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WITH OUR EXCHANGES. 







THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS. 



The topics treated of this month include 

 such important and timely ones as "The 

 Material Problems in the Philippines," 

 ' 'The Czar's Peace Conference, ' ' ' 'Canada's 

 Claims Before .the Joint High Commis- 

 sion," and very many move, all by writers 

 of authority. A photograph of the new 

 French president, with an account of the 

 election at Versailles and a short biograph- 

 ical sketch of M. Loubet are attractive 

 features of the number. ''Landscape 

 Gardening for Factory Homes;" con- 

 tributed by W, H. Tolman, giving pic- 

 tures of what has been made of the factory 

 homes at Dayton, Ohio. The hints given 

 could be put to profitable use by city 

 people and transform their dwelling 

 places from bare, uninviting "stopping 

 places," to restful nooks worthy of the 

 sweet word "home." Musicians will en- 

 joy seeing the portraits of America's 

 native musicians, Miss Maud Powell, 

 W. H. Sherwood, Clarence Eddy, and 

 others equally well known, which illus- 

 trates the article on " A Group of Native 

 American Musicians." 



MCCLURE'S MAGAZINE. 



Cleveland Moffett's account of his 

 journeys on the engines and in the postal 

 cars of the Fast Mail, at a rate of upwards 

 of ninety miles an hour, gives the April 

 McClure's a fairly dramatic opening. The 

 intensity of service required of man and 

 mechanism under the new schedule, that 

 saves a full day's time between the two 

 oceans, is depicted almost as the author's 

 personal experience. The article is 

 spiritedly illustrated by W. D. Stevens 

 with drawings made from life. 



The reminescence of Lincoln from 

 Charles Summer, Carl Schurz, and others, 

 embodied in Miss Tarbell's account of 

 Lincoln's attitude and relation to emanci- 

 pation, give the paper much historical 

 value as well as add greatly to its interest. 



Other noteworthy things in the 

 number are a series of poems by Hamlin 



Garland, "The Trail to the Golden North:'' 

 characteristic short stories by Rudyard 

 Kipling and Sarah Orne Jewetf, a strong 

 story of political life, and a humorous 

 little story of far Western life. It is an 

 interesting number throughout. 



LADIES' HOME JOURNAL. 



Ian Maclaren, who is now on a lectur- 

 ing tour in this country, begins in an 

 early issue of The Ladies' Home Journal 

 his latest piece of literary work. It is a 

 series of popular articles in which he 

 defines the relation that a minister holds 

 to his congregation : how a preacher is 

 helped by his people; how a congregation 

 can make the most of a minister, and 

 other phases of the most satisfactory 

 attitude of a congregation to a pastor. 



Miss Viola Allen, the "star" of Hall 

 Crane's dramatization of his popular- 

 novel, "The Christian," has always 

 aspired to be an author. She has said 

 that .here are two things which she would 

 rather do than act : write a book, or be a 

 trained nurse. She will now make her 

 literary debut in an article which she has 

 written for The Ladies' Home Journal, 

 reciting and explaining fully "What the 

 Life of an Actress Means." 



THE FORUM. 



The leading paper in the April issue 

 "The Industrial Development of Russia;" 

 and the writer is Prof. Ivan Oseroff, of 

 Moscow University, a prominent Russian 

 economist. An article by a Russian or 

 Russian industries in an American maga- 

 zine is a rarity; and Prof. Oseroff 's survey 

 is both comprehensive and what is more 

 important to the reader exceptionally 

 interesting. Another paper, on a subject 

 of still greater importance to Americans, 

 is that by Mr. Jonn P. Young on "The 

 Menace of England's Commercial Suprem- 

 acy." Mr. Young proves conclusively the 

 decadence of English agriculture, and 

 shows the disastrous results to British 

 industry of the invasion of the English 

 iron and steel markets by American pro- 



