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Show THE MAGAZINES. The Overland Monthly for March has nine full-page engravings and frontispieces, all good and timely. "Fish of the Western Sea" Is a fino article, copiously Illustrated, showing some rare specimens. "The OJal Valley" Is a beautiful description. "Teaching "Teach-ing the Filipinos" Is especially good In Its approval of the teaching being In English. "Housekeeping In Mexico" Is well written and Illustrated. "The Northwest Mounted Police" tells again the story of that fino force. "The Mushnllnda Legend" tells of the great dragon Journey from Ceylon to San Francisco, via China. ''Tulc Farming," Farm-ing," one ot tho wonders of California.. Is given good space In text nnd picture.. There Is much good rending In tho number, Including a number of excellent short stories. The Overland Monthly Company, publishers, San Francisco. The Book-Lover for March has for fton tlsplcce a portrait of Edmund Clarence Stedman. The first article Is "The Smithsonian Smith-sonian Institution and James Smlthson," Illustrated, an appreciative review. Two favorite portraitures aro given, delightful both. "Robert Edeson'a Autobiography," with portrait, follows. "The Shepherd's Hour-Glass," third paper, is full of good things. "Robert Burns and His Biographies" Biogra-phies" Is a bibliography, with comment "The Romance of Book-Collecting" Is an excellent paper. "Is a Classical Education of Uso for a Commercial LIfe7" Is a review re-view of the efforts of Mr. Crane to got tho opinions of business men on tho point "The Work and Success of Washington Irving" Is an appreciative paper, written In excellent vein. There are many other meritorious things In prose and poetry, and tho magazine Is most admirable, as always. The Book-Lover Press, New York. The Green Bag for March has a fine sketch, with portrait, of Judge Alton B. Parker. "What the United States Has Done for International Arbitration" S3 a very ablo paper by the Hon. John W. Foster. Fos-ter. "American Law Schools and the Teaching of Law," by Georgo L. Rcln-hard, Rcln-hard, Is a comprehensive and strong review. re-view. "Tho Judicial History of Individual Liberty," third paper, by Van Vcchtcn Voedcr, is a clear and lawyer-llko rovlew of a high subject; It Is Illustrated with portraits of Illustrious English Judges, "Curious Laws of Puritan Boston," "A Police Court of New Erin," "A Pair of Ears," and lcttera from Washington and London aro good features. The editorial department Is ample and strong. Tho Boston Bos-ton Book Company, publishers, Boston. The Popular Magazlno for April has a corrplcto novel, "Wanted, a Highwayman," Highway-man," by William Wallaco Cook; begins a serial, "Beatrice, of Venice," by Max Pem-berton; Pem-berton; and has short stories by Edwin L. Sabln, Charles W. Winter, Fred M. White, Scott Campbell, R. H. Farnham, Louis Joseph Vance, W. Bert Foster, Arthur Ar-thur W. Marchmont, A. Walter Uttllng, Scwnrd W. Hopkins, Frank N. Stratton, Henry narrlson Lewis, and Gcorgo Parsons Par-sons Bradford. It Is a lively, entertaining monthly. Street & Smith, publishers, New York. Records of tho Past for February has a fino view of tho Taj Agra for cover-page. An able Illustrated paper, "Tho Monoliths of Aksum," by Mrs. Mabel V. A. Bent, tolls of splendid ruins In Abyssinia. "When Did the American Mammoth and Mastodon Masto-don Become Extinct?" is a. query by Prof John Ury Lloyd, and ho Inclines to tho belief that It was not beforo tho appcar-anco appcar-anco of the Indian. "The Taj Manal, India," In-dia," by Mrs. J. Ghosol, describes and pictures both that and tho Taj Agra Book rovlcws follow, and tho editorial notes tell of curious thlng3 In many lands, Jtocords of tho Past Exploration Society, publisher's, Washington, D, C. Book Nowe for March has an engraving of Honry narland for looao frontispiece, and It Is well freighted with good literary Topics, considering the main questions, Thcro aro schedules of books timely on the situation In tho Far East, pictures from contemporary magazines, reviews of fiction, fic-tion, and reviews from foreign papers These aro special articles: "Man, the Egoist," "Minor Foots," "Vacslar Brozlk," "Tho Importance of the Portrait In Art." "On Literary Observation," "What to Read," "Books of General Interest," "Best Selling Books," "Book News Biographies." Bio-graphies." "Educational," "Authors' Calendar Cal-endar for March," "Magazines," and "New Books and Now Editions." It Is a comprehensive, compre-hensive, well-made literary monthly. John Wanojnakcr, publisher, Philadelphia. Tho Pilgrim for March has special articles, arti-cles, "Tho Man with the Pick," "Tho Green Corn Scramble," "A Genius and His Brother," "Coming Down In tho World," "Men and Mattere of Moment," and It gives oxccllcnt household Instruction, tho fashions, personal adornment, and has good educational and literary features. The Pilgrim, Battle Creek, Michigan. Alnsleo's Magazine for April woll Justifies Justi-fies Its claim as "tho magazine that entertains," enter-tains," It has a new Lenten cover design, In colors. Its novelette Is "Tho Inn of the Long Year," by S. Carloton, tho story of a young man whOBO world fell about his cars, entailing momentous years of toll, privation, and angulBh. There aro short stories, sketches, and poems In gratifying profusion and merit, by Justus Miles For- man, Caroline Duor, Nixon Watorman, Tom Masson, Ella Wheclor Wilcox, Joseph O. Lincoln, Madeline Bridges, Richard Lo Galllcnne, Reginald Wright Kauffman, James II, Gannon, Jr., Cosmo Hamilton, Kato" Mastcrson, Allco Ducr Miller, Vonlta Sclbcrt, Josephine Dixon,- L, H. Robblns. Sarah Guernsey Bradley, Bcatrlco Hans-corn, Hans-corn, Asnton HUllers, Arthur Stringer, Alfred Al-fred Sutro, Theodore Drelsor, Edgar Sal-tus, Sal-tus, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Elizabeth Knight Tompkins, Charlotte Becker, and Alan Dale, all. skilled experts, and tho general cfTcct of their work la mbst pieas-Ing, pieas-Ing, The Alnslco Magazine Co., New York City. |