The Irrigation Age (Volume 8)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ... Mr. Kipling gives us a further chabter from the adventuresof Stalky & Co.,one that shows those heroes in quite a new role; and there are several other good short stories in the number. THE FORUM. To say that the March number is an unusually good one is great praise, as this publication is one of such high order that each issue ia full of timely and interesting articles by writers of ability and experience. Mark Twain contributes an article full of his old-time humor. Taking for his text Diplomatic Pay and Clothes, he discourses, in terms of withering satire, on the meagreness of the stipends which we pay to our diplomatic representatives abroad. He also ridicules, in his unique style of pleasantry, the absence of an official court dress, which, unless our minister happen to have been in the arny or navv, compels him to attend court and public functions, even at seven in the morning, in that same old funny swallowtail. It is a night-dress and a night-dress only, --a night-shirt is not more so. Yet when our representative makes an official visit in the morning, he is obliged to go in that night-dress. It makes the very cab horses laugh. A Lost Eden--Cuba is the expressive title of an article by Dr. Felix L. Oswald. The coasts of Cuba, he says, seem to to nave been constructed for the special convenience of filibustering expeditious. It will be many years before the desperadoes and outlaws of Cuba become peaceful, law-abiding citizens and, despite the fact that the undulations of the coast-plain will soon resemble a wide-spread sea of verdure, the writer thinks for the interests of American civilization it would perhaps have been better if, like the lost Atlantis, the whole...