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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



in the United States: but it is also inter- 

 esting reading for Americans generally. 



SCRIBNER'S 



Scribner's Magazine for May has secured 

 from Major-General Leonarn Wood, the 

 military governor of Santiago, the first 

 official account of the great work which 

 has been accomplished in that province. 

 It is practically the making of a State by a 

 military director, all of whose purposes 

 are benevolent, and who has no legislature 

 or other authority to consult deriving his 

 power directly from the President of the 

 United States. General Wood's narative? 

 which is the only thing that he has writ" 

 ten, is marked by a forcible directness and 

 modesty in telling of the things accomp- 

 lished. The way in which the city was 

 cleaned, the indigent relieved, the streets 

 repaved, schools established, and all of the 

 machinery of a civilized government, 

 instituted, is a remarkable record o* 

 achievement in military government. The 

 illustriations contrast the old Santiago 

 with the new', and show the work of regen- 

 eration. 



A striking account of colonial govern- 

 ment is also given in the picturesque paper 

 by G. W. Steevens on "The installation 

 of Lord Curzon as a Viceroy of India," 

 which reveals what long years of British 

 rule have made out of a subject people. 

 Mr. Steevens is the famous war correspopd- 

 ent (the author of "With Kitchner to 

 Khartum") and this is his first article in 

 an American magazine. It is a brilliant 

 piece of descriptive writing, giving pleas- 

 ing glimpses of the personality of the new 

 Viceroy and Vicereine who was an Ameri- 

 can girl. 



"AuntMinervy Ann" tells another story, 

 "How She Went Into Business," in the 

 inimitable manner of Joel Chandler Harris, 

 with Frost's illustrations. 



THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS. 



In view of the peace (conference soon to 

 take place, the article on "Our Delegates 

 to the Peace Conference," is particularly 

 appropriate for the May number. A bhort 

 sketch, together with a portrait, is given 

 of each of the men who are to represent 

 this country. Andrew D. White, Stanford 

 Newel, Seth Low, Alfred T. Mahan, Capt. 

 Wm. Crozier and Fred W. Holls, comprise 

 our delegates. "The Quarrel Between 



Norway and Sweeden," "International 

 Law in the War With Spain," and "Con- 

 ventions andjother Gatherings of 1899" are 

 other timely topics. The cartoons are al- 

 most crowded out. but room was found for 

 a page or two of particularly good ones. 

 The editorial department includes port- 

 raits of men who are prominently before 

 the American public, among them being 

 those of Thomas B. Reed, M. Quay, Hon. 

 H. S. Pingree, Mr. Croker, and many 



others. 



MCCLURE'S. 



McClure's Magazine for May will intro- 

 duce a new writer. Mr. Booth Tarkington, 

 of Indianapolis, with the opening install" 

 ment of a novel of present-day American 

 life. The story is pronounced by those 

 who have read it in manuscript as fresh 

 and absorbing in plot and remarkably 

 pleasing in its atmosphere and spirit- 

 Rudyard Kipling will have a story entitled 

 "The Flag of Their Country," which ex- 

 hibits very dramatically the difference be- 

 tween a popular orator and a sensitive' 

 high-minded boy in their respective ways 

 of "honoring their flag. 



J. L. Steffens, city editor of the New 

 York Commercial Advertiser' will tell the 

 story of Theodore Roosevelt's experience 

 and dealings with'party leaders and politi- 

 cal reformers from the moment he began 

 to be named for Governor of New York 

 down to the present time. It is no ordi- 

 nary story, and it has never before been 

 told in full. 



Oscar King Davis, the correspondent of 

 the New York Sun at Manila, will relate 

 some stories and reminiscences of Admiral 

 Dewey as Mr. Davis himself has seen and 

 known him during months of service be- 

 side him at Manila. 



Miss Tarbell will write of "Lincoln's 

 Search for a Man," relating from con- 

 temporary letters and reminiscences, 

 mainly unpublished, the story of Lincoln's 

 personal relations with the successive com- 

 manders of the army from McClellan down 

 to Grant. The paper will be fully illus- 

 trated. 



The May McClure's will contain another 

 series of C. D. Gibsons' Egyptian sketches 

 and more of Hamlin Garland's gold-trail 

 poems. It will olso contain another of 

 John A. Hill's striking railroad stories. 



