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A NOVEL BY THOMAS 
NELSON PAGE 
HE serial story of the year will be a novel 
by Thomas Nelson Page, his first in several 
years, and one in which he has given a new 
and very individual manifestation of the traits 
which have won him his great body of readers. 
Under the title of “John Marvel, Assistant,” he 
has told with simplicity, in the first person, the 
manly story of an average young fellow’s struggle 
of life, with the fine effect of exalting to the place 
of hero in it the man whose unconscious altruism 
and practical Christianity came to be the admira¬ 
tion and chief help of the narrator. 
LETTERS OE GENERAL 
SHERMAN TO HIS 
WIEE AND EAMILY 
A MOST important addition to the biography 
of the great war leader’s. Besides the pic¬ 
ture of the man, his outspoken judgment 
and often remarkable jrrophecies, they supplement 
fornral history in most ^■aluable and interesting 
ways. 
A MIDNIGHT CABINET 
CONFERENCE 
W HICH made an eventful decision at one 
of the crucial periods of the Civil War 
is described in extracts fronr air unpub¬ 
lished diary of Secretary Salmon P. Chase; and 
additional light will be thrown on his relations 
with Lincoln by other passages from the same 
source and from unpublished letters. 
THE GREAT PUBLIC 
SCHOOLS OF ENGLAND 
A NOTABLE article on the great public 
schools of England—Eton, Harrow, Rugby 
and Winchester—by Everett T. Tomlinson. 
The comparisons of English and American condi¬ 
tions are especially interesting. 
A NOTABLE SERIES BY 
MRS. WHARTON 
M rs. WHARTON will have during the 
coming year in the Magazine (not neces¬ 
sarily in consecutive numbers) a series of 
seven or eight stories under the title “Tales of 
Men.” Their originality lies in the fact that not 
a woman appears in any of them, though of coui-se 
indirect e-\ddence of the eternal feminine is not 
wanting. The idea would strongly piciue curiosity 
in any case, but in connection with Mrs. Wharton’s 
powers and brilliant achievements in psychological 
analysis, gi^'es one of the most interesting prospects 
in the literature of the j'ear. 
ENGLAND FROM THE 
AMERICAN POINT 
OF VIEW 
T hree papers on England which will excite 
much discussion by an anonymous author. 
They deal with English charactei’istics, the 
traits that have made the race the virtual rulers 
of a fifth of the world; social aspects of England; 
•and with the importance the English attach to 
“Sport” and the question whether this is a strength 
or weakness. They are frank and outspoken and 
show great keenness of observation. 
PAPERS ON 
PRACTICAL BUSINESS 
QUESTIONS OF 
VITAL INTEREST 
C ONTRIBUTED by Professor Laughlin, chief 
of the Department of Economics in the 
LTniversity of Chicago, one of the foremost 
of American authorities. Among the topics treated 
will be “Government vs. Bank Issues,” “Valuation 
of Railways,” “Social Settlements,” “Socialism,” 
“Abolition of Poverty.” 
a member oi the Engineer Corps to take 
charge of the works. He did so and man¬ 
aged them for two years with great suc¬ 
cess. Philadelphia’s politics were evi¬ 
dently not free then from the rottenness 
which distinguishes them to-day, and the 
following incident while the Colonel was 
in charge of the water bureau is said to 
have been an actual occurrence: On one 
occasion a citizen whose large establish¬ 
ment consumed a great deal of water, 
and who had frequent favors to ask of 
the Water Department, visited the chief’s 
office and found Colonel Ludlow, as 
usual, very polite. This man, before pre¬ 
ferring all his requests, took a bank- 
bill from his pocket and tossed it over to 
the chief, who examined it curiously for 
a second and then spread it upon the desk 
before him. He did not utter a word at 
the moment, but, when his visitor was 
about to go away, said:— 
“Now, my dear sir, what is this for 
holding up the bill. 
“ Oh,that’s to buy cigars for the boys,” 
was the careful reply. 
“Yes,” said Colonel Ludlow; “then I 
suppose that you are fond of the weed 
yourself 
The man said that he enjoyed nothing 
better than a good cigar. 
“Then allow me,” said the colonel, 
suavely, “to insist upon your trying one 
of these,” moving to a secretary and tak¬ 
ing down a box of Henry Clay specials. 
Each gentleman took a cigar and bit 
off the end. Then, with a careless ges¬ 
ture, Colonel Ludlow rolled up the fifty- 
dollar bill into a paper lighter, reached 
up to the gas, allowed it to become 
thoroughly ignited, and slowly lit his own 
cigar. Every one knows that, to light 
your own weed first is a good test of 
politeness. It comes from the Erench, 
who very sagely reason that what¬ 
ever fumes or gases are generated in 
lighting will be absorbed into the first 
cigar. 
This done, the colonel turned with an 
easy and polite motion and said, “ Permit 
me,” and held the blazing bill under the 
nose and up to the cigar of his amazed 
and startled visitor, whose eyes had now 
become almost as big as dinner plates. 
With two or three gasping inhalations he 
managed to get a light. Pie kept his eyes 
upon the bill until it had burned to the 
very fingers which held it. Colonel Lud¬ 
low watched its last expiring spark, as he 
idly allowed the smoke of his cigar to 
escape from his lips. When the bank- 
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