said that the only contrivance bearing any resem blance to this " Pont Transbordeur " is in operation at Bilbao.— Chambers' Journal.
LITERARY NOTES. There is marked variety in the February number of The Century. In the series of " Heroes of Peace," Jacob A. Riis writes of " Heroes who Fight Fire," Captain H. D. Smith writes of " The United States Revenue-Cutter Service." There is a graphic personal narrative of experience in " The Steerage of To-day," by H. Phelps Whitmarsh, who came over as " No. 1616, Group C," the narrative accompanied by Castaigne's sketches. An unusually novel paper is " My Bedouin Friends," by R. Talbot Kelly. Other subjects that are treated are "The Great Ex position at Omaha," by the supervising architect; "Currency Reform," by a member of the Monetary Commission; an appreciation by Brander Matthews of the distinguished American scholar, Professor Lounsberry of Yale; an account and facsimile of the MS. of " Auld Lang Syne," owned by Mrs. Pruyn, of Albany, with an unpublished portrait of Burns; and a description of " Kuskin as an Oxford Lecturer."
The recent enlargement of The Living Age, the addition of new departments, the widening of its scope by the introduction of translations from prom inent Continental authors on topics of present inter est, and the presentation of American literature, are evidences of enterprise that will be appreciated by its readers. Space will allow for the enumeration of a few only of the many papers presented in recent numbers. These include " Brunetiere's Impressions of Amer ica," from the Revue des Deux Mondes; " The Un rest of the Nations," from the " Spectator"; "Ramozan," by Hugh Clifford; " Blackwoodiana," by Her bert Maxwell; " The Dual and Triple Alliance and Great Britain," by Francis de Pressense; " Heinrich Heine : A Centenary Retrospect," by Edward Dowden; " Women at Oxford and Cambridge," from the Quarterly Review : " Some Reminiscences of Thomas Henry Huxley," by St. George Mivart.
McClure's Magazine for March contains a valu able article on the Klondike. Within the last month government surveyors and explorers have returned with full information regarding the character of the country and the ways of reaching it and living in it, and this article, prepared by Mr. Hamlin Garland, embodies information derived from these survey ors and explorers in special interviews with them. The next chapter of Charles A. Dana's Reminis
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cences gives Mr. Dana's impressions of Secretary Stanton as he saw him in the intimacy of the daily work of the War Department. Herbert E. Hamblen relates the story of his own experiences as a freight engineer. There is also an article on " Andree, the Arctic Balloon Explorer," by Walter Wellman, who himself conducted an expedition into the Arctic region in 1894. A beautifully illustrated account of a winter trip to the Sahara Desert, by Prof. Angelo Heilprin, is contained in the March number of Appleton's Pop ular Science Monthly. Other articles are, " An Apostate Democracy," a sharp criticism of the degen eration of American methods of Government, by Franklin Smith; the Pioneer Scientific Society of the West, the Academy of Natural Sciences of St. Louis, is described by Prof. Frederick Starr, and an interesting illustrated sketch entitled "Fabric-marked Pottery." Harper's Magazine for March contains several martial articles; " An American Army Manoeuvre," by Franklin Matthews. " In the Wake of a War," by Julian Ralph. " Stirring Times in Austria as seen from the Parliament at Vienna," by Mark Twain, and "The Traditional Attitude of Ger many toward Austria and Turkey," by an Eastern diplomatist. Other interesting articles are, " The Earliest Painter in America," by Charles Henry Hart; recently discovered records of Gustavus Hesselius, and of our first Public Art Commis sion;" Reminiscences of Eminent Lecturers," by Joel Benton; and '.' The Century's Progress in Anat omy and Physiology," by Henry Smith Williams, M. D. Henry D. Sedgwick, Jr., opens the March At lantic with a sparkling and suggestive paper upon French and English literature. Among other articles are " England's Economic and Political Crisis," by J. N. Larned; "The Municipal Service of Boston," by Hon. Francis C. Lowell; " The Australian Dem ocracy," by E. L. Godkin, and " Bacchylides and his Country," by Professor J. Irving Manatt. F. Hopkinson Smith's brilliant novel, " Caleb West," and Mrs. Wiggin's lively " Penelope's Progress," are concluded. Short stories and sketches are con tributed by Miss Willimina L. Armstrong, Mrs. Madelene Yale Wynne, and others.
"Our Black Aristocracy," is the title of a bright and entertaining article in the February National Magazine. It presents a new aspect of the race problem, and the illustrations are certainly very
