other who, while regretting the pain, hold it of small consequence compared with the possible benefit that may result from it to humanity that is, the other humanity. In a where murder was lately committed in Paris by pouring molten lead into a drugged man's ear, it was sought to be established that the pain must have awakened him. and one supposes they will be justified by the No. 2 class-two doctors got a dog and experimented upon it in a similar fashion. eye-witness," says the Pall Mall Gazette, "describes its sufferings as passing description. It was so frantic with pain that it shook off the The value of the ex-straps that fastened it down to the tortureports during the year was $970,506,248, table like rotten pack-thread." The names of which is much in excess of any prior year. The value of the exports in 1890 was $857,502,548, and in 1889, $827,106,347. The increase in exports of domestic merchandise stated in the order of magnitude of value was principally in breadstuffs, raw cotton, copper and manufactures of copper, iron and steel, manufactures of iron and steel, cotton, and INTERESTING JEWISH STATISTICS.-We have manufactures of cotton. There was a decrease received the printed seventeenth annual report in the exports of provisions, mineral oils, cat- of the United Hebrew Charities of the City of tle, wood, and manufactures of wood. Thus it New York, the greatest [Jewish] charitable orwill be seen that the balance in trade in favorganization in the country, if not in the world. of our exports in 1891 was $142,193,636. Our Its total receipts for the year ending Oct. 1, exports and imports of gold and silver during 1891, were $r73,477.96, and the disbursements the last calendar year were as follows: Ex-show a deficit of $254.68, due to the Treasurer ports of gold, $78,088,312; imports of gold, $44,970,110; excess of exports of gold, $34,118,202; exports of silver, $27,196.937; imports of silver, $18,192,750; excess of exports of silver, $9,004,187; excess of exports of gold and silver combined, $43,122,389. It will be remembered that the exports of gold during the first seven months of the year were unprecedently large, and only since August have the imports of gold exceeded the exports. these fiendish miscreants are not given, but, if Oct. 1, 1891. The message of the Executive Committee is in much more than one sense an intensely interesting document. Under the head of "Immigration" the committee give the following statistical table of new arrivals at New York during the year ending Sept. 30, 1891: 26,891 men, 16,393 women, 19 290 children; total, 62,594. Among these were: Austrians, 6,450: Danes, 291; Dutch, 9; English, 98; French, 19; Germans, 864; Roumanians, 874; Russians, 54,184; Swedes, ONE WHO KNEW HIM." 24; Turks, 13. The enormous amount of work accomplished by the Charities can be imSaturday Review (London), Jan. 23.-The agined when breath has scarcely left the body when "One Bureau has found employment during the year we say that the Employment Who Knew Him' takes pen and paper, in for four thousand profoundest grief, and proceeds to earn a (St. Louis), Feb. 5. persons!-Jewish Voice guinea by describing, with the greatest unction, trivial details as to the dead man's manner of existence, picked up, as the fruit of vulgar curiosity, at a few chance meetings. The less the acquaintance of the writer with his subject-and, generally speaking, it is evidently a good deal less-the more chatty" andreadable" is the resulting article. If the poor man who was unfortunate enough to be known drank coffee after dinner, with or without sugar, there is meterial for an article. There is none among the living who can know that he will be exempt from this new and ter " 66 ELECTRIC POWER FROM NIAGARA FOR BUFFALO.-The completion of the great tunnel in progress at Niagara Falls will not only mean the full development of that rather quiet town, but probably in far greater measure an impetus in all conceivable ways to the city of Buftalo, twenty-five miles distant. The Scientific American thinks that " light, heat, and motive power for streets, vehicles, works, shops, factories, stores, churches, and dwellings can be osupplied from the dynamos at Niagara more OBITUARY. SIR MORELL MACKENZIE. Harper's Weekly, Feb. 13.-There died in London last week one of the most distinguished and notable members of the medical Sir Morell profession this age has seen. Mackenzie, who was knighted four or five years ago on account of his services in prolonging the life of the Crown Prince of Prussia, who was afterward for a few brief months Emperor of Germany, had already achieved great fame in his profession some twenty years When Dr. before he was called in that case. Mackenzie died, he was not yet fifty-five years old, and yet he had been a pioneer in his specialty of the diseases of the throat. Twenty years ago there were two such men in Vienna, one in Berlin, and none in Paris, and Dr. Mackenzie was the only one in England. He was noted for the carefulness and thoroughness In 1863 he founded the Hospital of his work, for Diseases of the Throat in London, and about the same time received the Jacksonian prize from the Royal College of Surgeons for an essay on diseases of the larynx. In 1870 he published a book on "Growths of the Larynx." During these years he was certainly one of the busiest men in London. Although he had an immense private practice, he lectured to students on diseases of the throat, wrote monographs on diphtheria and hay fever, and prepared his great work, which is now the standard authority on "Diseases of the Nose and Throat." His fame was established and worldwide, and he had lived down the prejudice which the general practitioners of London had against him when he first set up as a specialist. Dispatch from London, New York Sun, Feb. 7-He charged enormous fees to the rich. He would not accept money from the poor. A touching story illustrating his kindness of heart is related in one of to-day's newspapers. Into one of the hospitals to which he gave a portion of his time each week was brought a wretched little working girl who had attempted Sir Morell attended her day after day, but her to commit suicide by swallowing carbolic acid. case was hopeless, and she was finally sent to her home in an East End slum to die. She lingered on for two or three weeks, and all her thoughts and conversation were of the great physician who had tended her so carefully and treated As her final moments drew near she begged that some one would go to her so kindly. ' her doctor," as she termed him, and bring him to her bedside. So importunate were her entreaties that a city missionary, who visited her daily, ventured to call on Sir Morell and tell him of the dying girl's request. "Can I do anything for her?" asked Dr. Mackenzie. No," said the missionary, "she is past human aid, but your presence would give her untold comfort." "I'll go," said Dr. Mackenzie, and he put aside all other_engagements, went five miles to an East End tenement house, sat down by the girl's bedside for an hour, suggested one or two simple alleviations, called her "my dear," and left her with two or three bank notes squeezed up in her hand. Index to Periodical Literature. AMÈRICAN AND ENGLISH. BIOGRAPHICAL. Manning (Cardinal). Geo. D. M. Peixotto. Menorah, Feb., 4 pp. With portrait. Monarch (The Last American). James Raelf, Jr. Arena, Feb., 10 pp. A sketch of Dom Pedro II. of Brazil. Spencer (Herbert). William Henry Hudson. Arena, Feb., 12% pp. A biographical sketch of the great philosophier. Strong (James), S.T.D., LL.D.-American Old Testament Scholars. The Rev. J. W. Mendenhall, D.D. Old & New Test. Student, Feb., 5 pp. With portrait. EDUCATION, LITERATURE, AND ART. Authors and Critics. Augustine Birrell, M.P. New Review, London, Jan., 9 pp. Leave bad and insignificant books alone that the time may be devoted to the real criticism of the few living, and many dead, classics. Drexel Institute (The), Philadelphia. Chauncey M. Depew, LL.D. Engineering Magazine, Feb., 6 pp. Address delivered at the dedication of the Institute. Fiction, The Danger of the Analytic Spirit in. Paul Bourget. New Review, London, Jan., 8 pp. It leaves no spontaneity in the characters, who see everything from the author's point of view. Homer, The Figures of. Miss Julia H. Caverno. Andover Rev., Feb., 21 pp. By figures here are meant the epithets, metaphors, and similes found in Homer's works. Literary Drama (The): A Reply. Henry Arthur Jones. New Review, London, Jan., 8 pp. A spirited criticism to H. D. Truell's article in the December number of the New Review. Adds Rembrandt as Educator. H. C. Bierwirth. Andover Rev., Feb., 20 pp. one more to the already numerous articles on the anonymous and hard-to-beunderstood publication, "Rembrandt als Erzieher." Schools (Common)-Do They Educate? Editorial. Andover Rev., Feb., 4 pp. Proposes some radical changes. University Extension in the United States. Prof. E. J. James. Our Day, Feb., 7 PP. POLITICAL. Congress, How a Bill Presented in, Becomes a Law. George Harold Walker. Chautauquan, Feb., 41⁄2 pp. Gives in detail the process of law-making, with comments thereon. Cuba, Spain, and the United States. Rollo Ogden. Chautauquan, Feb., 4 PP. Argues that we could not get Cuba if we wanted to, and would not want to if we could. Danger Ahead. Robert S. Taylor. Arena, Feb., 11 pp. The "danger" is the gerrymander. The best way to avert it is by general ticket, with the right of cumulation. Election Frauds, the Greatest Danger of the Republic. President Harrison. Our Day, Feb., 3 pp. England in Egypt. I. Madame Adam. II. Edward Dicey, C.B. New Review, London, Jan., 10 pp. German Politics, The Present Position of. George Wheeler Hinman, Ph.D. Chautauquan, Feb. 4 pp. Points out the Republic and Monarchy. M. Ellinger. Menorah, Feb., 7 pp. Quebec, The Approaching Election in the Province of. Editorial. Andover Rev., Affliction, Lessons from. The Rev. F. H. Larkin. Presbyterian College Journal, Alaska, The Moravian Mission in. The Rev. J. Taylor Hamilton. Mag. of Christian Literature, Feb., 61⁄2 pp. The commencement, progress, and success of the mission described. Atonement (The). The Rev. Burt Estes Howard. Arena, Feb., 11 pp. The true atonement takes place not on Calvary but in our own heart. This is the true reconciliation. Compilation, The Evidence of. Prof. Henry P. Smith. Old & New Test. Student, Feb., 6 pp. Refers to the composition of the Old Testament books. Ecclesiastes, The Book of. Prof. F. B. Denio. Old & New Test. Student, Feb., 6 pp. Ethnic Religion in Its Relation to Christianity. Professor Gerhart. Andover Rev., Feb., 11 pp. Inspiration and Heresy. P. Cameron, B.C.L. Arena, Feb., 6 pp. The Church should drop the spirit and practice of so-called trials for heresy, citations for opinions, and errors in theories, which are but feeble imitations of Rome, and bring her into ridicule. Jesus, Some of the "Hard Sayings" Imputed to. C. G. Howland. Unitarian, Feb., 6 pp. "Life in Himself": A Meditation on the Consciousness of Jesus Christ. Professor Tucker. Andover Rev., Feb., 9 pp. A sermon. Luke-Was He Inspired? The Rev. Professor Pollok, D.D. Presbyterian College Journal, Montreal, Feb., 5 pp. Maccabees, the First Book of, The Religious Ideas of. Prof. Frank C. Porter. Minnesota, Jesuit Aggression in the Public Schools of. Our Day, Feb., 7 pp. Unbelief (Current). Sir William Dawson, L.L.D., F.R.S. Presbyterian College Journal, Montreal, Feb., 8 pp. What most injures humanity is not infidelity but indifference. Woman's Word and Work. Unitarian, Boston, Feb., 2 pp. SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY. Cuneiform Inscriptions (the). The Discovery and Decipherment of. II. The Second Period of Assyro-Babylonian Excavations. Robert Francis Harper, Ph.D. Old & New Test. Student. Feb., 4 pp. Human Flight, Suggestions Towards. Hyland C. Kirk, M.E. Engineering Mag., Feb., 15 Pp. Illus. Lays down six principles. some of which must be involved in any flying apparatus. Hypnotism Its Relation to Psychical Besearch. B. O. Flower. Arena, Feb., 19 Mining (American) in 1891. Albert Williams, Jr., E. M. Engineering Mag., Feb., Wind (The) as a Factor in Geology. George P. Merrill. Engineering Mag., Feb., 12 pp. Illus. Shows how important geologically is the wind as an abrading and transporting agent, noting some of its effects during the period of human history. Ethical Resources (Our). President Hyde. Andover Rev., Feb., 9 pp. Forces at our disposal which we can bring to bear upon our boys and girls to help them become strong-souled men and noble-hearted women. Health, Proposed National Board of. Sanitarian, Feb., 7 pp. Text of the Bill introduced in the United States Senate, Dec. 10, 1891, by Mr. Harris. Highbinders. Frederic J. Masters. Chautauquan, Feb., 4 PP. The origin and workings of Chinese secret societies in California. Intemperance, How It Has Been Successfully Combated. Duchess of Rutland. New Review, London, Jan., 13 pp. Treats of the labors of the National Temperance League, The Women's, and other Temperance Unions. Meets Jewish Side of the Question (The). Max Cohen. Menorah, Feb., 3 pp. the suggestion that the Jews should disarm their persecutors by becoming Christians. Jews in Russia (the), the Persecution of, The Real Cause of. E. S. Mashbir. Menorah, Feb., 9 pp. Ascribes it to jealousy of Jewish superiority. Railroad Problem (The). Lionel A. Sheldon. Arena, Feb., 10 pp. Present conditions are unsatisfactory all around. The evil is the high rates of transportation. The remedy must be found either in general consolidation or in Government control. Red Men (the), Rights and Wrongs of. Our Day, Feb., 5 pp. Platform of the Ninth Annual Mohonk Conference of the Friends of the Indians. Sanitation in the United States, The Status of. Harry Kent Bell, M.D. Sanitarian, Feb., 18 pp. A compilation of facts on the subject from official reports and other sources. Sewage, The Utilization of. Alfred Carpenter, M.D. Sanitarian, Feb., 8_ pp. A paper read at the International Congress of Hygiene and Demography, London, 1891. Societies (Women's) What Next in? Margaret W. Noble. Chautauquan, Feb., 2 pp. Women's organizations have been uniformly elevating in charaeter; but their highest goal will be reached when the prefatory "woman's" is discarded. Solidarity (The) of the Race. Henry Wood. Arena, Feb., 9 pp. Strawberry Hill. Eugene L. Didier. Chantauquan, Feb., 10 pp. Illustrated. A picture of English Social Life in the Eighteenth Century. Woman's Congress (The). Isabel Howard. Chautauquan, Feb., 3 pp. Notes on the Convention at Grand Rapids, October, 1891. Women, Opportunities for, in Washington, D. C. Chautauquan, Feb., 14 pp. How a woman may profitably spend her leisure hours in the Capital. UNCLASSIFIED. The Engineer (an) Who is? Oberlin Smith, Engineering Mag., Feb., 7, pp. term should be confined to those who practice in that" profession which dominates the civilization and progress of the world." Engineering (Government) Defended. Lieut.-Colonel W. R. King, U. S. E. C. Engineering Mag., Feb. 122 pp. Equity Jurisdiction as Applied to Crimes and Misdemeanors. Richard C. McMurtrie. Amer. Law Register and Rev., Jan. 16 pp. Gold Fields of South Africa (The). I. Gustave Hallé, Asso. Mem. Inst. C. E. Engineering Mag., Feb. 14 PP. Illus. Descriptive. "Merry England." Duke of Marlborough, New Review, London, Jan.. 17 pp. Admits that there was a Merry England across the Atlantic in the days of "Good Queen Bess," but appears to place the real Merry England in the future in the United States. Mortgages Executed Under Powers to Sell Land and Pay Debts. Daniel W. Palestine About the Year 1400 B.C., According to New Sources. Mag. of Christian Literature, Feb., 32 PP. Lecture of Dr. H. Zimmer, of the University of Halle. Condensed translation by Prof. Schodde. Parker's (Theodore) Grave in Florence. Unitarian, Feb., 2 pp. Railroad Accidents, A Year of. H. G. Prout, Editor of the "Railroad Gazette," N. A. Rev., Feb., 13 pp. Presents statistics of the accidents for 1891; comments upon them. Railroad-Building, The Decline in. Thomas L. Greene. Engineering Magazine, Feb., 7 PP. Rome, The Pageant at, in the Year 17 B.C. Rodolfo Lanciani. Atlantic Monthly. Boston. Feb., 8 pp. Tells of the Games, Religious Celebrations, etc. Saddle and Sentiment (continued). Wenona Gilman. Outing. New York, Feb., 12 pp. Illus. by Hy. S. Watson, San Francisco, Pioneer Days in. John W. Palmer. Century. Feb., 20 pp. Illus. Descriptive. Ships (Our) on the Lakes and Seas. Samuel A. Wood. Chautauquan. Feb., 31⁄2 pp. Our merchant marine, including inland and coastwise vessels, is second only to that of Great Britain. Smelt Fishing, Winter. Clayton J. Kinsley. Outing. New York, Feb. 2 pp. Success, The Secret of. Richard S. Storrs. D.D. Homiletic Rev., New York, Training. Malcolm W. Ford. Outing. New York, Feb., 3 pp. On Athletic Training. Volga (the), A Journey on. Isabel F. Hapgood. Atlantic Monthly. Boston, Feb., 10 pp. Goethe's Grandson. GERMAN. BIOGRAPHICAL. A J. Schwabe. Deutsche Revue, Breslau, Dec., 8 pp. sketch of Wolfgang Goethe. Russia, A Financier of the 17th Century in. Prof. A. Bruckner. Russische Rev., St. Petersburg, Oct.-Dec., 42 pp. A biographical sketch of the exiled Servian Jurij Krisanitsch and of his political and financial writings. EDUCATION, LITERATURE, AND ART. Auerbach and Heine. Anton Bettelheim. Nation, Berlin, Jan. Reminiscences and gossip. Education (The Higher). P. W. Forchammer. Deutsche Revue, Breslau, Dec., Humanity, The Elite of. J. V. Wedmann. Nation, Berlin, Jan., 3 pp. Takes for its subject Paul Radiot's modern epic, L'Elite. Munich Exhibition (The Third), Painting at. H. A. Lier. Unsere Zeit, Leipzig, Dec., 11 pp. Tolstoi (Count Leo), Fritz Lemmermayer. Unsere Zeit, Leipzig, Dec., 13 pp. Based on a letter from the dying Turgenief in which he besought Tolstoi to return to pure literature as his true vocation. University Life, Scenes from. I. 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At Albany, the Assembly Committee on Codes grants a hearing on the Bill to amend the law relating to the appearance of children on the stage......Negotiations giving control of the Poughkeepsie Bridge to the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad are closed......Seven mail pouches, West-bound, are stolen from the wagons while crossing Hoboken Ferry...... The Republican State Executive Committee is called to meet in New York City on the 13th inst. It is stated that Italy, Belgium, and Switzerland will adopt defensive measures against the new French tariff......Sir Morell Mackenzie, the distinguished English physician, dies. Thursday, February 4. In the Senate, the New York Bridge Bills are unfavorably reported by the committee......The House adopts the new rules......Governor Flower commutes to imprisonment for life the death sentence of Nicola Trezza, murderer ......Many railroads, East and West, are blockaded with freight......In Westchester County. three men are held in $5,000 bail for the kidnapping of Ward Waterbury......In New York City, the Chamber of Commerce appoints a committee to solicit subscriptions for the Russian famine sufferers......The draft of a new Bill to reorganize the Street-Cleaning Department is presented by a committee of citizens to Mayor Grant for his approval......Russell Sage, Jr., dies. 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The steamer Venezuela, of the Red D Line, goes ashore on Brigantine Shoals in a snow squall; the passengers are brought to New York....In New York City, Mrs. Tripp, who had hypnotized her husband so that he obeyed her slightest command, is taken to the insane ward of Bellevue Hospital. In Santiago de Chili, Minister Egan's house is still guarded by the police; the sentences of the assailants of the Baltimore's men are made more severe. ...Emperor William personally urges large German manufacturers to send exhibits to the Chicago World's Fair. Saturday, February 6. The Senate not in session......In the House, eulogies are pronounced on Representative Lee.... .The steamer Polynesian, of the Allan Line, goes ashore near Cape Henry...... The will of John Crerar, the Chicago millionaire, who left a large fund for founding a library, is sustained.....The PostmasterGeneral issues an order increasing the number of money-order offices...... In New York City, many explosive matches were found scattered among bales of cotton about to be loaded into a transatlantic steamship......A commission finds the insane quarters on Hart's Island in a deplorable condition ......Annual dinner of the Manhattan Athletic Club. Pieto Carvalho, Portuguese Administrator-General of Customs, is dismissed News is received of the loss of the Greek steamer Embiricos on the coast of one of the Scilly Islands......The work of unloading the cargo of the wrecked steamer Eider continues; it is now hoped to save the vessel. Sunday, February 7. Secretary Blaine announces in a letter to Chairman Clarkson that his name will not come before the National Republican Convention as a candidate for the Presidency... The report of the Immigration Commission which was sent to Europe last Summer, is made public...... William McClelland, Adju-' tant General of Pennsylvania, dies at Harrisburg.. The annual report of President Eliot, of Harvard, is made public......In New York City, the Hotel Royal is destroyed by fire, at 3 o'clock A.M., resulting in great loss of life. A Congress of French labor exchanges agrees to Federation......Count de Launay, Italian Ambassador at Berlin, dies. Monday, February 8. ..... In the Senate, Mr. Stewart makes a statement regarding his position in the Idaho Senatorship contest; the President sends in the name of E. C. O'Brien, of New York, to succeed W. W. Bates as Commissioner of Navigation.... In the House, it is decided that the Committee on Appropriations shall conduct the World's Fair investigation......Governor Boyd assumes the office of Governor of Nebraska, General Thayer retiring in accordance with the declsion of the Supreme Court.....McElvaine, murderer, is executed at Sing Sing .In New York City, the annual report of the Museum of Art shows a deficit of $7,375.84; the need of a larger appropriation is strenuously urged William H. Beers resigns the presidency of the New York Life Insurance Company, but is retained as "adviser" at $37,500 a year...... The American Fine Art Society has a dinner at Carnegie Music Hall, The conciliation party defeat the Radicals in the Argentine elections...... A St. Petersburg dispatch says there is great improvement in the famine situation......Joseph Chamberlain is formally chosen to succeed Lord Hartington (now Duke of Devonshire) as Parliamentary leader of the Liberal-Unionists Tuesday, February 9. In the Senate, the Finance Committee reports unfavorably three Free Coinage Bills......In the House, a number of Bills are introduced and reported... The three Canadian Reciprocity Commissioners arrive in Washington.....The President gives the final official reception for the season......At Albany, the Democratic Legislative caucus names James F. Crooker, for many years Superintendent of Schools at Buffalo, to succeed Judge Draper as State Superintendent of Public Instruction......Bishop Doane is the choice of both caucuses for Regent of the University......A Bill abolishing the Aqueduct Commission is introduced in both Houses of the Legislature......Canal appropriations aggregating upwards of $2,100,000 pass the Assembly......Governor Bulkeley, of Connecticut, asks the people of that State to meet at Hartford on Washington's Birthday, to raise money for the World's Falr......In New York City, seventeen bodies have been taken from the ruins of the Hotel Royal Tenth annual meeting of the Charity Organization Society......Annual dinners of the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York and the Yale Alumni of Long Island. ...... The British Parliament is reopened with the reading of the Queen's speech The Norwegian Storthing is opened with a speech from the Throne...... 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