EDITORIAL NOTES. 
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The American Trade- journal ^ of St. Louis, 
edited by Major F. F. Hilder, has spent a 
large sum of money in preparing a bird's-eye 
view of the Mississippi River, from the Mis- 
souri to the Gulf of Mexico, which is beautiful- 
ly executed and surprisingly correct. It gives 
all the windings of the river, the towns and 
villages, bayous, lakes, tributaries, etc., with 
the greatest accuracy, and cannot fail to be 
of great value to all persons interested either 
in the geography or the commerce of the 
great valley. 
The publishers of The Art Interchange have 
decided to issue an eight-page extra on May 
22d, thirteen columns of which will be given 
up to Notes, Queries and Answers, treating, 
among other subjects, on Artistic Furnish- 
ishings, Embroidering, Repousse Work, Wood 
Carving, Decorative Oil Painting, Stenciling, 
Painting on China, and Leather Work. This 
department is of great practical benefit to all 
interested in Art. The Extra will be furn- 
ished free to regular subscribers of The Art 
Interchange, and can be bought by others 
through news companies for ten cents, or by 
addressing The Art Interchange, 140 Nassau 
St., New York. 
The June number of the North American 
Review opens with an article by Joseph Nim- 
mo, Jr., Chief of the Treasury Bureau ot 
Statistics, on American Manufacturing Inter- 
est's, in which is given a singularly full and 
instructive historical sketch of the rise and 
progress of manufactures in the UnitedStates, 
together with a very effective presentation of 
their present condition, and of the agency of 
tariff" legislation in promoting diversified in- 
dustries and encouraging the inventive genius 
of the people. Should this author's advocacy 
of protective legislation prove distasteful, the 
reader finds the needed corrective in an arti- 
cle by the Hon. Wm. M. Springer, on Inci- 
dental Taxation, which is an argument for 
Free-Trade. D. C. Oilman, President of 
Johns Hopkins University, writes of the 
Present Aspects of College Training, as affect- 
ed by the increase of wealth and luxury, the 
development of natural science, and the influ- 
ence of a larger religious liberty. Edward 
Self presents some weighty considerations on 
the Abuse of Citizenship, as exhibited in the 
machinations of the dynamitists against a 
friendly power, in disregard of the obliga- 
tions of American neutrality. Prof. Isaac L. 
Rice criticises some of Herbert Spencer's 
Facts and Inferences, in social and political 
science, and Christine Nilsson contributes A 
Few Words about Public Singing. Finally, 
there is a symposium on The Moral Influence 
of the Drama, the participants being, on the 
one side, the Rev. Dr. J. M. Buckley, well 
known as an opponent of the stage, and on 
the other, John Gilbert, the actor; A. M. 
Palmer, theatrical manager ; and William 
Winter, dramatic critic. 
Number 44 of the Humboldt Library is de- 
voted to a republication of Part I of The 
Dawn of History, an introduction to prehis- 
toric study, edited by C. F. Keary, M. A., of 
the British Museum; octavo, pp. 46, 15c. 
Harper's Magazine for June is an un- 
usually varied number, profusely and beauti- 
fully illustrated. The frontispiece (illustrat- 
ing " Faustus" — a poem by S. S. Conant), is 
from a drawing by E. A. Abbey. Lambeth 
Palace: "Ye Archbishop's Inne," — Zadel 
Barues Gustapson, (with ten illustrations). 
The Folding. A Poem — Annie Fields. The 
Hundred Years' War.— T. W. Higginson, 
(with seven illustrations), A Castle in 
Spain. A Novel. Part II, (with four illus- 
trations by Abbey). Indian Arts in Metal 
and Wood. — J. L. Kipling, (with fourteen 
illustrations. On the Edge of the Marsh. A 
Poem. — Miss A. A. Bassett. The Home of 
Hiawatha, — Ernest IngersoU, (with twelve 
illustrations). Sunlight Mysteries — William 
C. Wyckoff, (with nine illustrations). Rus. 
A Sketch. — Charles Reade. Unuttered. A 
Poem. — ^John B. Tabb. The Romanoffs. 
Part I. — H. Sutherland Edwards, (with thir- 
teen portraits. Death in the sky, A Poem. 
— George Edgar Montgomery. Faustus. A 
Poem. — S. S. Conant. Carlsbad Waters. — 
Titus Munson Coan, M. D. The Mount of 
Sorrow. — Harriet Prescott Spofford. An 
Esthetic Idea. A Story. — A Working-Girl. 
