

WITH OUR EXCHANGES. 



MCCLURE'S MAGAZINE. 



McClure's Magazine for July A\ ill contain 

 an account of the daily personal and official 

 life of President McKinley since the be- 

 ginning of the war crisis. It will be illus- 

 trated with wartime scenes in the White 

 House and the Departments, from life 

 drawings, and with portraits from recent 

 photographs of the men who are managing 

 the business of the war in Washington. 



"The First Fight on Cuban Soil" since 

 the beginning of the Avar with Spain will 

 also be described by Mr. Stephen Bonsai, 

 who was himself an eye-witness of the 

 fight. Mr. Bonsai also took the photo- 

 graphs frpm which his article is to be illus- 

 trated. 



And there is an illustrated article by 

 Cleveland Moffett describing his ex- 

 periences in a voyage on "The Fastest 

 Vessel Afloat" the famous "Turbinia," 

 which has time and again shown a speed 

 scarcely less than that of the fastest rail- 

 way train. 



.THE LITERARY DIGEST. 



The Literary Digest of July 2 gives the 

 "Views of Prominent Men on the Policy 

 of 'Imperialism,' " the latter term being 

 but another name for "Colonial expan- 

 sion." Moorfield Storey, Grover Cleve- 

 land, -Wm. J. Bryan and Senator Mori-ill 

 are among those who oppose it. Another 

 interesting article is the ''Powers of Con- 

 gress over Territorial Possessions." A 

 cartoon, reproduced from the Chicago 

 Inter-Ocean, hints that the quickest way 

 for the Hawaiian Island to get into the 

 Union would be to hoist the Spanish flag. 

 Under "Science and Invention'' the old 

 and new methods of medicine are com- 

 pared, and in the religious topics the lead- 

 ing one is "Marriage and Divorce Canons 

 of the Protestant Episcopal Church." 



Kven to the one who is forced to spend 

 his life in tbe city ; Avho has no interest in 

 agriculture, the ''Yearbook of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture for 1897" is interest- 

 ing, as evincing the interest that is being 



taken in agriculture by the government 

 and how much is being done to educate 

 and aid the farmer. The Secretary of 

 Agriculture, in calling upon the chiefs of 

 bureaus, divisions, etc. , of the Department 

 of Agriculture for contributions to the 

 Y'earbook for '97, said he wished them to 

 be "fully impressed with the fact that 

 every page contained in the Yearbook costs 

 the country $500, and is designed to be dis- 

 tribiited to half a million person s. * * * 

 I feel confident of the hearty co-operation 

 of each one of you in making this book 

 the best of its kind ever issued." The re- 

 sult shoAvs his .confidence Avas not mis- 

 placed. In addition to the reports of dif- 

 ferent departments are pages on timely 

 topics by those who know Avhereof they 

 speak," and illustrations that are remark- 

 ably fine. 



THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS. 



The frontispiece for the July number is 

 a picture of Lieut. R. P. Hobson. A 

 sketch of this hero with interesting pic- 

 tures is also given. ' 'Porto Rico as Seen 

 Last Month," Avith maps and illustrations, 

 "Our War Taxes". "The progress of the 

 War" and a character sketch of Gladstone, 

 the latter by W. T. Stead, are the leading- 

 articles. 



The chief feature of the Australian 

 edition of the Review of Reviews for May 

 is "A Post-card Plebiscite of the Federal 

 Bill" in autograph. 



THE FORUM. 



Simon Pokagon, last chief of the Potta- 

 Avattamie Pokagon band of Indians, con- 

 tributed an interesting article on "In- 

 dian Superstitions and Legends" to the 

 July Forum. Among the many interest- 

 ing legends he gives is the one relating to 

 the origin of the trailing arbutus, their 

 tribal floAver. The decree of the German 

 Emperor prohibiting the admission of Am- 

 erican fruits and plants is treated of, un- 

 der the title of "International Relations 

 Disturbed by an Insect," by L. O. Howard. 

 It tends to prove that this was not entirely, 



