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" What the World owes to the Arts of Persia," by S. G. W. Ben- 

 jamin; "The Written Examination and Good literature," by 

 Mary E. Burt; "Woman as Scholar," by Katharine Lee Bates; 

 "How to make a Wild Garden," by Mary Treat; "Woman's 

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— In the first of the steamship articles in the April Scribner, 

 John H. Gould says, ' ' From the records kept in the Barge Office 

 in New York City, it appears that ocean travel varies accord- 

 ing to the business situation in this country. Following is an 

 exhibit of the number of cabin passengers that arrived at this port 

 during the years between 1881 and 1890, inclusive: 1881, 51,229; 

 1882, 57,947; 1883, 58,596; 1884, 59,503; 1S85, 55,160; 1886, 

 68,743; 1887, 78,792; 1888, 86,802; 1889, 96,686; 1890, 99,189. 

 From one point of view, at least, these figures are very striking. 

 In 1889 there was a great show in Paris that attracted world-wide 

 attention and interest. In the spring of that year every steamship 

 agent announced to prospective passengers that all vessels would 

 be crowded, and that the volume of passenger traffic between the 

 continents would swamp the capacity of every line. But the 

 figures speak for themselves. Viewing the increase of oceanic 

 travel, it appears that the financial depression of 1884 kept many 

 people at home who otherwise might have crossed the ocean. 

 After that distressing season had passed, travel resumed its nor- 



mal condition, and an increase may be noted w^ith each year." 

 Birge Harrison (the American artist, now in Australia) describes 

 a kangaroo-hunt in the same issue. This curious animal has been 

 practically exterminated in the older parts of Australia. The 

 author says, " In some parts of Victoria they formerly outnum- 

 bered the sheep as two to one; and old shepherds have told me 

 that it was not an uncommon thing to see the sheep and the kan- 

 garoos feeding together upon the plains, as many as two or three 

 thousand kangaroos frequently accompanying a flock of a 

 ^ thousand sheep. Thus it will be seen that a 'station ' which, in 

 1850, could barely graze five thousand sheep, can now be made to 

 carry forty thousand without any danger of overstocking." Pro- 

 fessor Thomas Dwight of the Harvard Medical School discusses 

 " What is Right-handedness ? " Rev. Willard Parsons, manager 

 of the Tribune Fresh- Air Fund, tells the story of its growth and 

 work for fourteen years. From the diaries of Capt. Stockton, 

 United States Navy, and from conversations with him, Robert 

 Gordon Butler tells the story of the remarkable Arctic cruise of 

 the United States steamer "Thetis" in 1889, when she was sent 

 to relieve any vessels of the North Pacific whaling-fleet in dis- 

 tress, to rescue shipwrecked sailors, and to erect a house of refuge 

 at Point Barrow, the northernmost point of Alaska. 



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