THE CENTURY.

The January number of the Century is very strong in papers of out-of-the-way adventure or travel told from personal experience. One of them is the concluding paper of Mrs. Pennell's Account of her adventures among the Austrian gispsies, another is Miss Alice C. Fletcher's "Personal Studies of Indian Life" setting forth the "Politics and Pipe-Dancing" of the tribe of Omaha Indians, and a third is two papers on "The Great Wall of China" giving good pictures in text and illustration of that wonderful wall. Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps has an interesting article on Whittier, with a portrait of the poet for the frontispiece. The article is full of a number of amusing anecdotes and many extracts from his letters. One anecdote characteristic of the man is as follows: "Once he was found in the library of a Boston friend, silent and sad, in a mood not usual to him Seeking to cheer him, his hostess ventured some quiet words reminding him of the deep personal affection in which he was held the wide world over. His morning mail lay beside him. She pointed to the pile of grateful and adoring letters. 'Ahyes,' he said, 'but they say Tennyson has written a perfect poem." Millet's early life - his parents and birth, his childhood and the development of his artistic temperament - is told in an interesting article by Pierre Millet, his younger brother. With this paper is an engraving by Closson of Millet's painting "The Sheep-Shearers." At intervals for the last few years the Century has been calling attention to the neglect of the Yosemite Valley Commissioners to employ exact supervision in the care of the floor of the Valley. There is a long editorial review in this number of the situation with quotations from the official report of an agent of the Interior Department. It argues strongly in favor of receding the Valley to the nation. Washington Gladden's sketch of the "Cosmopolis City Club" showing why and how the club was organized is an article of public interest, as are also further passages from the correspondence of General and Senator Sherman dealing with the war and a group of contributions relating to The Kindergarten Movement." In the series of "Notable Women" there is a sketch, with a portrait of Dorothea Dix, by Mary S. Robinson. Among the poets of the number are Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Louise Guiney and Louise Chandler Moulton.