Show the coming forum the startling fact is shown by reports ol 01 the massachusetts commis ol 01 prisons laring the laet last fifty years while the po ioa of 0 the state bu bag only trebled the number of 0 criminals baa his inar increased eased fifty old fold there Is one prisoner to every I 1 inhabitants in the state and in L jl T boston 0 one to every inhabitants thia ceu dl lare i R proportion however includes e s r re e commitments these facts facts are interpreted by mr william P andrewa Andl ewo for many any years year clerk of the criminal 1 I 1 I court at a t salem mass blass evidence that the reformatory as conduct of prisons has bag caused an alarming in increase in crease of crime and that the of reformatory for punitive treatment is bringing us to state socialism 8 oci allem through the attractiveness of prison alson life mr andrews will con tribute an article at ticla to the october forum containing the results of many years observation of the working of the two systems the poet has written for the october forum an article riving giving bis his estimate of a number nu in bar of minor english poets an english tribute to lowell by archdeacon farrar is announced for the october number of the forum the october forum will contain an article on ion the prevalence ot of gambling in the united unite states in which an effort is made to calculate the enormous proportions of the business the writer will present muche much e evidence 1 to show that this t we are a nation of gamblers henry labouchere has written for the october forum an article on the english royal family its uses and its cost t |