WITH OUR EXCHANGES. 



IN MCCLURE'S MAGAZINE 

 for January, Simon Lake, inventor of the 

 latest marvel in the way of submarine 

 boats, describes the construction of his 

 boat, and how he makes long journeys in 

 her at the bottom of the ocean, and while 

 there steps out of her by an open door into 

 the very sea, and examines wrecks and 

 fishes up cables and so on. Mr. Ray Stan- 

 nard Baker, in the same number, gives an 

 account of his own experiences on a sub- 

 marine voyage in the Lake boat: and both 

 articles are illustrated with drawings from 

 life by Mr. W. D. Stevens, who also made 

 the voyage in company with Mr. Baker. 



Miss Tardell gives an account, drawn 

 from new and original sources, of the in- 

 auguration of Lincoln as President in 1861, 

 and describes the first days of the new ad- 

 ministration, when Lincoln began to ex- 

 hibit his full power and sagacity as a 

 statesman, somewhat to the surprise of the 

 whole country, and especially to the sur- 

 prise of Mr. Seward, who was at first dis- 

 posed to be very fatherly towards Lincoln. 

 This number also contains the second 

 story in Kipling's new serial of school-boy 

 life, and stories by F. Nesbit and W. A. 

 Fraser. Stephen Crane contributes to the 

 same number what will, no doubt, be 

 found the full equivalent of a story a de- 

 scription of a ride he took on the engine 

 of the Scotch Express, the fastest train in 

 England. 



THE FORUM 



Begins the new year with an excellent 

 number. "The Race Conflict at Wilming- 

 ton" is discussed by Mr. H. Litchfield 

 West, a prominent newspaper correspon- 

 dent who personally visited Wilmington 

 and gives the results of his observation in 

 a very impartial manner. He said he 

 found a "very remarkable condition of 

 affairs. The city might have been pre- 

 paring for a siege instead of an election. 

 * Nearly two thousand Win- 

 chester rifles had been purchased by pri- 



vate citizens; and scarcely a man in the 

 entire city retired at night without a 

 weapon of some kind rifle, shot-gun, or 

 revolver by his bedside." The article 

 by Byron C. Matthews, "A study in Na- 

 tivities," containing statistics regarding 

 the percentage of native, as compared 

 with foreign-born, criminals and paupers, 

 in the United States, is not only interest- 

 ing but especially gratifying to Americans 

 in its conclusions. Miss Julia Bulkley 

 does not think it will spoil the child to 

 spare the rod. She favors the banishment 

 of corporal punishment from the school, 

 as she believes that "harshness begets 

 harshness, hardness and cruelty." Among 

 other subjects treated of in this number 

 are: "Life in the Klondyke," "San Fran- 

 cisco's Struggle for Good Government," 

 'Our Future Relations with Great Brit- 

 ain," written by Sir Charles Dilke: and 

 "The Liquor-Company System in Nor- 



THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS. 



The January number marks the begin- 

 ning of a new volume, as well as a new 

 year. The editorial department gives a 

 brief review or retrospective glance over 

 the two years past. The year 1897 was 

 described as one which closed upon "a 

 vast deal of unfinished business," of which 

 1898 witnessed the accomplishment. What 

 this country has already done, the general 

 effect it has had upon the world at large 

 and what the possibilities of the future 

 may be, combine to make this department 

 of great value. A short sketch is given of 

 General Calixto Garcia, who died in 

 Washington, D. C., Dec. llth, of pneu- 

 monia. There is something very pathetic 

 in the death of this great Cuban leader, 

 who for thirty years struggled against 

 Spanish tyranny and then, like Moses, 

 died just as he had led his followers with- 

 in sight of the promised land. His justice, 

 his respect for bravery, even in an enemy, 

 and his many other admirable qualities 



