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MCCLURE S MAGAZINE 



For March contains an article on the 

 Klondike, by Hamlin Garland, who, the 

 editor's note says, has received his infor- 

 mation from head quarters, or in other 

 words from Hon. Clifford Sifton, Canadian 

 Minister of the Interior. The article is 

 called "Ho for Klondike," and in addition 

 to the description of the country and 

 routes, there are numerous illustrations, 

 many of them from photographs, hereto- 

 fore unpublished, of various points along 

 the way. Possibly few who have made up 

 their minds to go to the Klondike will 

 profit by the advice Mr. Garland gives 

 them, but will press on toward the north 

 to what he calls "a grim and terrible 

 country, and,'' he continues, "the man 

 who goes there to spend a year is likely to 

 earn with the ache of his bones and the 

 blood of his heart every dollar he finds in 

 gold. He should go like a man enlisting 

 for war." 



"Letters From the An dree Party" gives 

 an account of the start by Andree's fellow- 

 voyager, Nils Strindberg, in letters which 

 he wrote to his brother in New York, and 

 there are given also, letters relating to the 

 expedition from Strindberg's father. An- 

 other article in a somewhat similar vein is 

 "Where is Andree?" by Walter Wellman. 



A good short story is contributed by H. 

 Hobart Nichols, and called "An Experi- 

 ment in Burglary." 



SCRIBNER'S. 



Every American citizen should read 

 "The Story of the Revolution" and by so 

 doing gain a knowledge of the war of the 

 revolution and the events leading up to it 

 that can not be obtained from histories, 

 condensed as they are obliged to be. But 

 in this "Story" (which begins in the Jan- 

 uary issue) Senator Lodge gives the little 

 events that add so much to the interest of 



the chronicle, and carries his readers with 

 him from the year 1774 the outbreak of 

 the Revolution, when Mrs. Washington 

 says of her son George "I hope you will 

 all stand firm. I know George will," to 

 the installment in the March number. 

 This tells of the writing of the Declaration 

 of Independence, with a fac simile of the 

 rough draft. In the April nnmber'we will 

 have an account of the fight for the Hud- 

 son and the battles of Trenton and Prince- 

 ton. 



Under the title "A Pompeiian Gentle- 

 man's Home-Life," E. Neville-Rolfe gives 

 a description of a house that was recently 

 excavated from the ruins of Pompeii. 

 The illustrations accompanying the article 

 are very fine. 



"The Workers. The West," by Walter 

 A. Wyckoff, begins in this number, and 

 is so vividly written that ones heart aches 

 for the miserable creatures it describes. 



Among the good short stories are: "The 

 Madonna That is Childless," by T. R. 

 Sullivan; and "The Frugal Mind," by 

 Marie Frances Upton." 



THE FORUM. 



In the February number Frank K. Fos- 

 ster contributes an interesting article on 

 "The Condition of the American Working 

 Class: How can it be Benefitted? " in 

 which he takes a very sensible view of the 

 labor question. That he is on the side 

 of the laboring man is clear,but he does not 

 go to the extremes that some friends of 

 labor do, oftentimes doing the cause more 

 harm than good. Mr. Forser says that 

 the present discontent among the laborers 

 of to-day is not a discouraging sign does 

 not prove that his condition is worse than 

 that of his ancestors, or that the cause is 

 degenerating but, on the contrary, shows 

 that progress has been made and the lab- 

 orer has become instead of a mere burden- 



