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The editor of the North American Review, in his effort to be non-partisan, evidently believes in Bacon's advice concerning physicians: "Take one of a middle temper; or, if it may not be found in one man, combine two of either sort." Three Democratic and three Republican Congressmen therefore contribute to the symposium on "What Congress Has Done." The Republicans, McKinley, Lodge and Dalzell, are unanimous in saying that the last session has done wonders; the Democrats are as unanimous in deciding that Congress has done a great many things it ought not to have done and left undone a great many things which it ought to have done.
Other political article deal with "Scottish Politics," by the Marquis of Lorne, the "London Police," by ex-Commissioner James Monro, "Election Methods in the South," by Collector Robert Smalls, of Beanfort, S. C., and "Relief for the Supreme Court," by Justice Strong.
Mr. G. P. A. Healy, who has in his life time probably painted more portraits of distinguished persons than any other living artist, contributes a sequel to his "Crowns and Coronels" of last month to describe his experiences with General Jackson and Henry Clay.
Walt Whitman writes on "Old Poets." His article is so thoroughly decorated with parentheses that its appearance is as eccentric as a page of the venerable bard's former "barbaric yawp."
Another article deserving mention is Gail Hamilton's "Ladies of the Last Caesar," written in a matter of fact way rather than with the spiciness which characterizes her work.
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