•• The Weakness of the Executive Power in a Democ racy," by Henry Loomis Nelson; "Brother Jona than's Colonies," by Professor Albert Bushnell Hart; "Thirty Years of Francis Joseph," by Sidney Brooks; "The Naval Campaign of 1898 in the West Indies," by Lieutenant S. A. Staunton, with illustrations by Carlton T. Chapman, who was with the fleet through out the war as special artist for Harper's Weekly. A new novel, by W. D. Howells, is begun in this number and is entitled "Their Silver- Wedding Jour ney. There are also two short stories " The Love oi Parson Lord." by Mary E. Wilkins and " The Ro mance of Chinkapin Castle," by Ruth McEnery Stuart. "The Drawer" opens with "The Boy in the Cloth Hat," a story, by F. Hopkinson Smith.
The new year of Scr1bner's Magaz1ne opens in the January number with several features of great distinction. The place of honor is given to Governor Roosevelt, who will contribute not only his continued story of "The Rough Riders," but other articles on the naval preparations, the strategy and other impor tant subjects growing out of the war with Spain. A literary feature of equal importance, associated with the most loved man among modern novelists, is "The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson," edited by his friend Sidney Colvin. Among other interest ing articles are " With the Sirdar," by Major Edward Stuart Wortley; "A ride into Cuba for the Red Cross," by Dr. Charles R. Gill, and "Searchlight Letters," by Robert Grant. The fiction for the com ing year is to be notable. George W. Cable begins a short serial called " The Entomologist." Richard Harding Davis contributes the first fiction that has grown out of his war experience. It is a short love story entitled " On the Fever Ship." Other short stories are a striking fantastic tale by Arthur C. Smith, called " The Peach," and Edith Wharton's strange tale about the woman who inspired a poet — called "The Muse's Tragedy." The January Atlant1c opens the new year and the new volume brilliantly and forcibly with a careful and discriminating comparison between the " De structive and Constructive Energies of our Govern ment," by President Eliot, of Harvard University. Dr. George Bird Grinnell, in "The Wild Indian," pleads for a better understanding of the red man. In "Fathers, Mothers and Freshmen," LeBaron R. Briggs arraigns frankly and sharply many parents for sins which are visited on their children, or committed by them in their college courses. Professor Hugo Miinsterberg has an interesting article on " Psychol ogy and Mysticism "; Bradford Torrey. one on " Au tumn in Franconia, and in "A Mother of Marytrs,"
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Chalmcr Roberts gives a thrilling and pathetic de scription, from his own actual experience, of the ter rible Turko-Armenian massacres at Constantinople two years ago. The stories are " Hot-foot Hanni bal," by Charles W. Chesnutt, and "The Twentyfirst Man," by Madge Sutherland Clarke. The valuable series of papers on " Principles of Taxation," by the late David A. Wells, whose publi cation was interrupted by the illness and death of the author, are now to be concluded in two or three arti cles, the manuscript for which was found practically complete among Mr. Wells's papers. The first of these "The Law of the Diffusion of Taxes," appears in Appleton's Popular Sc1ence Monthly for Jan uary. Professor Joseph Jastrow is the author of a very instructive and amusing illustrated article entitled "The Mind's Eye." Other articles are " Our Florida Alligator," by I. W. Blake; "Cephalic Index," by Professor W. Z. Ripley, and " Nature Study in the Philadelphia Normal School," by Mrs. L. L. W. Wilson. The Christmas number of The Century appears in a striking cover, designed by Tissot, the famous French artist who illustrated the " Life of Christ." Lieutenant Richmond Pearson Hobson is writing his personal story of" The Sinking of the ' Merrimac'" and the first of his papers appears in this number. Mr. S. D. Collingwood, a relative of the author of "Alice in Wonderland," contributes a paper on "Some of Lewis Carroll's Child Friends," contain ing many of his inimitable letters to little girls. Jacob A. Riis describes " The Passing of Cat Alley." There are a number of articles appropriate to the holiday season. A poem, " Christmas Eve," by Edna Proctor Clarke, has striking frontispiece pic tures by Maxfield Parrish. J. James Tissot, writes of "Christmas at Bethlehem." "Uncle 'Riah's Christmas Eve" is a humorous southern story by Ruth McEnery Stuart. The prize poem in The Cen tury's competition for college graduates, " The Road 'Twixt Heaven and Hell," by Anna Hempstead Branch, is printed, with illustrations by Henry McCarter. The complete novel in the January issue of L1pp1ncott's is " The Mystery of Mr. Cain," by Miss La fayette McLaws, daughter of the Confederate general of that name. The scene is in Georgia, and the plot is so uncommon that to reveal it would be unfair to the reader. The other stories are, "The Other Mr. Smith," by Ellen Douglas Deland, " John Rutland's Christmas," by Henry A. Parker. In " Black Feather's Throw" Joseph A. Altsheler deals again with the times when Indians tortured their white prisoners
