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REVIEW OF REVIEWS. 



One of the leading articles of the 

 September number of this valuable period- 

 ical is the one on Col. Uobt. G. Ingersoll, 

 by Rev. Wm. Hayes Ward, D. D. Por- 

 traits of the great freethinker are given in 

 connection with the text, one showing 

 him with his two grand children, another 

 taken in 1876 at the time when he made 

 his faaious speech nominating James G. 

 Blaiae and another from a late photo. 

 A picture is also given of the death-mask 

 by the sculptor G-eo. Grey Barnard. 



John Barrett tells of the "Half Year of 

 War With Aguinaldo," and Hon. Geo. E. 

 Roberts explains "Why Trusts Cannot 

 Control Prices." Another treatment of 

 the trust question is given by Henry Mac- 

 farland under the title "Must the 'Trust' 

 be a Presidential Issue?" The same 

 writer discusses our new secretary of 

 War, Elihu Root. 



Among the other leading articles that 

 make up this interesting number are two 

 that will appear more direetly to "Age" 

 readers, one "The Future Value of the 

 New England Farm," by Hezekiah .Butter- 

 worth and the other "Does Farming Pay'' 

 by Prof. L. H. Bailey. 



MCCLURE'S MAGAZINE. 



Mci'lure's Magazine for September opens 

 with a poem on the Dreyfus affair by 

 Edwin Markham which proves that the 

 mark reached by Mr. Markham in "The 

 Man with the Hoe" was not beyond his 

 reaching again. Following this comes a 

 character sketch of Admiral Sampson, by 

 Ray Stannard Baker. It is illustrated 

 with a series of portraits of Sampson and 

 various other pictures. 



Miss Tarbell concludes, in this number, 

 her series of papers on the later life of 

 Lincoln with an account of Lincoln's 

 funeral. 



An illustrated paper by Theodore Waters 

 describes the wonderful methods of tlie 

 Hydrographic Office in "guarding the high 



ways of the sea, "/and gives, from record* 

 of the Office, som: strange stories of sea 

 storms, derelicts, and icebergs. An ill s- 

 trated paper by Cleveland Moffett givt, a 

 very interesting account of Menelik, ,ie 

 king of Abyssinia, a black man, mon ^r 

 less barbarous' in costume and custom, it 

 still eagerly inteaested in the new. st 

 developments of science and invention ;, 

 devoted to the elevation of his people. 



There are half a dozen good, strong, . 

 teresting stories in the number, includii ^ 

 a true story of army life by Capt. J. E. 

 Brady and a true story of railroad life by 

 Cy Warman. 



THE FORUM. 



The Forum for September is a number 

 of world-wide interest. Mr. William T-- 

 Stead, editor "Review of Reviews," gives 

 his views of "The Conference at the 

 Hague;" President Robert E. Jones of 

 Hobart College discusses "Washington's 

 Farewell address and Its Applications;' 

 Mr. Ramon Reyes Lala, a native Filipino, 

 writes entertainingly of "The People of 

 the Philippines;" Prof. Rudolf Eucken 

 of Jnea tells of the ''Progress of Philos- 

 ophy in the Nineteenth Century;" Charles 

 Denby, Jr., contributes an article on 

 "Cotton-Spinning at Shanghai;" Sir Will- 

 iam H. Rattigan, an eminent jurist of 

 India, portrays "Indian Famines;" and A. 

 Cahan furnishes a review of "The Young 

 Russian Writers." 



SCRIBNER'S. 



For September contains an araicle by 

 Lieut. Col. J. D. Miley, on "Secret 

 Societies in the Philippines." Frederic 

 Island describes a 500-mile canoe trip 

 from Mattwa to the head waters of the 

 Ottawa river. Robert Louis Stevenson 

 describes his life in the Adirondacks. 

 Judge Robert Grant closes his series of 

 "Search Light Letters;" Henry Van Dyke 

 has a poem entitled "A Slumber Song for 

 the Fisherman's Child," etc. 



