Show LITERATURE LADIES HOME JOURNAL A unique experiment will be tried in the February issue of tha Ladies Home Journal The entire number has been contributed in prose fiction and verse by the daughters of famous parentage as a proof that genius is often inherited The work of thirty of these daughters will be represented These will comprise the daughters of Thackeray Hawthorne Dickens James Fenimoro Cooper Horace Greeley Mr Gladstone President Harrison William Dean Howells Senator IngaUs Dean Bradley of Westminster Julia Ward Howe General Sherman jefferson Davis and nearly a score of others Each article poem or story printed in this number has been especially written for it and tho whole promises to be a successful result of an idea never before attempted in a magazine maga-zine THE COSMOPOLITAN The announcement that Mr Howells will leave Harpers Magazine to take editorial edi-torial charge of the Cosmopolitan on March 1 calls attention to the process of building up the staff of a great magazine Probably in no monthly has the evolution been so dijtinctly under the eyes of the public as in the case of the Cosmopolitan The first step after its editorial control was assumed by Mr John Brisben Walker was to add to it Edward Everelt Hale who took charge of a department called Social Problems subject concerning which the greatest number of people are thinking today Some months later a department was established called The Review of Current events TO taKo charge of this a man was needed who should be familiar not only with the great events of the past thirty years but who knew personally tho leading men of both the United States and Europe who could interpret motives and policies Murat Halstead accepted this position with the distinct understanding that nis monthly review should be philosophical and never partisan The next step in the history of the Cosmopolitan was the placing of the review re-view of the intellectual movement of the month in the hands of Mr Brander Matthews who for some time has been recognized as one of the two or three ablest critics in the United States Finally came the acceptance of the editorship conjointly con-jointly with Mr Walker by Mr William Dean Howells His entire services will be given to the Cosmopolitan and everything he writes will appear in that magazine during the continuance of his editorship REVIEW OF REVIEWS The Review of Reviews for January contains con-tains the portraits of some fifty or sixty of the notabilities of the day General Johnston I John-ston and Governor Nichols of Louisiana Secretary Foster Assistant Secretary Wharton the late Dom Pedro Fonseca of Brazi Mr Jackson the new Irish secretary secre-tary Mr Redmond Parnellite leader Mr Flavin of Cork Archbishop Walsh of Dublin Prince George of Wales five governors of Australian states the late Lord Lytton the late Rev Oscar McCul loch the late William B Florence Governor Gov-ernor Alvin P Hovey Senator Plumb Hon S B Elkins Mr Gillam of Judge the Czar and Czarina of Russia with various var bus other Russian portraits Mr Elbndge Gerry of New York Mr Benjamin Waugh of London Mark Twain Froderlo Harrison Thomas Nelson Page the late Mr Velhagen the distinguished German editor and Lord Rosebery the rising liberal statesman of England are among the people whose faces are presented in this number ILLUSTRATED AMERICAN The Illustrated American says in speaking of the disgraced Grand Duke of Russia in an entice which appeared in the January 16 number the following about the Russian court Caballing against ones own Im Sr 2 mediate relations is no new thing amongst the Romanoffs Peter the Great when but a boy of ten years only escaped assassination assassina-tion by the myrmidons of bis half sister the beautiful Princess Sophia through the heroism of his mother Peter himself was instrumental in the poisoning of his eldest son Alexis Peter the Third without with-out doubt caused the death of Ivan An tonovitch the then rightful occupier of the throne of Russia Catherine the tot Great sent her lover Alexis Orloff to poison her own husband Thero is no court in Europe I which the moral tone is lower than that of St Petersburg Tho Czarof whom less Is known than of any potentate in the old worldis on dit a respectable member of society and the Czarina is a I noblehearted honest woman Against the Duchess of Edinburghthe Czars sister no slur has ever been cast except that she does not love her husbands countrymen and they do not love her but the Czars brothers his uncles and cousins ara the unces most despisablo royalties in Europe They gamble they drink they steal the family diamonds they drive their mothers to suicide sui-cide t |