WITH OUR EXCHANGES. 



LADIES HOME JOURNAL. 



A score of writers and artists contribute 

 to the October Ladies Home Journal, 

 and the issue is one of commanding excel- 

 lence. The number opens with u The 

 Story of a Young Man," which portraying 

 Jesus as a man, and viewing him in the 

 light of his humanity, fills a unique and 

 unoccupied place in current literature. 

 The first of ''A Story of Beautiful Women" 

 tells of the romance of an American girl 

 who married a Boneparte, and a series of 

 stirring adventures are narrated in the 

 first of the " Blue River Bear Stories," by 

 the author of "When Knighthood was in 

 Flower." Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' 

 new novel, "The Successors of Mary the 

 First," which has to do with domestic and 

 suburban life, and is exceeding!}' funny, is 

 begun in the October Journal. Edward 

 Bok arraigns the" Pullman Palace Car 

 Company for teaching false standards of 

 decorative art. Of the special features of 

 interest are: ''The Longings of a Se- 

 cluded Girl," "A Minister Among the 

 Cowboys," "Romances of Some Southern 

 Homes," "How We Can Lead a Simple 

 Life." and "Criticising the Clothes of the 

 Minister's Family," "A Georgian House 

 for $700 " and "A Farmhouse for $3500 " 

 are given, with building plans and details, 

 and "A Successful Country Home"pictures 

 the exterior and interior of a house of log 

 construction. By The Curtis Publishing 

 Co., Philadelphia. One dollar a year; ten 

 cents a copy. 



MC CLURE'S. 



Especial interest will attach to a special 

 article in the campaign number of 

 McClure's Magazine, entitled " The 

 Strategy of National Campaigns." Dr. A. 

 Conan Doyle will write on "Some Lessons 

 of the War," in which he takes up the 



various branches of the service in the 

 South African war and criticizes their 

 conduct in the late struggle as well as the 

 general system governing the British 

 army. "The Horse Thief " is the title of 

 a story by E. Hough. It tells how four 

 Western ranchmen, as they innocently 

 would have put it. attempted to "run off a 

 bunch' 1 of sever*! hundred horses "up in 

 Montanny." 



THE FORUM. 



Of the fourteen articles which constitute 

 the October offering of The Forum no less 

 than eleven may be classed under the 

 head of timely. In a ringing article 

 Senator J. P. Dolliver discusses what are 

 "The Paramount Issues of the Campaign" 

 from a Republican point of view. Two 

 views of the Cuban question are given, 

 one being "A Plea for the Annexation of 

 Cuba," by a Cuban whose name cannot be 

 disclosed, and the other a forcible exposi- 

 tion of the reasons "Why Cuba Should be 

 Independent." The Hon. Charles Denby 

 considers "The Future of China and of 

 the Missionaries" in a tone that will find 

 thousands of sympathizers even among 

 those who decide such questions by the 

 test of political expediency. "The Negro 

 Problem in the South " is taken up by 

 Representative 0. W. Underwood, of 

 Alabama, in an article that may be con- 

 sidered a reply to Gen. C H. Grosvenor's 

 late plea against the disfranchisement of 

 the ignorant negro voter. In an article 

 full of information Marion Wilcox analyzes 

 the substance of "Our Agreement with 

 the Sultan of Sulu," and Victor S. Clark, 

 late President of the Insular Board of 

 Education in Puerto Rico, tells of the 

 strides education is making under Ameri- 

 can auspices on that island. "The British 

 General Election " is treated bv no less an 



