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A portrait of John Vance Cheney, forms the frontispiece of the February Current Literature. This is by way of illustrating the article on Mr. Cheney and his work, which is provided by F. M. Hopkins as his monthly contribution to the " Ameri can Poets of To-day" series. Among other good things in the number are an article on the late Alphonse Daudet, "The Death of the Dauphin": spirited readings from Sienkiewicz's latest novel, "Hania," and from Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett's "His Grace of Osmonde"; and a compilation of clever thrusts at the sterner sex entitled " Men in Epigram."
The complete novel in the February issue of Lipptncott's is "A Trooper Galahad," by Captain Charles King. " His Last Appearance," by Jean Wright, and " A Literary Success," by Willis Irwin, are very brief tales. " Outwitting a Grizzly " is one of William Thomson's true stories of western adven ture in old times. R. G. Robinson, who is an au thority on his chosen subject, supplies some informa tion upon Florida, " The Land of the Winter Cucum ber." Fakirs, adventurers, and swindlers of various kinds are the theme of Dora E. W. Spratt, in " How They Live on Nothing a Year."
ger of Experimental Psychology," by Prof. Hugo Munsterberg, of Harvard University. " A Ghetto Wedding," is a touching and characteristic sketch of Jewish life in New York by Abraham Cahan.
The first popular account of the machinery of an election is described in Scribner's Magazine for February by Police Commissioner Avery D. Andrews, in an article entitled " The Police Control of a Great Election." Other interesting articles are " The Naval Campaign of 1776 on Lake Champlain " by Captain Malum and a brief appreciative sketch of Wilton Lockwood, the young American portrait painter, by T. R. Sullivan. There is the usual amount of good fiction in this number.
Dr. Nansen discusses in the February McClure's the future of exploration in the direction of the North Pole. The article is illustrated with numerous pic tures of people and scenes of the far north drawn or photographed from life, some of them by Dr. Nansen himself. This number also contains the best story by Stephen Crane that we have seen. There is a charm ing humorous Irish story by Shan Bullock and Mr. Herbert E. Hamblen's record of his own real experi ence in " Firing a Locomotive."
NEW LAW-BOOKS. The first authorized American publication of Her bert Spencer's reply to Huxley's famous Romanes Lecture, which was originally published in the Lon don Alhenaum appears in Appleton's Popular Science Monthly for February, under the title "Evolutionary Ethics." Professor Henry Lincoln Clapp will have an interesting illustrated article on School Gardens; the important question of the Pre servation of our Forests is discussed by Charles D. Walcott.
A noteworthy article upon "The Capture of Government by Commercialism," by John Jay Chap man, opens the February Atlantic. In " The Labor Unions and the Negro," John Stephens Durham, brings to notice the manner in which the trades unions of this country, by excluding colored workmen from their memberships, have gradually succeeded in driv ing the negro from nearly all skilled occupations. "The Proper Education of an Architect" by Russell Sturgis, points out that little or no advance has been made for many years in architectural training, and gives valuable suggestions. There is also a strong paper on an unusual but useful topic, " The Dan
Engineering and Architectural Jurisprudence. A presentation of the Law of Construction for Engineers, Architects, Contractors, Builders, Public Officers and Attorneys at law. By John Capen Wait, M. S. E., LL.B. John Wiley & Son, New York, 1898. Cloth, $6.00. Sheep, $6.50. This work is the outcome of a series of lectures delivered by the author at Harvard University, and covers a branch of the law upon which we have here tofore had no satisfactory text-book. That the treatise supplies a long-felt want there can be no doubt, and it should be heartily welcomed by both lawyers and layman. In its preparation the author has sought to apply an excellent training in the law to a large, practical, and technical experience in engi neering and construction work, and in doing this he has taken special pains to make the treatise clear and comprehensible to laymen, who are not versed in law. Throughout the book the principles and applica tion of the law are illustrated by examples which have occurred in construction work and which may- arise any day in the experience of every engineer, archi tect, contractor, builder, or owner who is engaged in
