WITH OUR EXCHANGES. 



The charming "Cranford" folks have 

 been written into a play, and make their 

 appearance in the February Ladies Home 

 Journal. Even more dramatic is "The 

 Beautiful Daughter of Aaron Burr," with 

 her romance, her supreme happiness and 

 crushing sorrows all crowded into a few 

 years. "The Clock by Which We Set All 

 Our Watches," "The Buffaloes of Good- 

 night Ranch," "A Woman to Whom 

 Fame Came After Death," "The Life of 

 the English Girl," are features of interest. 

 The last of "The Blue River Stories" is 

 published in the February journal, and 

 "The Story of a Young Man" is nearing 

 its conclusion, while "The Success of 

 Mary the First" increases in humorous 

 interest. "Is the Newspaper Office the 

 Place for a Girl?" is the theme of. Edgar 

 Bok's editorial symposium, which is made 

 peculiarly convincing by the opinions of 

 editors and newspaper women. Caroline 

 Leslie Field writes of "The Problem of 

 the Boy;" Helen Watterson Moody, "The 

 Trying Time Between Mother and 

 Daughter, and "An American Mother,'' 

 "Why One Man Succeeds and His 

 Brother Fails." "A Home in a Prairie 

 Town" and a "Brick and Shingle Farm- 

 house" give architectural plans and 

 detail. 



THE FORUM. 



Of the fourteen articles in the Febru- 

 ary Forum, the one entitled "The Rehabi- 

 litation of the Democratic Party," by "An 

 ex-Democrat," will, perhaps attaact the 

 widest atttention. In his article, Nationa- 

 lization of the State Guards," Gen. T. M. 

 Anderson advocates a judicious combi- 

 nation of our regular and volunteer estab- 



lishments. Hon. William Dudley Foulke 

 contributes an article entitled "The 

 Spellbinders," a narrative of the trials of 

 stump speakers in the heat of political' 

 campaigns, which is replete with humor- 

 ous anecdotes. The Lessons of the- 

 Election A Rejoinder," by Willis T.. 

 Abbot, is a reply from a Democratic stand- 

 point to Mr. Heath's article, "Lessons of 

 the Champaign," published in the Forum 

 for December. Mr.'Kelly Miller, the em- 

 inent negro scholar, a leader of his race,, 

 writes about "The Negro and Education."' 

 "The Status of Porto Ricans in Our 

 Polity," by Stephan Pfeil, is a discussion- 

 of the vexatious question of the citizenship- 

 of the residents of our recently acquired- 

 possession, Porto Rico. Mr. James G. 

 Whitely, a leading authority on inter- 

 national law, has an article on the "Monroe- 

 Doctrine and the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty. ' r 

 "Should Woman's Education Differ from. 

 Man's?" is a dicussion of coeducation by 

 no less an authority than Charles F. 

 Thwing, President of Western Reserve- 

 University and Adelbert College. Mr, 

 Walter Maearthur's article on "The 

 American Trade-Unions and Compulsory 

 Abitration," treats of the labor question, 

 and the proposed innovation of com- 

 pulsory arbitrtiaon. "The Dark in 

 Literature," by Richard Burton, Professor 

 of Literature, University of Minnesota, 

 deals with the sombre, the brutal, the 

 terrible the abnoamal elements of life 

 as reflected in masterpieces of poetry and 

 the drama. 



