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and reforms are now proposed which shall effect a prompter administration of justice. INTERESTING GLEANINGS. LONDON has 70.000 professional beggars. The second city in size of the British Empire is Cal cutta. STERLING is derived from the name by which the dwellers in eastern Germany were known in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries — they were called Easterlings. The purity not only of their money was very famous, but that of their silver specially so, and coiners and silversmiths were fetched from those parts to improve the quality of English manu facturers. So far back as 1597 two counterfeiters, who sold spurious silver articles bearing a simulated royal lion and the goldsmiths' marks, were sentenced to stand in a pillory at Westminster, with their ears nailed thereto, and with papers above their heads setting forth the nature of the offence for which they were so disgraced. After this degradation they were publicly marched to Cheapside, put in the pillory there, and had each one ear cut off, finally being conducted back to the Fleet Prison and having to pay a fine of ten marks each. It seems that in re cent times the record price for Elizabethan silver was .£70 ios. per ounce. For old articles in this metal the sum usually obtainable ranges from £t, to ¿ per ounce, according to the artistic workman ship displayed on them.

various phases, the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, the Puerto Rican tariff, our situation in the Philippines, the steamship subsidy bill, the Kentucky disorders. Governor Roosevelt's administration in New York, the approaching presidential campaign, and many other timely topics, THE complete novel of the March " NEW LIPPINCOTT " is significantly named •• The Shadow of a Man." It is by E. W. Hornung. who has made a new success with each new story. " The Shadow of a Man " will doubtless win him fresh laurels, for it is compact, clear-cut, and thrilling, with a love romance that runs through it and binds together the threads of romance. The heroine is a daring rider, who discovers an old convict in a maze of the " bush," and this solves a mystery which clears her lover. Seldom has " LIPPINCOTT " put forth a story so fully realizing its promise of a brief complete novel with living interest in every word. This number also has a group of most interesting papers, each bearing upon some up-to-date topic: "Where Washington still Lives " is by Rufus Rock well Wilson, "Two Noble Dames Buried in West minster Abbey " is by the daughter of the Dean of Westminster, Mrs. Murray-Smith; " A Letter to Artists," especially women artists, comes from the authorijative pen of one of the foremost of American women artists, Mrs. Anna Lea Merritt. In briefer form this was read at the Women's Congress in London, last summer.

THE word "God" never appeared in any govern THOUGH " The Biography of a Grizzly " and '• The ment act until the year 1864. lyhen, at the sugges Autobiography of a Quack " have run their course tion of the director of the mint. ex-Governor Pol in the CENTURY, Dr. Weir Mitchell and Ernest lock, of Pennsylvania, "In God We Trust" was Seton-Thompson are both contributors to the March stamped on the copper two-cent piece. Before that number of that magazine. Mr. Seton-Thompson be time " E Pluribus Unum " had been the motto. gins a study of " The National ' Zoo ' at Washing Strange to relate, " E Pluribus Unum " on coins ton," in which he shows wild animals to be as inter never was authorized by law. esting in captivity as in their natural state of freedom. His text is, of course, fully illustrated. Dr. Mitch ell, in " Dr. North and his Friends," presents the LITERARY NOTES. opening chapters of the most important serial he has THE March issue of THF. INTERNATIONAL written since " Hugh Wynne." It is a novel em MONTHLY (The Macmillan Company) contains an bodying the results of a long life of observation, re article by W. W. Ireland on " Degeneration, A flection, and experience. A study of Robert Herrick, Study in Anthropology; " Prof. Patrick Geddes by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, sketches the poet's life, writes on " John Ruskin, as Economist; " Prof. W. and claims for him a unique position in English P. Trent writes on " Some Recent Balzac Litera literature as •• a great little poet." The life of the ture." There also is an article on " Henry Irving" laboring class is the special theme of Richard Whit by Clement Scott, and one on the " Southern Ques ing's Paris article this month, the title being " Paris of the Faubourgs;" and Castaigne's pictures throw tion " by E. P. Clark. vivid sidelights on the subject. Frederick A. Cook, THF. AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REVIEWS continuing his account of the Bélgica Antartic Ex for March discusses the war in South Africa in its pedition, writes of '• The Giant Indians of Tierra