we really think them the ne plus ultra of ego- but happily most of them are better. A more impressive. The adorable memory of Arthur ism, egomania even. Mr. William E. Davenport's Poetical Sermons [G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.50] contain many very respectable but not very novel ideas expressed in Whitmanesque verse. We quote from "Christian Riches:" And now I require not (as once I required) the inspiration of works of art. Murillo's Madonnas are mine, and Lorraine's landscapes are mine, and mine are Albert Durer's wood-cuts, and mine Rossetti's portraits and Jan Van Eyck's fair "Paradise of God." unsatisfactory representation of that famous landmark and its surroundings could hardly be imagined. The leading place in the number is assigned to a paper by Police Commissioner Andrews of New York, descriptive of the "Police Control of a Great Election" in that city. Harper's continues, with a second installment, Miss Allen's account of Stuttgart, having a large assortment of pictures after drawings by Joseph Pennell, relating to the modern city, many of whose lines and much of whose ornamentation are graceful and pleasing. There is a beginning of a posthumous paper by Du Maurier, reviewing that chapter of English "Social Satire" in which his hand and Leech's played such conspicuous parts. The plans for a canal through the Central American Isthmus are No! I guess that God will always be obeyed, whatever discussed by the Hon. David Turpie, with spe Nor nature's gracious and impressive shows, so helpful once, I need. From one other "sermon," called "Disobedience?" we must quote: Did you ever hear folks say that they had disobeyed God? And did it never occur to you that he must have been a wonderfully smart man-an equal of God himself -who could have done that? * our intentions or realizations are. We take back our first dictum; whatever the other poems are, we consider this poem decidedly original! Songs of Liberty and Other Poems, a small, daintily-bound volume of poetry by Robert Underwood Johnson, is of various intent. A stately apostrophe to Greece opens the book, which is followed by reflective poems and stirring paraphrases from the Servian, while a long poem on Webster completes the themes. Melody and correct versification abound, united to genuine feeling. [The Century Co. $1.00.] MAGAZINES AND REVIEWS. The February magazines are here, but, as if there must be a reaction after the holidays and the setting out in a new year, they are hardly so brilliant as the two or three preceding numbers. Frank Leslie's opens with a pair of articles on Alaska and the Klondike, profusely illustrated, which it is to be hoped will deter as many adventurers as they will attract. This monthly is publishing month by month a series of illustrated papers on the "Religious Denominations of America," reaching this month, in Number III, the Methodists. Hugh Clough is revived in a worthy "Sketch " from the hand of Thomas Arnold; the Princess Kropotkin furnishes an exceedingly interesting account of the progress of "The Higher Education of Women in Russia," the outlook for which is on the whole favorable, though it shows the Russian women struggling against tremendous odds; under cover of the question "Is the Liberal Party in Collapse?" the Rev. Dr. J. Guinness Rogers reads the Liberal leaders a number of plain lessons as to a reform of temper and method among themselves; and finally, but by no means incidentally or subordinately, Mr. Holt S. Hallett discusses "The Partition of China" in terms which, to say the least, are startling in their frankness, and with covert if not open recommendations which if carried out would place England perilously near cial attention to the Nicaragua route and little the position of a freebooter. Have we not, by to say of the Panama. "The Duc d'Aumale this recapitulation, justified our encomium at and the Conde Museum" is the title of an illus- the outset? Both the editor and the publishtrated article by Henri Bouchot. "Recent De-ers of the Nineteenth Century are to be congratvelopment of Musical Culture in Chicago" isulated on such a brilliant New Year's number the subject of a paper by George B. Upton. as this. FOREIGN NOTES. - Mr. Gladstone's sketch of Arthur Hallam, published simultaneously in the Youth's Companion of Boston and the London Telegraph, is a striking piece of work, if for no other reason, as the Academy points out, for this: that it is "an old man of eighty-seven setting down luminously and powerfully the praises of a friend who has been sixty-four years in the grave." The paper was written last year. -Dr. Alfred Russell Wallace has been long engaged on a work giving the history of the marvelous scientific progress of the closing century. It will appear under the title of The Wonderful Century. - Mr. Percy Fitzgerald has been lecturing on Charles Dickens and His Literary Friends with the oxy-hydrogen lime-light. In all of the foregoing there is, perhaps, no one piece of writing or illustration that compels attention, as is often the case, but much that is moderately interesting or diverting by turns. The Nineteenth Century for January. Here is an issue of a leading review which for amplitude, variety, and strength of contents may fairly be called foremost, and regarded as a model in its way. It touches very nearly the high-water mark of monthly journalism. It opens with a symposium by four members of Prof. A. H. Sayce's Early History of the the British Parliament, all military men, on Hebrews, just published by Rivingtons, is a "The War Office and Its Sham Army," a se- competent scholar's taking up of a position vere criticism of the present British military against the results of the Higher Criticism, and establishment, and a scathing arraignment of will have to be reckoned with before the Polythe administration of that department. These chrome Bible can be accepted. four papers are followed by two others on adjacent topics, the six presenting a bristling row of arguments touching the existing military situation in England. After this warlike demonstration Sir Algernon West, whose life probably touches at least two past generations, takes the reader to "A Walk Through Deserted London," meaning thereby the London of fifty or sixty years ago, pointing out the human landmarks that have passed away in the interval in a strain of most touching and fascinating personal reminiscence of the great and good of times gone by. The Rev. Dr. Augustus Jessop succeeds with an historical sketch, of the type which none knows better how to produce than he, of "Parish Life in England Before the Great Pillage," a reconstruction of a living organism out of archæological materials buried in libraries and museums, in "rolls" and "records." There follows a study of "The Childhood and School Days of Byron," by Mr. Rowland E. Prothero, The most important contributor to Scribner's a period in the poet's life, thinks Mr. Prothero, is Captain Mahan, who is now in much request when there is evidence that he "had in him from the fame he has achieved by his naval the makings of a fine character." Prof. Michael studies. His theme is "The Naval Campaign Foster next outlines his views as to what should of 1776 on Lake Champlain," and the pictures be the course, the aim, and the spirit of study "At a Technical Institute." Under the title of accompanying are enlivening, with their views of curious old vessels and spirited engagements. "The Prisoners of the Gods " Mr. W. B. Yeats The pictures that go with the continuation of recounts a store of folk-lore and local superstiSenator Lodge's "Story of the Revolution," if tions of the Irish peasantry regarding sundry sampled by that of the Washington Elm at mysterious divinities, all of them most curious, Cambridge, Mass., might be called poor enough; some of them amusing, not a few touching and In the Atlantic Mr. John Jay Chapman is again at the front with a timely article on the New York situation, entitled "The Capture of Government by Commercialism." Professor Münsterberg discusses the dangers of experimental study in psychology. Mr. Higginson, now almost if not quite at the head of American essayists, writes piquantly of the experiences and recollections of his semi-public life. Fiction is strong, as witness the contributions of Mr. Gilbert Parker, Mr. Hopkinson Smith, and Kate Douglas Wiggin, all continued. Mr. John Stephens Durham discussess "The Labor Unions and the Negro," and Mr. Russell Sturgis "The True Education of an Architect." Mr. Austin Dobson and Mr. Edmund Gosse are among the contributors of the words, and Sir Arthur Sullivan is one of the composers of the music, of a new book of madrigals about to appear in honor of Queen Victoria. - There has lately been completed at a quarry in the Tyrol the marble statue of Heine which is to be erected in New York by the admiring compatriots of the German poet, and it is understood to be now on its way from Venice. - Mr. M. H. Spielmann has written a work on the late Sir J. E. Millais, which will be published immediately by Blackwood & Sons. It will contain a chronological list of all the artist's pictures of which traces can be found, a list of such as have been engraved, and many illustrations from the best known works of the late President of the Royal Academy. -The London Academy has "crowned" with the prizes respectively of one hundred guineas and fifty guineas Mr. Stephen Phillips's volume of Poems, and Mr. William Henley's Essay on the Life, Genius, and Achievement of Burns, as the two foremost books of 1897. -Henry Holt & Co. will issue at once new and cheaper uniform editions of Lady Jackson's Old Paris and of her Old Regime. -The Academy says that Mr. Richard Le recently delivered on A National Church, a sub- Toomer Porter, a well-known Episcopal clergyGallienne may make his home in New England.ject which he is the most competent man to man of Charleston, S. C.; Reminiscences of the -The death of Mrs. Cowden Clarke at an handle that could be named; What is Good Old Navy, by Edgar Stanton Maclay; a fifth advanced age recalls the fact that she was so Music? by W. J. Henderson; For Love of volume of the Correspondence of Rufus King, little an egoist that she compressed eighty-two Country, a new novel by Cyrus Townsend leaving one more to follow; The Writings of years of her life's history into a small volume of twenty-six pages. Nor would she have done Brady; and Dr. Benjamin B. Marfield's ad- James Monroe, edited by S. M. Hamilton; The even this much if her publisher and friend had dress on The Significance of the Westminster Cross in Tradition, History, and Art, by the not persuaded her that a memory impressed Standard as a Creed. Rev. William Wood Seymour; Coffee and India with the living personalities of such men as Rubber Culture in Mexico, by Senor Romero; Keats and Lamb, Mendelssohn and Gounod, though unsupported by diaries and letters, could and A History of the Parish of Trinity Church not fail to insure a number of very interested in the City of New York, in three large volumes, readers for her biography. Hence My Long Life, edited by the rector, the Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix. an unaffected narrative which speedily passed the first edition and was taken up by Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co. in the United States. Mrs. Cowden Clarke retained a considerable measure of vigor and zest in life up to the last. Mr. Unwin met her at Lucerne as recently as the autumn of 1897. She had traveled from her residence at Genoa, the Villa Novello, and was holidaying briskly with no marks of infirmity about her. The Villa Novello is now almost untenanted, since Mr. Alfred Novello died survive.-Fisher Unwin. 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