

WITH OUR EXCHANGES. 







A NOVEL ALLIANCE. 



A score of the best-known Western writ- 

 ers, students and artists, have rallied 

 around the banner of the Land of Sun- 

 shine, edited by Chas. F. Lummis, at Los 

 Angeles, Cal., and will try to make in con- 

 cert, "a magazine really worthy to represent 

 the West." Mr. Lummis is nothing if not 

 Western in spirit. He believes that, 

 while the great magazines are indispensa- 

 ble, the West needs also a magazine of its 

 very own. He has now enlisted as stock- 

 holders and staff, Pres. David Starr Jor- 

 dan, of Stanford University, Wm. Keith, 

 Margaret Collier Graham, Mary Hallock 

 Foote, Charles Warren Stoddard, Ella Hig- 

 ginson, Grace Ellery Charming, John 

 Vance Cheney, Ina Coolbrith, Charles 

 Frederick Holder, Chas. Howard Shinn, 

 T. S. Van Dyke, Constance Goddard Du 

 Bois, Dr. Washington Matthews, George 

 Parker Winship, George Hainlin Fitch, F. 

 W. Hodge, John Comfort Filmore, and 

 several other.--. The Land of Sunshine is 

 nearing the end of its eighth volume. The 

 April and May numbers announce the new 

 syndicate. 



THE FORUM. 



Upon looking over the contents of the 

 May Forum "The Fifty Million appropria- 

 tion and its Lessons," by Hon. Hilary A. 

 Herbert, was the first thing that caught 

 my eye. and well repaid the perusal. In 

 speaking of the unanimity of the vote on 

 the appropriation bill in both House and 

 Senate. Mr. Herbert says it ''shows the 

 extent to which our Union has been ce- 

 mented by the blood of the heroes who 

 offered up their lives in our civil war, by 

 the generosity, forbearance and manliness 

 exhibited by the survivers of the struggle, 

 and by the mutual admiration which has 

 pruug up between them, * * * and 



now the chapter opened at Fort Sumter 

 has been closed by the Fifty Million Bill 

 in a manner that no patriot could have 

 dared to hope for in 1861." 



Col. A. K. McClure is quoted as saying 

 that "the oneness of purpose exhibited l>y 

 congress in the passage of this measure 

 was worth all it would cost, even if the 

 entire $50,000,000 should be thrown into 

 the sea." 



The lesson that Mr. Herbert brings out 

 is the one the nation is learning by hav- 

 ing to pay the high price for ships, etc., 

 which the urgency of the demand necessi 

 tates. There is no time for "bargain hunt- 

 ing;" these things must be had at (met- 

 without reference to price. As the writer 

 truly says, "The government that has 

 been niggardly in making military prepa- 

 rations in time of peace must pay the 

 piper and be lavish when war is immi- 

 nent." 



Another timely topic discussed by Dr. 

 John G. Bourinot, C. M. G. , clerk of the 

 Huse of Commons, of Canada, is'Tanada's 

 Relation with the United States, and her 

 influence in Imperial Councils." 



M'CLUKE S. 



The article by Hatnlin Garland in the 

 May number. "Ulysses Grant His Last 

 Year," gives an insight into the personal- 

 ity of the great general that is seldom ob- 

 tained from other sketches. The hero of 

 the battlefield, the president of the coun- 

 try, the two characters so often shown. 

 are barely touched upon, but we are intro- 

 duced to the man himself, whose awful 

 suffering during his last year arouses our 

 sympathy, while his unselfishness and 

 uncomplaining patience under it compels 

 our admiration. We are enabled to catch 

 a glimpse, as it were, of his great nature. 



There is a poem, "The Destroyers," by 



