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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



is one by the well known writer, John 

 Kendrick Bangs, "The Adventures of an 

 Organ" told in his happy, humorous vein. 

 "The Man in the Corn House," by Sewell 

 Ford, is founded upon incidents of the 

 war of 1812. "The Sixteenth Man" is a 

 love story whose rather stale plot is re- 

 deemed by the originality of its style. 

 "Summer Piazza Stories" are little inci- 

 dents concerning prominent men and 

 women that make up the most entertain- 

 ing page in the magazine. 



REVIEW OF REVIEWS. 



If the foregoing are called fiction num- 

 bers, the Review of Reviews may well be 

 classed as a "war number," since it is main- 

 ly concerned with the war and its results. 

 "Spanish Traits in the New World" is 

 one of the fairest and most unbiased 

 views that we have seen taken of the Span- 

 ish character. Sylvester Baxter points 

 out, in it, the Spaniard's good traits 

 .something we have heard so little about 

 that we almost doubted their existence. 

 "Present Problems and Politics of France," 

 is discussed very ably by Baron Pierre de 

 Coubertin, and there are many other arti- 

 cles of timely interest, such as "Our Bat- 

 tle with Cervera's Fleet," "The Siege and 

 Capture of Santiago," and of course, the 

 ever-present problem "What Shall be 

 Done With the Phillipines?" receives a 

 share of attention. 



titled "Character Sketch; Uncle Sam, 

 Lord Chief Justice of America." In it he 

 discusses the war with Spain from an Am- 

 erican standpoint, making a very interest- 

 ing matter of it. A great many of the 

 clever war cartoons are reproduced in it. 

 The same writer under the heading ''Topic 

 of the month" discusses the Anglo-Ameri- 

 can Alliance. 



REVIEW OF REVIEWS FOR AUSTRALASIA. 



We have just received the June number 

 of this publication. In it we ficd the first 

 portion of an article by W. T. Stead en- 



THE FORUM. 



The conclusion of the article by Albert 

 von Schaffle, "Austria-Hungary Under the 

 Reign of Francis Joseph'' appears in the 

 August number. Brooks Adams dis- 

 cusses ''The Spanish War and the Equil- 

 brium of the World.' Major John U. 

 Powell, director of the Bureau of Ameri- 

 can Ethnology tells "How a Savage 

 Tribe is Governed." Savage society 

 consists of four divisions the family, the 

 clan, the tribe and the confederacy and 

 in opposition to civilization, savages re- 

 gard the mother as the owner of the child- 

 ren and they therefore belong to her 

 clan. 



It has been many years since the phe- 

 nomena of spiritualism has occasioned 

 enough interest to cause standard jour- 

 nals to print anything regarding it, but in 

 this number of the Forum James H. Hy- 

 slop writes concerning the work of the 

 Society for Psychical Research, which was 

 founded in 1882 for the purpose of inves- 

 tigating table-turning, slate-writing and 

 other spiritualistic mysteries. The title 

 of the article is "The Problems of Inirnoi- 

 tality" and will commend itself to those 

 interested in psychological problems. 



