Index to Periodical Literature. AMERICAN AND ENGLISH. BIOGRAPHICAL. Blaine (James G.), Reminiscences of. E. J. Edwards. Dickens (Charles)--My Father as I Recall Him. Ma- Mothers of Great Men. The Rev. J. H. Myers. Selous (Frederick Courteney).-Character Sketch. Rev. of Revs., London, March, 14 pp. With Portrait. EDUCATION, LITERATURE, ART. Art (British), The National Gallery of. and Mr. Tate's Collection. Its History. M. H. Spielmann. Mag. of Art, April, 5 pp. Illus. Art, The Festal Development of. Pres. David J. Hill. Pop. Sc., April, 15 pp. Art, The Progress of, in New York. George Parsons Lathrop. Harper's, April, 12 pp. Autographs (My). J. H. Garnsey. Lit. Northwest, April, 8 pp. Examples of the autographs of distin guished persons. Colored Citizens (Our), Education of. Maud Wilder Goodwin. Pop. Sc., April, 10 pp. Columbian Exposition (the), What the Publicity-Department Did for. W. Iglehart. Lippincott's Mag., April, 6 pp. Uni Columbus in Love. Complete Novel. George Alfred Greek in the English of Modern Science. Prof. F. A. Musicians (Pre-Columbian). J. J. Peatfield. Californian, April, 4 pp. Illus. Historical and descriptive. Napoleon, Portraits of. G. B. Morris. Chaperone, March, 4 pp. Illus. Odyssey (The) in Art. Eugene Parsons, Chautauquan, April, 9 pp. Illus. Descriptive. "Poet (a), The Portrait of," By Jacopa Palma (?), in the National Gallery. W. F. Dickes. Mag. of Art, April, 6 pp. Illus. This picture has caused much discussion. Ryman's Poems, Readings in. Albert S. Cook, Mod. Language Notes, March, 11⁄2 pp. Spanish Drama. The Sentiment of Humor in Calderon's Theatre. A. W. Herdler. Mod. Language Notes, March, 31⁄2 pp. Spanish Drama (The)-Miguel Sanchez, “El Divino." Hugo A. Rennert. Mod. Language Notes, March, 7 pp. University of Chicago. Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen. 9 pp. World's Fair (the), Eccentric Features of. John C. Eastman. Chautauquan, April, 21⁄2 pp. POLITICAL. Ballot-Reform. Richard H. McDonald, Jr. Californian, April, 3% pp. Various plans for ballot-reform. Democracy and City Government. Edwin A. Curley. Cosmop., April, 7 pp. Hawaii, The Late Revolution in. Californian, April, 9 pp. With Map. Descriptive. Hawaiian Annexation (the), The History of. James O'Meara. Californian, April, 5 pp. Hawaiian Islands (the), Our Commercial Relations with. F. R. Clow. Jour. Polit. Economy, March, 4 PP. Silver-Coinage, Shall We Have? Ex-Gov. Lionel L. Sheldon. Californian, April, 7 pp. In favor of free coinage. Silver, Free Coinage of. Francis A. Walker. Jour. Polit. Economy, March, 15% pp. General discussion of the question. Against free coinage. RELIGIOUS. Christianity, Divinity of, Seen by Its Effects. The Rev. J. H. Potter. Christian Thought. April, 6 pp. Druidism. The Rev. A. H. McKinney, Ph.D. Christian Thought, April. 13 pp. Historical of Druidism as a religion. Gospel (The Fourth): An Outline for the Study of Its Irreligious Tendencies of Our Institutions of Learn- Negro (the), Religious Characteristics of. W. H. Old Testament (the), Why Use? E. C. Ray, D.D. Christian Thought, April, 7 pp. Protestant Missionary Efforts and We! The Rev. J. R. Slattery. Amer. Eccles. Rev., April, 5 pp. Presents a contrast not favorable to the Roman Catholic Church. Quaker-Spiritualist Revival in Russia. A Report on Neo-Stundism. By a Russian Persecutor. Rev. of Revs., London, March, 4 pp. Sister (a) of Charity, The Life of. James, Cardinal Gibbons. Ladies' Home Jour., April. Spies (the), The Story of: A Study in Biblical Criticism. Prof. P. A. Nordell, D.D. Biblical World, March, 16 pp. Theological Instruction in Switzerland. II.-Zurich. The Rev. P. W. Snyder. Biblical World, March, 5 pp. Toleration, A Plea for. The Rev. W. I. Shaw, LL.D. Meth. Mag., Toronto, April, to pp. Liquor-Traffic (the), The Pulpit and. C. H. Payne. D.D., LL.D. Christian Thought, April, 9 pp. This paper demands a united Church against a united Liquor-traffic. Regency (the), The Women of. L. D. Ventura. Lit. Northwest, April, 41⁄2 PP. Reform Within the Limits of Existing Law. W. M. Salter. Int. Jour. Ethics, April, 15 pp. Self-Development and Self-Surrender. Mrs. Sophie Discusses Bryant. Int. Jour. Ethics, April, 15 pp. self-development as an end of conduct, and selfsurrender as a necessary means to the realization of that end. Shanghai Pilgrimage (A). Alethe L. Craig. Chautauquan, April, 5 pp. Illus. Descriptive of life in Shanghai. Taxation, the Current System of, Some Evils in. Prof. R. S. Colwell, D.D. Denison Quar., April, 6 pp. Washington Society. II. Intimate. Henry Louis Nelson. Harper's, April, 9 pp. Illus. Social Life in the more exclusive sets of the Capital. UNCLASSIFIED. Assegai and Shield. Fred W. D'Evelyn, M.D. Californian, April, 17 pp. Illus. Warfare in Zulu Land. Bimetallism, The Compensatory Theory of. Robert F. Hoxie. Jour. Polit. Economy, March, 4 PP. Brooklyn, The City of. Julian Ralph. Harper's, April, 16 pp. Illus. Descriptive. Buffalo (the), The Story of. Hamlin Russell, Harper's, April, 5 pp. Descriptive of the habits of the buffalo, etc. SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY. Cholera-Outlook in '93. Albert Schneider, M. D. Carnival (The) of Southern Europe. F. A. WilderLit. Northwest, April, 4 pp. Electricity, Annie L. Y. Orff. Chaperone, March, 14 pp. Illus. How it is obtained, practical applications, etc. Imagination, The Government of. Prof. M. J. Cramer, Omega: The Last Days of the World. Camille Flammarion. Cosmop., April, 23 pp. Illus. Treats of the possibility of the destruction of the world by contact with planets, comets, etc. Palestine, Excavation in, The Present and Possibilities of. Charles F. Kent, Ph.D. Biblical World, March, 5% pp. Palestine, Recent Discoveries in. Abbé Vigouroux. Science and the Colleges. Pres. David Starr Jordan. SOCIOLOGICAL. Chinatown, San Francisco. Chaperone, April, 8% pp. Illus. Descriptive. Crisis of 1890. Max Wirth. Jour. Polit. Economy, March, 21 pp. Causes of the crisis of 1890, which convulsed the money-markets of London and Berlin. Duelling among German Students. A. A. Macdonald. Dominion Illus. Monthly, Montreal, March, 6 pp., Illus. Descriptive. Economies at Berlin and Vienna. H. R. Seager. Ethics and Economics, The Relation Between. J. S. Edward W. Bemis. Farmer (the), Discontent of. Jour. Polit. Economy, March, 20% pp. After a general discussion of the question the writer concludes "that much of the relative decline in farm-population and farm-wealth is an inevitable accompaniment of advancing prices and social well-being.' Freedom; Its Relation to the Proof of Determinism. Sidney E. Mezes. Int. Jour. Ethics, April, 16 pp. This paper is an attempt to prove the reality of human freedom. muth. Chaperone, March, 4 pp. Illus. Descriptive. Cotton-Manufactures of New England. Edward Stanwood. Chautauquan, April, 4 pp. Czar (the), In the Barracks of. Poultney Bigelow. Harper's, April, 15 pp. Illus. Descriptive of Russian military life. Figure-Heads (Historic). Robert G. Denig, U.S.N. Cosmop., April, 7% pp. Illus. Descriptive of his toric figure-heads of ships. Domin Fire-Brigade (The Montreal), W. S. Smith. ion Illus. Monthly, Montreal, March, 6 pp. Illus. Descriptive.. Hawaiian Islands (The). Arthur A. Black. Chautauquan, April, 6 pp. Historical and descriptive. Hawaiians (The Ancient). E. E. Carey. Californian, April, 13 pp. Illus. Historical and descriptive. Hockey in Ontario. W. H. A. Kerr. Dominion Illus. Monthly, Montreal, March, 6 pp. Illus. Descriptive. Inaugurations and Coronations. F. S. Daniel. Cos- Marquesas Archipelago (The), and Deep-Sea Sound- New York. Edmund Clarence Stedman. St. Nicholas, Phosphate-Boom (The Great Florida). A. Allen. Prussia, Railway-Policy of. Gustav Cohn. Jour. Tests (Practical) in Evidence. V. Diagrams and Waterloo, The Battle of, A Contemporary Letter on.. Communicated by Her Grace the Duchess of Leeds. XIX Cent., London, March, 6 pp. The letter is dated July 3, 1815, and was evidently written y Sir Felton Hervey, aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington, GERMAN. BIOGRAPHICAL. Anna Amalia of Weimar. Ludwig Geiger. Die sketch. Homberger (Heinrich). Hermann Grimm. Rundschau, Berlin, March, 2 pp. Joseph Braun Spinoza Benedict (Baruch), 1632 to 1677. Strauss. Westermann's Monats-Hefte, schweig, March, 12 pp. Nord und Süd, BresSullivan (Arthur). Emil Bohn. lau, March, 6 pp. Biographical sketch of the wellknown English composer. Wagner (Richard), In Commemoration of. Richard Wolfgang. Die Nation, Berlin, March, 1 p. EDUCATION, LITERATURE, AND ART. Berlin, Musical Life in. Carl Krebs. Deutsche Rundschau, Berlin, Feb., 9 PP. "Double 1" (The) in Recent French Literature. Edmond Roisset. Nord und Süd, Breslau, March, 12 PP. "Double moi" corresponding to the English "double ego. 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Eli Saulsbury, ex-United States Senator dies at his home in Delaware......A successful test of armor-plate for the warship Texas takes place at Bethlehem, Penn. The State funeral of Jules Ferry, late President of the French Senate, takes place at the Luxembourg in Paris......Rector Ahlward's charges of corruption against Bismarck and other German officials are declared groundless by the investigating committee; an exciting debate follows the report......The Italian Government introduces Bills providing for the reorganization of banks of issue.... .....The Oxford crew wins the University boat-race on the Thames by two and one-half lengths, in 18:47, the fastest time on record. Thursday, March 23. The Senate confirms seven Presidential appointments, among which are Theodore Runyon, Minister to Germany; Edward B. Whitney, Assistant Attorney-General, and Ernest P. Baldwin, First Auditor of the Treasury......The Republicans in caucus determine to oppose reorganization of the Senate. ......Governor Flower signs the Webster Croton Watershed Bill and the World's Fair Appropriation Bill......A hearing is given in Albany on the AntiPoolroom Bills......A terrible tornado sweeps the Mississippi Valley; several towns reported destroyed. ..At the investigation of the State Insane Asylum, Poughkeepsie, ex-Assemblyman Mase, one of the managers, admits extravagance, but says there has been no dishonesty...... The taking of evidence in the case of the Lake Shore engineers, who refused to handle Ann Arbor cars, is closed at Toledo...... News is received of the gallant rescue in a storm at sea of the crews of two disabled schooners by the crews of the American steamer Pennsylvania and the British steamer Borderer, respectively....... Carlyle W. Harris, sentenced to death for the murder of Helen Potts, is taken to Sing Sing. In the French Chamber, on a motion favoring dissolution, the Government is sustained, 314 to 200. The Court of Arbitration on the Bering Sea disputes holds its first session in Paris... M. Challemel-Lacour is elected a member of the French Academy, succeeding Ernest Renan...... .The Allan Line Steamer Pomeranian puts into Halifax with a broken piston-rod, the steamer Belgenland having refused to tow her to port. Friday, March 24. Later intelligence shows that the damage done by the Mississippi Valley tornado was very great; several lives were lost, and in Kelly, Miss., 500 persons are homeless; the tornado also caused much damage in Indiana..... It is announced that Sir Julian Pauncefote's rank will be raised from Minister to Ambassador......The Saxton Anti-Poolroom Bill is made a special order for Wednesday in the New York Senate......In New York City, Colonel Elliott F. Shepard, editor and proprietor of the Mail and Express, dies suddenly at his home from the effects of ether administered preliminarily to a medical examination. ...The Aldine Club gives a dinner in honor of Thomas Bailey Aldrich. An earthquake in Colombia causes loss of life and considerable destruction of property......The Lancashire cotton-spinners and their operatives reach an agreement by which work will be resumed on Monday... ......The Duke of Bedford dies of heart disease. ......Details are given of the suicide at Monte Carlo of the Americans, Weill and Robb......Ernest Carnot, son of the President of France, denounces as false the published statement that he had received Panama money. Saturday, March 25. It is announced that the French Minister at Washington will be raised to the rank of Ambassador. The Governor of Arkansas issues a requisition for Frank Hickey, a prisoner in Butte, Mont., accused of being the assassin John M. Clayton... Judge Billings, at New Orleans, decides that the ordering of the big strike in that city in November was unlawful......Governor Flower signs the Bill for State care of the insane......The presidents of the Chicago roads meet and agree on World's Fair rates. ......In New York City, a testimonial dinner is given to Daniel H. Burnliam, Director of Works at the World's Fair......German Immigrants on La Touraine, from Havre, are subjected to rigid inspection, and their baggage is fumigated......The first anniversary reception of the the Students' Movement is held......A lockout of clothing-cutters is begun......Colonel Weber, Commissioner of Immigration, having resigned, receives notice to turn over the office to Gen. O'Beirne, Assistant Commissioner. Minister Durham reports a decisive battle in Hayti, and that the insurgent troops have crossed the frontier......King Humbert narrowly escapes a stone thrown at him by a religious fanatic in Rome, who is arrested......Herr Brandes, the German correspondent who stated that Ernest Carnot had received Panama money, is expelled from France......Rector Ahlwardt continues to make charges of corruption against German officials. Sunday, March 26. The cruiser New York returns to Cramp's shipyard, having proved herself the fastest armored vessel afloat......It is said, that "Mike" McDonald, the noted gambler, is to manage Carter H. Harrison's campaign for Mayor of Chicago......It is said that sixty-seven Chinese were illegally landed at Portland, Oregon, from the steamer Haytien Republic......In New York City, a mass-meeting of rejoicing over Mr. Gladstone's Home-Rule measure is held. The Paris police capture the Anarchist Mathien, supposed to have acted with Ravachol in the dynamite explosions......The International Socialist Congress is appointed to be held in Zurich in August..... King Humbert's assailant is pronounced insane. Monday, March 27. The Senate receives from the President the nomination of S. E. Morss, of Indiana, to be Consul-General at Paris, and the following Consuls; George F. Parker, Birmingham; G. W. Chancellor, Havre; Allan B. Morse, Glasgow; also William H. Seaman, to be United States District Judge, and others; the nominations of John E. Risley and others are confirmed...... The supplemental Croton Watershed Bill prepared by the Academy of Medicine is introduced in the New York Senate......A reception and dinner are given to ex-Senator Dawes in Boston. Mr. Balfour's motion for a vote of censure of the Government is defeated in the House of Commons by a majority of forty seven.... M. 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