THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS. 



The June number, like McClure's is a 

 "war number." The magazine opens with 

 the editor's review of the first month's 

 campaigning in our contest with Spain. 

 Tliis is' followed by the detailed account 

 of the struggle in the "Kecord of Current 

 Events" and "Cartoon Comments" on the 

 war, chiefly from foreign journals. The 

 contributed articles include a character 

 sketch of Admiral Dewey by Winston 

 Ch'irchill, two articles on the Philippines, 

 and one on "Spain and the Caroline 

 Islands" from a missionary point of view. 

 The department of "Leading Articles of 

 the Month" also deals with many ques- 

 tions growing out of the war. Altogether 

 there are more than eighty pictures of 

 subjects related to the present crisis. 



Admiral George Dewey, the hero of 

 Manilla, is the subject of a character 

 sketch by Winston Churchill. This is the 

 only time that the life story of our modest 

 Yankee admiral has been told in print 

 with any completeness. His boyhood 

 days in Vermont, his schooling at Annap- 

 olis, and later stirring experiences under 

 Farragut in the Civil War, are all passed 

 in review. Mr. Church ill is himself a grad- 

 uate of the United States Naval Academy 

 and the author of the very successful 

 novel entitled "The Celebrity." He had 

 unusual facilities for getting information 

 relative to Admirel Dewey's interesting 

 career and antecedents. 



SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE. 

 The leading article for June is "Under- 

 graduate Life at Vassar" by Margaret 

 Sherwood. The frontispiece is a portrait 

 of George Washington. In "The Work- 

 ers" we are given a glimpse of factory life. 

 Besides the continued stories is a short 



one, "Mies Jones and the Masterpiece," 

 drawings by Gibson entitled "A New York 

 Day. Moving," and something that those 

 whose geographical ideas are hazy will ap- 

 preciate A Group of Maps, including 

 maps of the United States coast, the West 

 Indies, and the Western Atlantic; the 

 North Atlantic Ocean, and Cuba. 



THE FORUM. 



The June issue of The Forum may, with 

 some degree of propriety, be termed a 

 Cuban number, for the first four articles 

 deal with the Island, or the war with 

 Spain. Senator Foraker heads the list 

 with a paper entitled "Our War with 

 Spain: its Justice and Necessity." He 

 gives a succinct account of the events 

 which led to the present war, and, among 

 other arguments in favor of intervention, 

 quotes the following passage from Prof. 

 Lawrence's "Principles of International 

 Law:"- 



''Should the cruelty be so long-continued 

 and so revolting that the best instincts of 

 human nature are outraged by it, and 

 should an opportunity arise for bridging 

 it to an end and removing its cause with- 

 out adding fuel to the flame of the contest, 

 there is nothing in the law of nations which 

 will condemn, as a wrongdoer, the state 

 which steps forward and undertakes the 

 necessary intervention Each case must 

 be judged on its own merits. ... I 

 have no right to enter my neighbor's gar- 

 den without his consent; but, if I saw a 

 child of his robbed and ill treated in it by 

 a tramp, I should throw ceremony to the 

 winds, and rush to the rescue without 

 waiting to ask permission." 



Helen C. Candee writes under the head- 

 ing "Social Conditions in our Newest Ter- 

 ritory" a sketch of Oklahoma Territory 



