Show I CURRENT PU3UCVnyH3 I The North Amerienn Review for May j opens with a quadruple consideration of 1 The Situation In the Far EIl5rlhc I Great Siberian Hallway by Al AUKnalloriT with map Japan and RuHsli In the Orient by James Murdoch The Powers I and Partition of China by the Rev Gilbert Reid D D president of the International I In-ternational Institute of China and American Policy in China by the Rt Hon Sir Charles W Dlke1nrt iL P I Why KncManO Should Stop the War I by Jean do Bloch Origin of the Negro I Race by i Sir Henry M Stanley Science and tho Government by Prof Simon Newoomb LL D I The Genesis of Americanism Amer-icanism by J St Clalr Elhcrldge A Neglected American Poet by Montgomery Montgom-ery Schuylerv The Shadowy Waters by W 13 Yeats and comparative papers on the Citizen Soldiers of America and Britain one by Charles Sydney Clark Future of tho National Guard find the other rime British Volunteer System by the lit 1 Jon Earl Erownlow formerly Under Secretary of State for ar310 othor Important lltloi A very great und noblo magazine North American Review New York Trained Motherhood for May gives Two Ways of ChlldStmly Precautions Precau-tions In Childrens Dlsuascs insists that Mothers Should Know Ilwi lr I Children and treats of The National Conprreja ot Mothers H has many helpful things for I tho household and for ihofearo of children chil-dren The Motherhood Company New York < I The mack Cat for May lin3 Us regular Jive stories all firstclass f In style and matter At Tank No 11 I 1 Is the chief then comp The Tarantula David and Golinlh One Chance in a Million and A Deserter Tho Black Cat ranks with tho very best of our fiction publications Tho Shortstory Publishing Co Boston Sports AflcJd for May baa many good hunting stories and has good illustratIons Illustra-tions for them A jolly broesy publication publica-tion Sport A Held Co Chicago Werners Magazine for May Is strong on elocution music and the dramatic art Tl takes up the < r > vailous spbjecla In excellent ex-cellent form and gives good Instruction anti example in them A special feature of this number Visible Speech by Alexander Alex-ander Melville Bell and a study of llenrlk Ibson arc noteworthy The Werner Wer-ner Company New York A History I of Russian Literature By K Wnllflzowskf author of the lifo of Peter the Great One of Iho Short Histories of the I Literature of tho World aeries edited by Edward Gosse Published by D Applcton and Company New York It Is only by comparison with something huge that this 150pngc book can be called short The author Is a most competent writer and he has cone Into the subject with an ardor and thoroughness that I could not be Improved upon Tho divisIons I divis-Ions as The Epic Age The Renaissance Renais-sance The Forging of the Language The Bondage of the West The Transition Tran-sition Period The National Involution Tim Emancipating Movement arc not to bo considered as fixed periods but merely convenient terms lo treat of such literature as might reasonably be treated of under time titles n1 given as a matter of fuct the divisions are hard to oalab lish Mr Wolisucwskl In his preface says that the plan of the work Is I hio own and that his opinions and treatment aro based exclusively on his own repdlngs Ono should therefore confidently expect original l origi-nal work und there can be little doubt that we have such here Ucsldes the different dif-ferent epochs In general we have critical estimates of the leading works and authors au-thors of each and connections traced from ono period to another and contemporary contem-porary authors and their works recolvo treatment especially full and candid as Is proper We do not doubt but that this will be the standard work on Russian literature for a good while to come |