Show MAGAZINES The Century for March is called an Inaugural number It has two pictures pic-tures of Presidentelect McKinley taken specially for the Century The frontispiece which is a side view might easily be taken for a picture of Webster The other shows the presi dentelect seated at his desk in his home In Canton There is another picture pic-ture of President Cleveland at his desk in the White House The leading article II ar-ticle is Our FellowCitizen of the White House It tells of the official cares of a president of the United States The article is very Interesting and well Illustrated The Illustrations themselves tell an interesting story The congressional library is described by Librarian Spofford It is a very interesting article and Is fully illustrated Illus-trated How beautiful the library IS from every point of view It Is a triumph tri-umph of art and utility General Horace Porter continues his articles on Campaigning with Grant The present one has to do with events from North Anna to Cold Harbor In an interesting and able article Hfhieb is fully Illustrated I Il-lustrated Captain T A Mahan describes de-scribes the battle of Trafalgar and the death ol Nelson A very appreciative 2f Ii 1i and timely article is Mr George lies I The Art of Large Giving The Century Cen-tury Magazine is always Interesting and entertaining but rarely has the present number been surpassed It is excellent throughout The Century company Union Square New York Price 35 cents Scribners Magazine for March leads off with an article by Richard Harding Davis describing the bandarium of Hungary or the millennial celebration at Budapest where the nobles of all the countries of Hungary met last year to swear allegiance to the king and his crown The Interest is keen from start to finish while the illustrations are beautiful and numerous Elizabeth Robbins Pennell tells of The Master of the Lithograph J McNeill Whistler Whist-ler The illustrations are beautiful William Dean Howells begins The Story of a Play which promises to be very interesting The third in the series se-ries of articles on the condupt of great businesses tells The Business of a Factory Fac-tory Like the preceding articles in the same series it is Illustrated Harding Davis Soldiers of Fortune Is continued con-tinued Lewis Mprrls Iddings The Art of Travel Is very entertaining So also Is C D Gibsons second paper on London The present one deals with London audiences The whole number is Interesting Charles Scribners Sons New York Price 25 cents Littels Living Age No 2747 like all the other numbers of this excellent magazine of foreign literature is good l in every particular It starts off with Henrq K Sienkieziczs Life Secret a Roman story of the earliest Christian times A Visit to Andorra tells of the Pyrennean republic the ancient Transvaal of the Pyrenees Lady Enrlty Lawless The Ethics of 1ltera ary Forgery will be found charming The Romantic Side of Montaigne gives a new view of the greatest of all the essayists Any one interested in the doings of royalty and most people peo-ple are will find much to interest them in the article Where the Queen Wor ships Whoever would keep In touch with foreign literary matters can do no better than through the pages of the Living Age The Living Age company 133 Brom field street Boston |