son; "Miss Moffett," . by Marguerite Merington; "The Cursed Patois," by Mary Hartwell Catherwood, and "Ending on a Half-Note, by Madelene Yale Wynne. The April Century contains a number of articles on Pennsylvania coal mining, one of them by Jay Hambidge the artist, who contributes " An Artist's Impressions of the Colliery Region." The illustra tions include views in Lattimer, where the recent strikes occurred, and Mr. Hambridge has made a great number of interesting sketches of the many types of people that he found in the collieries. The Italians are called " Hikes" and the other foreigners — Slovaks, Polacks, etc. — are grouped under the name of " Hunks."
Prof. Henry C. Adams opens the April Atlantic with a timely and forcible paper dealing with the United States Interstate Commerce Commission, under the title of " A Decade of Federal Railway Regulation." Prof. George Howard Darwin, of Cambridge, England, follows up Professor See's re cent article on late astronomical discovery. In "A Nook in the Alleghanies," Bradford Torrey gives a charming account of the opening of spring in Western Virginia. The Greek tragedians are dis cussed by Prof. Thomas D. Goodell of Yale Uni versity, who shows the import and value of their work at the present time. In " A Romance of a Famous Library," Herbert Putnam, the head of the Boston Public Library, tells the story of the accumu lation and dispersion of the famous Ashburnham collection.
The complete novel in the April issue of Lippincott's, " Meriel," is a love story in the peculiar vein of Amelie Rives, Princess Troubetzkoy. The scene is laid mainly in Italy, though the hero and heroine are English. Other stories are "The Ark in the Wilderness," by Alice MacGowan; " The Recruit who was Rushed," by Charles B. Lewis; " William Tyrwhitt's Copy," by Bernard Capes; and "A Boun dary War," by W. H. Babcock. " The Strangest River in America," the Colorado, with its terrible canons and rapids, is described by John E. Bennett. R. G. Robinson writes of "Florida Storms," and Dr. Harvey B. Bashore on " The Making of Man." James M. Scovel's paper on " Thaddeus Stevens" includes some personal reminiscences. Henry Willard French's observations and experiences " In an Australian Camp " will be found both interesting and instructive.
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WHAT SHALL WE READ? This column is dnioted to brief notices of recent pub lications. We hope to make it a ready-reference column for those of our readers who desire to in form themselves as to the latest and best new books. (Legal publications are noticed elsewhere.) Hon. Philip Lindsley of the Dallas, Texas, bar has published for private distribution a little pamphlet entitled " Humor of the Court Room." A more enter taining description of a trial at law it would be diffi cult to find. It abounds with wit and humor from beginning to end, and is, in fact, so good that it seems a pity that the profession at large should not have the enjoyment of it, and it is to be hoped that Mr. Lindsley will allow an edition to be prepared for their delectation. Remarkably full of incident and adventure and, at the same time, of great interest to the reader, is Mrs. Rhone's Among the Duues. The legal profession will appreciate the chapters devoted to the trial which results in putting the rightful owner in possession of his estate, and we may add that for once a novelist appears to have a clear and correct appreciation of legal principles. The latest addition to the " Library of Economics and Politics" is a volume entitled Southern States men of the Old Regime. ' The work possesses an especial interest for the legal profession, inasmuch as the subjects selected include a number of eminent lawyers. Opening with a sketch of Washington, Mr. Trent then gives very full and well considered sketches of Thomas Jefferson, John Randolph of Roanoke, John C. Calhoun, Alexander H. Stephens, Robert Toombs and Jefferson Davis. The author has col lected a great amount of valuable information, much of which will be new to the reader of to-day. Ex cellent portraits accompany the sketches, and the book is one which will be a desirable acquisition to any library. The strangely eventful experiences of a man who loses his identity and for years is deemed by the world as dead, are told in a most graphic manner by Mr. Tourgee in his new book entitled The Man Who Out lived Himself? The story is absorbingly interesting and well worked up. The volume also contains two shorter stories, " Poor Joel Pike," and " The Grave of Tante Angelique," both of which are inimitably told. Judge Tourgee well sustains his reputation as one of our most pleasing writers. 1 Southern Statesmen of the Old Regime. By William P. Trent, M. A. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Boston, 1S08. Cloth. 32.00. 2 The Man Who OutliveD Himself. By Albion W. Tourgee. Fords, Howard & Hulbert. New York, 1898. Cloth.
