Show Ims The Tho current currant number ot of the Youths Companion Is dated for tor birthday and Its most artistic n a ot of Washington and Mary Curtis In the garden at Mount Vernon and one oho also ot or the old colonIal hone home while the opening star story Is a tale ot of patriotism recounting the pathetic love and arni for country of oC It a high bo boy whom Ills his fashionable mother sacrifices at the altar ot of no ac accent cent In a foreign country A number of other most interesting articles In eluding tales tale of adventure etc make makeup up the readable number Th The number of the Atlantic Monthly will be made mallo noteworthy by II a ot of Important political papers paper Ono ot of these thelt will wili bt be an article by ex e Secretary OIne Olney on The Tho J o of Our Pollo Pollay and all It will b be no b by henry Nelsons Article on the political outlook A Astory story b by Will layne Inne Pity III he be included In the fiction ot of thin In March number numb r ot of the tho Amen Amerl can call which will its third volume wiil appear u tap on t hI Den n or at Israel Maine MIM prophet is II th 1111 ot of tile the United States are Ih trl f or of Manu Manes Mh ash and aud that Ute the are arC the tribe ot of and he h has built a temple near with ad 1111 towo nil the once and the tho l I solution uC of the problem lam lem are set In this article which wilt will be from photographs Tie Vest and CertIn Literary covene or how Mn May be Stranger Stroner titan Ihan Truth Is II the title ot of an appearing In the February Oem Cen run tur It Is pot lIot the record ot of 1 anew hew discovery ot of the transmission region by an the assertion Present ot the West b by a young Ho author ot of The ot of the The CritIc for Cor February has some orne nt af tides Urles ot of local Inter interest 1 In addition to the general ot of tim cur current rent number or of this literary and critical monthly I haries arlell W Ches Chesnutt null nutt the Cleveland Cleeland author who Is mak making ing for himself a name In A Plea for the American II Ne Na Negro gro In prefacing which the editors of th the Critic nay Mr Ir h nult Is III larl lanly well equipped C I the writing of ofIr Mr Ir bok AS a by y birth he belongs belong In hi part to 10 the race ot of which It treats and by In p pedagogy und and law ho he brings sympathy and ine to bear upon the subject t It ItIs Iti Is i that he Is II now delivering lee turee turea on the tite negro problem throughout the country Clara Morris or of Cleveland birth and groWth and whose whole beginnings In stage lire life were mall mal In the old Acad cad cray of MusiC under John baa haB n a second Cond ot of her Interesting Notes rolS FAith Edith M Thomas the poet poel whose gIrl gIrlhood girlhood hood anti and young oung womanhood were spent on the West Western n shore ot of Lake ErIe and early Poems were pub In Cleveland and there attention which led to her and her removal to the east caRt a paper on and other hooks books ot of verse enl MisS Jeanette Jennette L I Gilder editor ot of the Critic rille has boa two I papers on writers and hook books one d de devoted I voted to the recently de deceased Ellen Imen a poet ot of the people and the other on Two Notable Women apropos ot of the recently pub of Kate Field and the s of at Julia Julin Ward howe In th the February whIch Is 18 an excellent number In nil all respects Prot Frederick M I Warren Warrell of at Western university hn has an illustrated Paper on The Suburbs o of Paris In the thil series A He Journey Journe Through France It is JI full ot of Information de and historical This Thill num number r roC of oC the also ulso contains an explanation ot of n a new feature that h has s been Introduced In In an to see so cure ord throwIng light on family migration as aR an important constituent In the makIng ot of the nation Blanks are aro to be filled In b by those re IC receiving them direct or through the ad advertising d pages ot of the the thus thu obtained will be highlY valuable materials for tor history enabling the currents of at mIgration to be traced trace The March number will corn com the first ot of the nuan since Its transfer to Cleveland and evolution from 11 its old term orm and character Into a handsome magazine t has been a radical change with prosperous The little volume recently pub published 1 containing Frederic 1 ly Torrence verses orl concerning The house ot of n a hundred Lights has been made b bIta by its Ita green and gold covers and gOlden In Inn n r cover coer and b by Ita ph pity As An for the verso verses themselves they have no little merit although tar far from being perfect Mr Torrence line has cI dently been a reader reador of at Fitzgeralds version ot of Omar Oman and In his subtitle he calls his own oln verses friles n a p alm ot of experience after a couplet ot of Bidoni The round hundreds hundred of may be Judged b by the first three and the last three On the ponds race face the pelting rain Made bubbles and the they broke again And reappeared anti disappeared And Ohl Oh I knew were men menThe menThe The wise mn men sa MY I lt lit not worth worthA A barleycorn when nil all Is done Well not till III try tr The granary behind the sun Doubt everything the Id When 1 Iwas was parched drought Said he Trust m me e these UleM things have utter faith In doubt daub doubtS S d I a S Of nil all the langu OC earth In which the human humin kind confer The Master II h T r rIt It I is the tue Great Ian life lite it Uk like e title that weaves The see lea within its dully web It swells ells and grows grow a the h evenIng ebb bb ebbIn I In till this rough field of early lire life I 1 have reaped cause for teats enough Yet after afler all think I Ire My I modicum ot of lAughing Stuff Sturt The Picture ook of at Becky eck Sharp Is Isn isa n a summary ot of the dramatization n ot of l Pair with reproductions fir if of at Minnie Mad Maddern dern FI Fiske kp and the other actors and actresses who made the pia play so 50 great 1 a success In Ne New York a ork Tho Iho pictures ot of characters and scenes will give I ati one onea I a vivid Id idea ot of the pIn play which Is lull tull or of dramatic force foree There ts in 1 a tint uil tull page picture ot of Mrs Fiske wh is mc ac to hn have done her b best st act ael lag In the tho role ot of the brilliant versatile heartless Deck Becky h 1 e II its Oth while carrel Catel too scent steadily tu to maintain Its III itt At the Age or of SO 80 Mr Ir spencer although en an Invalid hey hen completed th revision ot of bin hll Principles o of Biology and the final edition In two h he just been published 11 Mi Ireland the Ibe author ot of which Ireal dt dent hu has Just pral praIsed d 10 0 has written I a little olun on the struggles In Bouth Africa whIch I Ito Ii to be called lb Conflict on met metTo To have and to Hold the stirring novel ut of the Jamestown by Mary Johnston whose bOle Prisoners ot of hop won on praise pralle from the critics and such uch wide ide attention from Crom the r public wilt will bf be pub pal In the Ut middle of February The story h baa appeared serially In The At t Monthly and lit Ia the first three month of oC it greatly In III Increased creased the I ol of the over oer the same me period ot of tile the J year yearA ar arA A forthcoming volume wilt III be welcomed b by inclined general Inual reader U well u as by philanthropic Workers II Rita Ten Years sr No o one among those thOle who battled with the has won greater respect for tor hi hie sincerity or greater regard for hi his of the Mr lUlL Bits Among monr III constantly class ot of those thOM who art are of oC the alum problem or actual workers In It the publication ot of the Tn Ten Years War will 11 be awaited with interest An of the excellency charar ot of this home magazine the Young Youn Women Journal for danh the attention ot of alt all the ladies Tile The frontispiece a 11 lt reproduction of lets Angelus I is accompanied h 11 1 A most pleasingly Informative on title POPular artist and his paintings n fly mean ot of delicate ate imagery Dr Tal Talma ma nag In Pleasure happiness vividly and contrasts Iho emotions In theIr effects on l 1 c ler In a is 18 depicted front Cron po experience by Jary ry II IC Kelly the A Apostle In style Itle is II very agreeable anti in III con content tint It I ii made tI tire by the graceful ful and pretty illustrations 0 of Chistine D Young Youn the article on Prawn Work to 10 the most mOlt practical all as well I If to the woman other features ot of I In this noon num number her ber are tho thA narratives God Move 10 In ina 1 a Mysterious Way and A Lend ot of the Cross |