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fare. I stand under the shoes of my client and only seek to place my bone of contention clearly in your lordship's eye. My learned friend vainly runs amuck upon the sheet anchors of my case. He ought not to be allowed to raise a castle in the air by beating upon a bush." This latter bar rister was a learned Hindu who had derived his knowledge of English in London, after his arrival, and who, as foreigners often do, thought in his own language and under spur of the moment of ex pression mentally translated into the tongue which he uttered. Doubtless his lordship smiled and proceeded to pick " the bone of contention " with the barrister.
paper man : it was a literary crime that he was set to detect, and while on the trail of it he found some thing else. Among other articles are, " The Eastern Shore of Maryland," by Calvin Dill Wilson; " Irri gation from Under Ground," by John E. Bennett; "Some Botanic Gardens," by George Ethelbert Walsh, and " To-day in the Bible," by William Cecil Elam. McClure's Magazine for January contains the first of a series of articles by Herbert E. Hamblen describing, from fifteen years' personal experience, the daily life and disasters of a railroad workman. There is a character sketch of Mark Twain by Robert Barr, and a character study of Boutet de Monvel, the distinguished painter of children.
CURRENT EVENTS. The skylark and woodlark are about the only birds that sing as they fly. The British government realizes fifty-six thousand, five hundred dollars a year for waste paper.
From ten pounds of corn meal you can obtain eight pounds of good nourishment, while from the same quantity of potat6es there is less than a pound of nutritious material. LITERARY NOTES. Scribner's Magazine for January contains the first installment of " The Story of the Revolution," by Henry Cabot Lodge, and of "Red Rock," a chronicle of reconstruction, by Thomas Nelson Page. Other articles are, " In the Chestnut Groves of Northern Italy," by Susan Nichols Carter, " Some Tendencies of Modern Opera," by Reginald de Koven, and "A French Literary Circle," by Olive Gorren. The stories in this number are, " The Queen versus Billy," by Lloyd Osborne, and "Tizzard Castle," by Wolcott LeClear Beard.
The complete novel in the January issue of Lippincott's is " John Olmstead's Nephew," by Henry Willard French. A hurried marriage is necessary to secure some solid interests and defeat an enemy, and thereon hangs a romance. "Christmas Gold," a tale of Australia, by Owen Hall, and " Christmas Eve at Bilger's," which was in a Western mining camp, by Frank H. Sweet, celebrate the season. Why should Christmas stones appear a month ahead of Christmas? These are just in time. Philip G. Hubert, Jr., tells at some length, but in a lively way, of "A Detective who Detected." He was a news-
In the January number of the American Monthly Review of Reviews, the opening editorial depart ment of " The Progress of the World" gives a clear and exhaustive New Year's summary of political con ditions in both hemispheres at the threshold of 1898. The elaborate article on " The Future of AustriaHungary," by an Austrian, is by all odds the best ac count yet given in the English language of the war ring forces which threaten to undermine the dual monarchy of central Europe; Lord Brassey's remark able paper on "The Position of the British Navy," with Assistant-Secretary Roosevelt's comments, is full of food for thought when read in connection with the compact digest of the United States annual naval report, which follows, and the review of Captain Mahan's new book; two noteworthy letters of Count Tolstoi on the doctrine of Henry George, one ad dressed to a German disciple of George and the other to a Siberian peasant, are also published in this number. The January Century has the opening part of Dr. Weir Mitchell's new novel, " The Adventures of Francois : Foundling, Thief, Juggler and Fencing Master during the French Revolution," which is il lustrated by Castaigne. Contributions on foreign topics are, " Scenes from Huxley's Home Life," by his son, Leonard Huxley, with a new portrait en graved by Johnson. " The Lord Mayor's Show," by Mr. and Mrs. Pennell. " French Wives and Mothers," by Miss Anna L. Bicknell; a short paper on Jean-Charles Cazin, with illustrations of his work. by William A. Coffin; and an historical study by Archibald Forbes, entitled "A Myth of Waterloo." The American material includes " Recollections of Washington and his Friends," as preserved in the family of Nathaniel Greene, contributed by Martha L. | Phillips; " Every-Day Heroism," by Gustav Kobbe;
