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 Rh del Fuego." King Charles's ill-starred reliance on the Scots, after Naseby, and his imprisonment by Parliament, are the topics considered by John Mor ley in his study of Oliver Cromwell. •• Talks with Napoleon," from O'Meara's newly discovered and intimate St. Helena diaries, are continued, the pos sibility of escape being one of the most interesting questions considered. Fiction is furnished by H. B. Fuller, Catharine Young Glen, and Eva Wilder dard, Brodhead; J. V. Cheney, poetry byArlo JohnBates, Burroughs, and others. R. H. Stod-

THE LIVING AGE announces a four-part story, called •• Misunderstandings," translated from the French of Madame Blanc, which begins in the num ber for March 3. The " misunderstandings " re ferred to arise from the free and unconventional conduct of an American girl in Paris, and the story is. in effect, a new •' Daisy Miller " from the Parisian point of view.

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WHAT SHALL WE READ?

The Criminal; his Personnel and Environment, is a scientific study by August Drähms, resident chaplain of the California state prison at San Quen tin, which has just been published by The Macmillan Company, with an introduction by Cesare Lombroso. The author gathers his material from a wide range of both speculative and experimental observation, as the moral instructor of one of the largest institutions of the kind in the world, and the work is replete with data and rich in observations especially valuable to the student of abnormal and sociological and moral phenomena.

Home Nursing is the title of a useful little book on modern scientific methods for the sick room, by Miss Eveleen Harrison, which is just issued by The Macmillan Company. In this little work the simplest methods for hy gienic nursing have been given, including free venti THE frankest as well as the most comprehensive lation, perfect cleanliness, care of the sick room. and statesmanlike view yet published of our foreign fever nursing, the best form of nourishment and policy is that of the Hon. Richard Olney. appearing many other suggestions, which may easily come in the March Atlantic Monthly. It is marked by within the reach of every home, no matter how mod Mr. Olney's power of trenchant and compressed ex est or simple it may be. All technical terms have pression, yet it is also moderate and far-seeing. The been purposely excluded, so that the directions may recent movement among Indiana Democrats to nomi be easily understood by every one, and only the nate Mr. Olney for the Presidency gives additional simplest home remedies have been recommended in interest to this paper. the absence of, or while awaiting the arrival of the family physician. As food plays such an important THE leading article of the March number of Scrib- part in disease, the last few pages have been devoted iier's Magazine is H. J. Whigham's second article to the diet of patients suffering from various ail on the Boer War, this one dealing with the fights ments; and some simple recipes in preparing made by Lord Methuen's division in its progress dainty dishes to tempt the appetite during convalesfrom the Orange river to the Modder river. Mr. Whigham describes three battles, and this is the Lco Dayne, a novel of the common people, by first continued magazine account of that campaign to be published. His own photographs and his own Margaret Augusta Kellogg, has recently been pub maps make perfectly clear to the general reader what lished by James A. West Company, Boston. It is a has heretofore appeared as merely fragments of news lengthy work, of over 500 pages, and while its pub in the daily press. The strategy, as well as the ad lishers prefer to send it out on its own merits, with venture of the campaign, appear clearly in Mr. Whig- out expressing their personal large belief in it as a ham's writings. The third " Cromwell " by Theodore permanent addition to American works of its class, Roosevelt deals with the second Civil War and the still they quote with approval the words of a widely death of the King. Governor Roosevelt makes an known doctor of philosophy, of Cambridge, who interesting comparison between the conditions pre read it carefully in manuscript, and who expresses vailing at the end of the English Civil War and at his '• astonishment and delight in the extraordinary the end of our own Civil War when even the Republi excellence of the whole work," recognizing " its power can part)' was divided. The author also points out how and beauty as a work of art." the religious element entered into everything done by Cromwell. " mixing curiously with his hard com I* his work on Economic Crises, which The mon-sense and practical appreciation of worldly bene Macmillan Company publish, Mr. Edward D. Jones fits." The illustrations are on an elaborate scale, maintains that the individual business concern has and represent some of the very best work of English not developed controlling and directing power in a and of American artists. degree commensurate with the great increase of