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Parent Issue
Day
31
Month
January
Year
1895
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Public Domain
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Dr. Parkhupflt hasentered into a con,ract with The Ladies' Home Journal tv which he will practically become a ■egular editorial contributor to that aagazine for some time. ïhe groat S"ew York preacher says that he has for i long time past been desirous of saying ome very necessary thinys to women, Ind ho now announces that he will say hem tnrough these articles. - TheCuris Pub) Co., Phila., Pa. A. brief bistory of public health work n this country, particularly of its pigin in Massachusetts, will b; given n the January Popular Science Monthy. by Mrs. H. M. Plunkett, under the itle "Twenty-iive Years of Prove ntive ledicinq. The value of the article is ncreased by statistics and diagrams. - ). Appleton & Co.,; New York. Hiram Maxim, the inventor, has ritten for The Century the full story f his experiments in aerial navigation 3 date, and it will appear in the Jan ary number, accompanied by plans nd photographs. Mr. Maxim is eoninced that he is on the right track, nd that the problem of aerial navagaation will be solvei very soon. - The entury Co., New York. Two maps of most unusual interest, om the report of the Tenement House ommission, are reproduced in Harir'a Weekly for January 19th. Of íese maps, the first shows the density Í population, by wards, in New York ity in 1S94 - one district being unfoi - inately distinguishei by a density of opulation greater than oan be found i any other city in the world. The cond map shows the relative proporons of different nationalities - the orman element being the largest, the ish next. Native Americans of En üsh descent are scarcely in the race Harper & Bros., New York. Professor Albert Bushnell Hart, of arvard, has writtea for the January imber of The Forum a ve.'y thoughtil and timely articla entitled "Are ur Moral Standards Shifting?" Also aptain Henry King, Editor of the St crnis ','Globe-Democrat." has a mo. t teresting article on "The Pay and ank of Journaliste," telling what urnalists are paid in the principal ws-centres of the United States, con j iring jurnalism as a career with othcr ifeers, and briefly sketching tl e nderful growth of newspapers in this untry since their first beginning in 90. Scribner's Magazine for January bc; ns the XVIII volume and gives a rotaste of a number of the important ojects which are to characterize the ar. Among the most attractive of ese is the series of papers by Kobe. t i-ant on "The Art of Living," written a semi-satirical but very practi ;al in, and dealing with the every-day oblems of living in the humorous a; cl rewd manner that made his "lieflei; ons of a Married Man'1 one of tl e ost popular seriáis ever published in is magazine. In this number Mr. rant begins with a discussion of 'the ïestion of "Income," showing what e average man can do with $2,200 year and with $10,000. The sockl itire of the papers exactly adapts em to the clever peneil of Charles ana Gibson. - Chas. Scribner's Sons, Bw York. A new volume. With the first num;r in January, Littell's Living Age iters upon its two hundred and fourth olume. The opening issues of the iw year will contain, with otbers, valable and timely articles in science, ilitics, biography, theology and genal literature, f rom the pens of Prince ropotkin, the Duke of Argyll, (Bacon id Huxley), Max Muller, the Marquis Salisbury, Lord Hobhouse, (The Pcition of the House of ' Lords), Edmund osse, Lord Ebrington, (Conversations ith Napoleon at Elba), Sidney Low, f the House of Commons were Abolish1?), Patchett Martin, W. M. Conway ld other loading writers; togethir ith papera of interest by M. Res avis, Stephen Gwynn, etc, etc. ; in ction, the choicest short stories by the est authors. - Little & Co., Boston, are ie publishers.

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