

WITH OUR EXCHANGES. 



SATURDAY EVENING POST. 



Ian Maclaren, who has done very little 

 literary work for some months, has just 

 written for The &iturd<ty Evening Post, of 

 Philadelphia, an important series of four 

 short stories, under the general title. A 

 Scots Grammar School, the first of which 

 will appear in the issue of June 3. In 

 these siories the author returns to the 

 Scotch' town and folk he knows so well, 

 and depicts the scenes of his own boyhood 

 with the same sweet humor and pathos 

 that brought Beside the ''Bonnie Brier- 

 Bash" into such immediate and lasting 

 favor. 



Muritown Seminary is drawn from 

 Stirling Grammar School, where the 

 author prepared for the 'University 'of 

 Edinburgh. 



MCCLURES MAGAZINE. 



For a description of Marconi's wireless 

 telegraph that anybody can understand, 

 and an account of its latest achievements 

 that everybody will be interested in 

 readers may be referred to the June 

 uumber of McClure's Magazine. The 

 article is written with the assistance of 

 Mr. Marconi himself, by Mr. Cleveland 

 Moffett. who himself sent and received 

 messages by the wireless telegraph across 

 the English Channel: and it is fully illus- 

 trated from photographs taken expressly 

 for the purpose. 



Another interesting and valuable article 

 in this number of McClure's is an account 

 of negotiations between Admiral Dewey 

 and. the Spanish commanders that led to 

 the tinal surrender of Manila practically 

 without any fighting between the land 

 forces. It is written by Oscar King Davis. 

 Manila correspondent of the New York 

 Sun, from the diary of M. Edourd Andre, 

 the Belgian consul at Manila, through 

 whom the negotiations were conducted. 

 It is. therefore, authoritative: and it is a 

 story that has never before b^en told. It 



gives new illustration of the rare tact and 

 sagacity of the American admiral. 



SCRIBNER'S. 



There will b3 four short stories in the 

 June Scribner's, suitable for the season 

 when the summer travel has just begun. 

 Two of the best known American writers, 

 Henry James and Joel Chai dler Harris, 

 will be represented, and two new writers, 

 William Allen White i famous for his edi- 

 torial. "What's the Matter with Kansas': 1 ") 

 and Robert Shackleton. a New York jour- 

 nalist. Governor Roosevelt concludes the 

 story of his regiment with a striking letter 

 from a school teacher, telling how some of 

 the Rough Riders adjusted themselves to 

 the conditions of peace on their return 

 home. It is a tribute to the affection in 

 which the Colonel was held by his regi- 

 ment. 



The journal of the Association of Engi- 

 neering Societies for March. 1899. contains 

 the following papers: The efficiency of 

 the Bicycle, by Robert H. Fernald: Exper- 

 ience in Sewer Construction, by L. M. 

 Hastings: Maintenance of the System of 

 Separate Sewers at Newton, Mass.. by 

 Stephen Childs. 



Mr. Fernald describes the results of 

 experiments a' the Case School of Applied 

 Science, Cleveland, O., to determine the 

 effect of various conditions upon the effi- 

 ciency of the machine. The several ex- 

 periments, each represented by a diagram, 

 include the following comparisons: chain 

 and chainless bicycles, bicycles of different 

 grades, bicycles in good and in bad con- 

 dition, the effects of oiling, of chain pro- 

 tection of difference of gearing, and of 

 inflation of the rear tire 



Mr. Hasting-s relate* xperience gained 

 in the city of C-unbridge, Mass., resp^ct- 

 injr the effect of the character and con- 

 dition of the soil upon the size, character 

 and cost of a new system. 



