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COSMOPOLITAN.The Cosmopolitan for March is a very good magazine. It contains enough solid and instructive reading for a month, with just enough fiction and poetry scattered through it to make a pleasant variety. For the most part the illustrations are excellent, the only ones to criticise are those in "Conquered," which are stiff and rather unnatural. The list of contributors alone is enough to insure an unusually good number, for among them are E. E. Hale, Frank Dempster Sherman, Brander Matthews, and W. D. Howells. The leading article of the number is "Berlin" by Friedrich Spielhagen. The most prominent feature...
...says "The management is making great effort to secure entries from the leading American and English Universities, and hopes for success. The regatta will probably take place in August, late enough to allow Harvard, Yale, Cornell, and the University of Pennsylvania crews to recuperate after their annual engagements." The fiction and the poetry of the number are of very much the same nature as usual...
...happens fiction is not otherwise represented in this number unless one includes Elizabeth Bellamy's clever sketch of negro life, called "Mom Cely's Wonderful Luck." Edward Everett Hale's first paper on "My College Days" is written with much brightness, and gives an interesting account of Harvard College in the days of President Quincy, abounding in reminiscences of well-known students and professors. Another paper of reminiscent interest is a charming essay by Mr. H. C. Merwin, "On Growing Old;" while Dr. William Henry Furness offers some "Random Reminiscences of Emerson," which throw new light on the personality...
...rather rambling article on the conditions which surround a Florentine artist, a careful paper with which Frederic Crowninshield concludes his "Impressions of a Decorator in Rome," another instalment of Mrs. Burnett's "The one I knew best of all," two pieces of fiction "To her" and "How the Battle was Lost," and finally a pair of sonnets, make up the rest of this not very brilliant number...
...duty to do this or that? The difference between truth and falsehood is immeasurable; one can't take an intermediate stand. A mother's love is limitless; it gives all and lasts forever. Was there not a divine element in the death of Sydney Carleton, and though but fiction, what a lesson it should teach us! Should we not in our lives include divine elements? Emerson well phrased it in the following aphorisom: "Don't leave the sky out of your landscape," During the service the choir sang the following anthems: "In Thee, O, Lord," Tours; Solo from "Prodigal...