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■ — The question of what to cook for young children, and how to 

 ■cook it, is given considerable prominence in the May number of 

 Babyhood, which contains an article on the subject, the first of a 

 -series. The number contains also an article on constipation, by Dr. 

 John Doming, which is designed to answer the surprisingly large 

 -number of questions concerning this widespread trouble of infancy 

 that are constantly being addressed to the medical editor of Baby- 

 Jiood. A new feature of decided educational value is the introduc- 

 tion of a department of " Botany for the Little Ones," showing how 

 the study of plant-life may be rendered fascinating to the youngest 

 <;hildren. The mothers themselves contribute to the " Parliam.ent " 

 an unusually large number of interesting letters on such topics as 

 ■" Dress Reform and Physical Improvement," " Kill or Cure Meth- 

 ods," " Ways and Means at the Table," " An Effectual Method of 

 Subduing Restlessness," " Pastimes in Travelling with Children," 

 etc. 



— "People I've Smiled With, or. Recollections of a Merry Little 

 Life," is the happy title of Marshall P. Wilder's forthcoming book 

 ■which Messrs. Cassell & Co. will publish within a few weeks. 

 Everybody knows Marshall Wilder, and everybody likes him and 

 -admires the plucky fight he has made against physical odds. He 

 o-ets an unusual amount of pleasure out of life, and gives a great 

 ■deal to other people too. He has a sunny disposition, and he 

 knows how to make people laugh. The consequence is, that he is 

 in constant demand for public halls and private houses ; and he has 

 ■not only made a lot of money, but he has made hosts of friends. 

 In this country he counts among them the late Gen. Grant, Ex- 

 President Cleveland, the late H. W. Beecher, Gen. Sherman, James 

 G. Blaine, Gen. Horace Porter, Chauncey M. Depew, and scores of 

 ■others. In England he hobnobbed with the " swells " from the 



Prince of Wales down the list. All of these he serves up in his 

 'kindly way as " People I've Smiled With." 



Early in June, Longmans, Green, & Co. will issue in New 



York the first number of The New Review, an English monthly 

 ■started by Mr. Archibald Grove, a young O.xford man. In the 

 strength of its articles and in the reputation of its contributors, it 

 lis to rival the Niiieieetith Century, while its low price will put it 

 within reach of a far wider public. Three Americans — Lady 

 Randolph Churchill, Mr. Henry George, and Mr. Henry James — 

 .are among the contributors to the first number. 



— The Nineteenth Ce7itury for May (New York, Leonard Scott 

 Publication Company, 29 Park Row) more than retains the high 

 place this review has made for itself. The reader will doubtless 

 -turn first to Dr. Wace's reply to Professor Huxley's rejoinder on 

 -agnosticism in the April number, in which he emphasizes the posi- 

 tion he took in his previous paper, and takes Professor Huxley to task 

 for some of his misstatements. The Bishop of Peterborough also 

 has a brief word to say on the same subject. Lord Armstrong re- 

 views the "New Naval Programme," recently adopted in England, 

 which he considers of a more systematic and business-like char- 

 acter than any similar document previously emanating from the 

 admiralty. Professor Edward Dicey has a paper on the " Lesson of 

 Birmingham," in which he reviews the meaning of the late election 

 in that city. The Countess of Jersey has a pleasant paper on the 

 " Hindu at Home," describing the daily life of the Hindus. Miss 

 ■'Clementina Black summarizes a remarkable speech by a working- 

 woman at the formation of a trades-union in Liverpool. Professor 

 H. Geffcken, who achieved notoriety in connection with the publi- 

 ■cation of the Emperor Frederick's diary, and who has the subject 

 joi special persecution by Prince Bismarck, contributes a paper on 

 ■" Church and State in Germany," m which he makes an eloquent 

 plea for the restoration of the independence of the Evangelical 

 Church. An especially timely paper is a story of a visit by Ed- 

 ward Clifford to .Father Damien and the lepers, whose recent 



-death has concentrated public attention upon his heroic work in the 

 Sandwich Islands. Frederick Marshall writes on " Society and 

 Democracy in France," depicting some of the later changes in 

 French social growth. Frederick Greenwood discusses " Misery in 

 Great Cities," comparing the relative advantages of city and coun- 

 try life, and suggesting remedies for the alleviation of the condition 



■of the working-people. Frederic Harrison reviews the results of 

 the Parnell trial as affecting the cause of home rule, which is, he 



says, " by far the largest, most momentous, and most complex 

 question which has ever divided England since the Revolution." The 

 number concludes with a paper by Mr. Gladstone, entitled " Italy 

 in 1888-89," ill which he records the observations made in his recent 

 visit to that country. Mr. Gladstone had not visited Naples for 

 twenty-nine years, and is therefore able to note astonishing changes. 

 He reviews the results of the Italian revolution, and considers the 

 present condition of the country both internally and as a European 

 power. 



— When Mr. Bright had to make a great speech, says the Con- 

 te?nporary Review, he brooded over it day after day, but he did 

 not care to don all his preparation at his desk or in solitude. As 

 arguments and illustrations occurred to him, he liked to try their 

 effect by talking them over with his friends ; and when he was at 

 home, if nobody else was within reach, he talked them over with 

 his gardener. The speech took shape in conversation. Then he 

 made the notes which he intended to use when the speech was de- 

 livered. He gave an account of these notes in a letter, in which he 

 said, " As to modes of preparation for speech-making, it seems to 

 me that every man would readily discover what suits him best. To 

 write speeches, and then to commit them to memory is, as you 

 term it, a double slavery, which I could not bear. To speak with- 

 out preparation, especially on great and solemn topics, is rashness, 

 and cannot be recommended. When I intend to speak on any 

 thing that seems to me important, I consider what it is that I wish 

 to impress upon my audience. I do not write my facts or my argu- 

 ments, but make notes on two or three or four slips of paper, giv- 

 ing the line of argument, and the facts, as they occur to my mind, 

 and I leave the words to come at call while I am speaking. There 

 are occasionally short passages which, for accuracy, I may write 

 down, as sometimes also, almost invariably, the concluding words 

 or sentences may be written. This is very nearly all I can say on 

 this question. The advantage of this plan is, that, while it leaves 

 a certain and sufficient freedom to the speaker, it keeps him within 

 the main lines of the original plan upon which the speech was 

 framed ; and what he says, therefore, is more likely to be compact, 

 and not wandering and diffuse." It was his habit, when he spoke 

 on the platform, to place his notes on the brim of his hat, which 

 stood on the table before him. They were written on half-sheets 

 of note-paper. Extracts of more than three or four lines in length 

 which he intended to quote in support of his statements were usu- 

 ally written on similar half-sheets, separately numbered, and were 

 carefully placed on the table by the side of the hat. His annual 

 speeches to his constituents rarely extended over less than an hour ; 

 and they as rarely exceeded an hour and five minutes. But the 

 sheets of notes varied greatly in number : sometimes he had only 

 four or five, sometimes he had eight or nine, and I think that occa- 

 sionally he had still more. 



— Lee & Shepard Jiave just ready " Incidents of a Collector's 

 Rambles," by Sherman F. Denton of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 — a volume of travel by a keen observer of nature, and a graphic 

 story-teller, illustrated with views and pictures of strange people 

 and things seen in the far-off countries which he has visited ; 

 " Burgoyne's Invasion of 1777," with an outline sketch of the 

 American invasion of Canada, 1775-76, by Samuel Adams Drake, 

 with maps, portrait, and illustrations, — the first of a contemplated 

 series of decisive events in American history, designed as a text- 

 book for supplemetary reading in schools and for general reading ; 

 " Every-Day Business," notes on its practical details, arranged for 

 young people by M. S. Emery; and "Observation Lessons," — a 

 manual for teachers, presenting practical methods of teaching 

 elementary science to the young. — by Louisa P. Hopkins, of Boston 

 public schools. 



— Little, Brown, & Co. have just ready the American edition of 

 " A Complete Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert 

 Burns," compiled and edited by J. B. Reid. 



— Harper's Weekly of last week contains an eight-page supple- 

 ment with an article on " Prehistoric Arizona," by Col. R. J. Hin- 

 ton, illustrated by Harry Fenn. 



— D. Appleton & Co will publish early in the summer, "Days 

 Out of Doors," by Dr. Charles C. Abbott, whose "Naturalist's 

 Rambles about Home" is so well known. 



