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The University of Freiburg is not to be undone by the London penny weeklies. To induce stu dents to attend its lectures, it has announced that they will be insured against accidents while with in the University grounds. Not only accidents in the gymnasium, but on the duelling field, if that field be within the precincts of the Univer sity. Also, if while on excursions conducted by the professors they meet with an accident, they come within the insurance rules. Fifteen thou sand marks will be paid to their sorrowing families in case of death. If this is not inducement enough to fill the University of Freiburg to over flowing, nothing can be. It looks as much like a premium on duelling as a bait for students.
of the new Russian war minister contributed to this number by Charles Johnston.
LITERARY NOTES. The first of a series of very important educational articles on " Manual Training," by Prof. C. Hanford Henderson, appears in the June number of Appleton's Popular Science Monthly. Prof. Geo. A. Dorsey describes a recent visit to the picturesque but rapidly decreasing " Indians of Southern Alaska." There are also interesting articles on " Veracity," by Prof. Win. H. Hudson, and " Atavism," by Felix L. Oswald, in this number.
Harper's Magazine for June contains "The Czar's People," by Julian Ralph; " Current Fallacies Upon Naval Subjects," by Captain A. T. Mahan, U. S. N.; The Trolley in Rural Parts," by Sylvester Baxter; "A Studyof a Child," by Louise E. Hogan; "Our Diplo matic Relations with Cuba," by Albert Bushnell Hart, Professor of History at Harvard University; "A Rebel Cipher Despatch," by David Homer Bates; " Wil liam's Moose," by Hamblen Sears; " The Situation in China," by Cathay. The short stories of the number are : " The Spirit of Mahongui," by Frederic Remington; "Miss Maria," by Margaret Deland; "Miss Pettingrew's Question," by Ellen Douglas Deland; "A Woman Who Lost Her Principles," by Louise Betts Edwards; "With Music and White Lights," by Abby S. Maguire, and " Dictated," by Alexander Black.
The first serious attempt to represent college life for women in magazine articles is begun in the May Scribner's, with " Undergraduate Life at Wellesley," by Abbie Carter Goodloe. Vassar will be described by Miss Sherwood in the June number, and Smith by Miss Fallows in July; both articles will be richly illustrated. The Living Age has bought the right to use serially Neil Munro's striking story, "John Splen did," which is now running in Blackwood's Maga zine. It is begun in The Living Age for May 28, and will be published in weekly instalments until it is completed. It is Scotch — but not too Scotch; and as W. L. Alden has well said it marks a wide departure from the " kailyard school " of fiction. The diplomatic, financial, political and military phases of the Cuban situation are exhaustively re viewed in the American Review of Reviews for May in the illustrated " Progress of the World " and "Record of Current Events " down to the outbreak of hostilities between the United States and Spain, while " The War Question in Cartoons " and " Lead ing Articles of the Month " throw important side lights on the discussion. " Kuropatkin : War Lord of Russia " is the title of a brilliant character sketch
Captain Alfred T. Mahan has written a paper for the June number of The Century on the causes of the failure of the Spanish Armada. It accom panies an illustrated article giving the story of the famous catastrophe, based on manuscript records and on the narratives of survivors and other Spanish documents. Besides the article on the causes of the failure of the Spanish Armada, this number contains •' Ten Months with the Cuban Insurgents," the ex perience of a major in the army under Garcia, and an article on "The Confederate Torpedo Service," by the electrician of the Torpedo Division in the Con federate Navy who laid the mine which blew up the first gunboat ever destroyed by this means.
The Atlantic for June gives the place of honor to an editorial discussion and summary, patriotic but judicial, of our War with Spain. Ira Nelson Hollis, Professor of Engineering in Harvard Uni versity, follows with a graphic article upon " The Uncertain Factors in Naval Conflicts." The issue is also strong as an educational number, and Pro fessor C. Hanford Henderson's New " Programme in Education;" Frederic Burk's "Normal Schools and the Training of Teachers," and D. S. Sanford's "High School Extension," will challenge the atten tion of every educator and every parent. Important essays and reviews are a " Successful Bachelor" (a sketch of the life of Henry Crabb Robinson), by Leon H. Vincent; "A New Estimate of Cromwell," by James Ford Rhodes, and careful articles upon Bodley's " France" and Henry George's " Political Economy." Brilliant short stories and "The Con tributors' Club " complete an aggressive and progres sive number of the magazine.
