EDITORIAL NOTES. 



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The North American Review for March can 

 noi fail to be of unusual value and interest to all 

 who desire clearly to understand all the pres- 

 ent important phases of American politics, as is 

 evidenced by the following table of contents : 

 The Third Term — Reasons against it, by 

 Judge J. S. Black; The Third Term— Rea- 

 sons for it, by E. W. Stoughton ; The Com- 

 munism of a Discriminating Income Tax, by 

 David A. Wells; Civil-Service Reform, by 

 Henry W. Bellows, D.D.; Our Political Dan- 

 gers, by Professor Simon Newcomb; Mr. 

 Froude's Historical Method, by the Right 

 Rev. J. L. Spalding, D.D., Bishop of Peoria. 

 Recent Biography — I. Life and Works of 

 Gilbert Stuart; II. The Letters of Charles 

 Dickens ; III. Memoirs of Madame de Re- 

 musat — by Eugene L. Didier. 



The December number began the sixtieth 

 volume of Harper's Magazine. The serial 

 novels — White Wings, by William Black, 

 and Mary Anerley, by R. D. Blackmore — are 

 continued. The April number will contain 

 the first of two papers on Music and Musicians 

 in England, by Mrs. John Lillie, illustrated 

 with portraits, and with drawings by Abbey, 

 to which is added an engraving from L. Al- 

 ma Tadema's portrait of Georg Henschel; 

 Some Pennsylvania Nooks (including the 

 neigborhood of Valley Forge), by Mrs. Ella 

 Rodman Church, with illustrations by Pyle ; 

 La Villa Real de Santa Fe, by Ernest Inger- 

 soll, with illustrations by Harrison Mills ; An 

 Irish Fishing Village, written and illustrated 



by J. L. Cloud ; Luca della Robbia and his 

 School, by E. D. R. Bianciardi, beautifully 

 illustrated ; The Swiss Rhine, by S. H. M. 

 Byers, with illustrations ; Home Studies of 

 Nature, by Mary Treat, with illustrations by 

 J. C. Beard ; History of Bible Illustration, by 

 William C. Prime (illustrated) ; a thrilling 

 poem, entitled Shipwrecked, translated from 

 the French by E. W. Latimer, with two illus- 

 trations by Reinhart; a valuable and suggest- 

 ive paper, by E. H. Derby, on The Navy of 

 the United States ; short stories by Phoebe 

 Yates Pember and Virginia W. Johnson ; and 

 other interesting matter. 



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