This excellent magazine tells the story of many charities. Its chief aim is to encourage that helpfulness which enables others to help themselves.
In the matter of literary style, every line might be written by the editor, Edward Everett Hale; and nearly every writer seems to imitate his objectionable features,—his jerkiness and disconnectedness, for example,—rather than his better points.
Three Men of Wallowa—three Indians, who voluntarily perished on the White Man's scaffold, to save their tribe from destruction by United States troops—is not only a pathetic story, but one which (if true) sadly condemns our Government.
In the editor's own writings, he does not appear at his best,— in Mr. Tangier's Vacation, for instance; yet there is the ring in it of this busy man's wonderful genius.
Rev. A. J. Rich tells the story of the Mignonette Mission in Fall River. Are all the reports genuine, about the Harry Wadsworth Clubs, and Ten Times One is Ten? We never feel quite sure about it.
