Show BOOKS AND MAGAZINES Besides B the tariff discussion by Rep Representative Hopkins the January Forum contains a a number of interesting articles on ext timely topics After reading over pages JI of legislation in the I states state all of CY It less leas than two years yearn old the Hon Samuel J Barrows of the Inter International International International national Prison commission has bas written an article on New Crimes and Penal Penalties Penalties ties which appears in the current num number number ber her of the Forum It touches touche upon the great number of modern crimes which could not have been committed in ancient days because the instruments for tor their perpetration did not exist Because e they are the outcome of modern civilization I they dley require new legislation Many ab absurd absurd b surd statutes which have been enacted by the of different states stat are 1 also abro noted in this article There is a die dis discussion Ion of German Art of Today an another another S I Iother other upon Chinese Development and andi i its Influence upon the New World a tree trea I I tire tise on Beer r and diplomacy ad ada J a very valuable contribution on the wage w e question by Mr EX EJ E J Smith founder of i the new trade alliance in England recent ly discussed at length n The Herald p 0 i I The Th last installment In of Janice Mere Meredith Meredith appears appeals in the January number of I the tM Bookman Beckman and is to be succeeded the editors announce by a novel of American I lire life Stringtown on the Pike by a new Dew I writer Mr aIr John Johe Uri Un l Lloyd oyd That they I II believe it a work of unusual merit is ii evi m evident en dent from the strong words word of praise in i I Which they make the announcement among them being bein the opinion that this i tale of a Kentucky village dose does all that Mary Wilkins and others have done for a ai I i I narrow circle of American life but it has ha hasa haa a significance and sweep and human in tn I II I which take in the universe by I I touching life nCe at the base Beside Besides the I j regular book reviews there are special ar I tides I on Henri Henn The King of Bo I hernia hemia by the new associate aa te editor tor of the I review Mr air Arthur Bartlett Bart let t Maurice Manrice whose New York in Fiction we doubt i inot inot not will appear ere long Ion in book form t I two papers on Stevenson one on his first tinn book pacers oJ by Mr Luther S Livingston the t theother i iother other on Ms his second s visit t tI to America by I Mr William Henry Duncan jr Great I Newspapers N Jers of oC Continental Europe by Mr Ir Henry W Fisher German Gennan i 1 pers Charlotte Bronte and One of Her i Critics by Dr Robertson Rober on deal i ling lag ing with the only instance In which Char lotte Bronte wrote to an editor about a review of one of her bet books and ordinate by Frank Moore I Colby C b 3 J l 6 S II The January number of oC the North Am American American Review devotes denotes considerable space to the die South African war a as aa did the issue taue for December This month there are five articles presenting the tile views and fore forecasts forecasts forecasts casts of men of various vanous na and as many opinions opinion The management explains that the attention of civilization On is fastened upon that un unequal unequal equal conflict even our own countrymen forgetting their similar controversy for tor the possession of the Philippines No one pays any allY attention to the war any anymore i imore I more It Is lt growing In disfavor but the i interest In the tile outcome of the Transvaal i I trouble is constantly growing This Is the th explanation of the publisher i iler ler G Leveson lAveson Gower Cower of or her ys I I household hous hold recounts the opinions on the I condition on of ot The British Army express expressed expressed ed in a recent conversation by his royal highness the Duke of Cambridge the i cousin of the queen and for many years yean I of the forces of Great Britain Dr W Yo J Leyds Leyda the European i t agent of oC the South African Republic an answers answers a number of at questions relating to toWar I the Origin Duration and Outcome of the War giving a clear Idea idee of the theories I and expectations of the Boers themselves on those these points The Right Honorable Earl arl Grey who was for some time nigh i gh commissioner of Rhodesia discusses tb tM the relations between n England and the Tress Trans Transvaal vaal vast from the British point of view Pro Pre i t e Hans Delbruck of the Berlin Uni I f examines the attitude which the great gr powers of Europe are re likely to as u assume sume mime toward Great Britain at the j i crisis Vladimir and Prince in Great Britain on OD the I War Path voice Ice th the belief of certain I Ii i classes of intelligent Russians that sins Ins war against the Transvaal ie Is to se so ee cure for England the mastery of the tM Med and of tho the KedI Indian ocean oc as a a j means of securing her position in India George Lacey who spent many years yean In business pursuits In the Dutch republics republica in South Africa contributes a paper en titled Some Boer Boor Characteristics in which he draws a graphic picture I of the of the Transvaal showing showing how they live and manner or of people eople they are There are a number of or articles by eminent writers on other ather I iW topics |