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this number; and Theodore Roosevelt begins his monograph on -Oliver Cromwell." which is to be a feature of the magazine for six months. An article of great significance at the present time is Frederick Palmer's view of "White Man and Brown Man in the Philippines." There are short stories by Howard Pyle and Robert Shackleton. whose story is of politi cal life on the East Side in New York, and Eliot Gregory describes the curious saloons (cabarets) frequented by groups of modern French poets.

THE '-NEW LIPPINCOTT " for January-, 1900, be gins the year with a complete novel, full of fresh sensations and amusing episodes, called "The Bread Line." by Albert Bigelow Paine, A significant series of stories on Mormon life, by Mrs. J. K. Hudson, begins in this number with "The Third Wife." The short fiction consists of three extraor dinary stories : " Behind the Lines," by Archibald Willingham Butt : •• The Story ot a Sky-Scraper." by Percie W. Hart, and a charming fairy tale for Christmas, by Evelyn Sharp, entitled " In the Prince's Shoes." Mrs. Crowninshield describes the prog ress of the great Paris Exposition, under the title of "The Paris Fair in Outline." "An English Music Festival," by Thomas Whitney Surette, should ap peal to a wide circle of hearers. Dr. Theodore F. Wolfe, in " A Bookish Corner of New Jersey." talks about such interesting people as the Gilders. Dr. C. C. Abbott, "Clementine," the poetess, Thomas Dunn English, and others. THERE is a new short story by Selma Lagerlöf in Тнк LIVING AGE for January 13. It is called •• Our Lord and Saint Peter."

THE January number of the CENTURY has a Happy New Year cover, designed by Will Bradley and printed in colors. Among the contributors are the Right Hon. John Morley. Dr. S. Weir Mitchell. Rudyard Kipling. Gov. Theodore Roose velt. Booker T. Washington. Ernest Seton Thomp son, Stephen Phillips, and Capt. Joshua Slocum. and the artists represented are Mr. Thompson, Frederic Remington, Joseph Pennell. Edmund Sullivan, Varian, Potthast, and Mary Hallock Foote. to say noth ing of the reproductions of paintings by Sir Thomas Lawrence, Van Dyck, and Cooper. A humorous incident of Capt. Slocum's "single-handed " circum navigation of the globe, was President Kriiger's flat denial of the navigator's statement that he was sailing "around" the world. John M. Oskison's cowboy tale, " Only the Master shall Praise," is re markable not merely as the product of a young man

in whose veins flow a liberal admixture of Indian blood. The first instalment appears of Mrs. Foote's "A Touch of Sun." A short story by Will N. Harben is called " A Filial Impulse.''

THE future of Cuba and Porto Rico, the Philip pine question, financial legislation in the new Con gress. Secretary Root's report, the British reverses in South Africa, and the recent progress of American municipalities, are some of the topics editorially treated in the January REVIEW OF REVIEWS. The subject of the character sketch is Secretary John Hay. who by reason of the death of Vice-Président Hobart becomes the successor apparent to the Presidencv. THE opening chapters of the "Autobiography of W. J. Stillman." which begin the January ATLANTIC. form an exceptionally interesting and frank state ment of his boyhood. Zitkala-Sa writes her " Im pressions of an Indian Childhood:." William DeWitt Hyde discusses •• Reform in Theological Education;" and John J. Chapman voices his creed of political re form in a combination of paradox and satire entitled •• Between Elections." " The Future of the Chinese People" is ably treated by D. Z. Sheffield. R. Brimley Johnson contributes an interesting review of •• England in 1899," from the point of view of a man of letters : and there are short stories by Jack London and Margaret L. Knapp.

WHAT SHALL WE READ?

A little volume entitled Christian Science1 is made up of a series of papers, most of which have already ap peared in the North American Review and the Medi cal Record. Four of them deal with the exposition of Mrs. Eddy's teachings, her own account of herself, and the status of her cult before the law. Another treats of the educational effect and policy of medical legislation, and the last shows how, by enforcement of medical laws not consonant with public opinion, the apothecary in England became a general practi tioner of medicine. The author finds the best proot that the articles originally published in the North American Re^'iew are fair expositions of Mrs. Eddy's life and teachings in the fact that their accuracy has not been denied. The subject is one which is at present exciting almost universal interest; and while Mr. Purrington hits some telling blows, he makes 1 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. An Exposition of Mrs. Eddy's Wonderful Discovery, including its Legal Aspects. A Plea for rington. Children E. B. andTreat other& Helpless Co., NewSick. York, 1900. By William Cloth, A. 5 т .oo. Put-