1898. 



FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR. 



Eclectic Magazine 



OF 



Foreign Literature, Science, and Art. 



"The Literature of the World." 



^^HE ECLECTIC MAGAZINE reproduces from all the leading Foreign Periodicals 

 those articles of interest or value to American Readers. It will endeavor to consult the 

 taste of all thoughtful and intelligent people, and to present impartially the most valuable 

 articles by the ablest writers on both sides of the great questions of the day which are occupying 

 the attention of the literary and scientific world. 



The yearly numbers of the Eclectic comprise 1728 pages — a carefully selected Library in 

 itself — containing : 



SCIENCE, REVIEWS, 



HISTORY, ESSAYS, 



POETRY, CRITICISMS, 



PHILOSOPHY, TRAVELS, 



BIOGRAPHY, SHORT STORIES. 



The following list gives the principal periodicals selected from, and the names of some of 

 the well-known authors whose articles have recently appeared in the Eclectic : 



PERIODICALS. 



Westminster Review, 

 Contemporary Review, 

 Fortnightly Review, 

 The Nineteenth Century, 

 Popular Science Review, 

 Blackwood's Magazine, 

 Cornhill Magazine, 

 Macmillan's Magazine, 

 New Review, 

 National Review, 

 Chambers's Journal, 

 Temple Bar, 

 The Athenaeum, 

 Public Opinion, 

 Saturday Review, 

 The Spectator, etc., etc. 



AUTHORS. 



Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone, 



Andrew Lang, 



Prof. Max Muller, 



J. Norman Lockyer, F. R. S., 



James Bryce, M. P., 



William Black, 



W. H. Mallock, 



Herbert Spencer, 



T. P. Mahaffy, 



Sir Robert Ball, 



Prince Kropotkin, 



Archdeacon Farrar, 



St. George Mivart, 



Rev. H. R. Haweis, 



Frederic Harrison, 



Karl Blind, etc., etc. 



The aim of the Eclectic is to be instructive and not sensational, and it commends itself 

 particularly to Teachers, Scholars, Lawyers, Clergymen, and all intelligent readers who desire to 

 keep informed of the intellectual progress of the age. 



With the Eclectic and one good American Monthly, the reader will be fully abreast of the 

 times. 



TERMS : Single copies, 45 cents ; one copy one year, $5.00. Trial subscription for three 

 months, $1.00. The Eclectic and any $4.00 Magazine to one address, $8.00. Special rates 

 made to clubs of two or more periodicals which include the Eclectic. 



E. R. PELTON, Publisher, 129 Fifth Ave., New York. 



1 



J 



