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CONTENTS FOR MARCH, 1899.

Vol. XLVII.— No. 5.

Cover Centre-piece in Colors by

Warren B. Davis.

FULL-PAGE DRAWING by A. B. Wenzell, illustrating "THE
NIHILIST ON THE NEVA".

SPRING'S AWAKENING. Poem..

THE NICARAGUA CANAL...

Whole No., 279.

.Frontispiece

449

.E. A. Fletcher...

451

Illustrated from photographs and plans, by permission of
the Maritime Canal Company.

THE NIHILIST ON THE NEVA. Story.
Illustrated by A. B. Wenzell. (Frontispiece).

QUEEN WILHELMINA, AND WOMEN'S WORK IN

HOLLAND

Illustrated from photographs, and drawing by M. F.
Eaton.

Mary J. Holmes

467

S. M. D'Engelbronner....... 473

THE HEAD AND FRONT OF MORMON OFFENDING.. Mrs. Frank Leslie...
Illustrated from photographs, and drawings by Frank
Adams and M. F. Eaton.

485

APRIL BLOOM. By the author of "The Pride of Jennico."
Chapters XVII.-XX............

SALOME. Fine Art Reproduction..

From the painting by Jules Lefebvre.

A BAVARIAN CHILD. Fine Art Reproduction.
From the painting by Adolf Schlabitz.

AN IRISH APOLLO PIPING TO THE GRACES. Fine
Art Reproduction. From the painting by Howard Helmick....

SKETCHING FROM NATURE.

CAMPAIGNING WITH GOMEZ. Quintin Bandera's Ori-Thomas R. Dawley, Jr...... 536
entales-Last Days in Camp, and Return to Havana..
Illustrated from photographs by the author.

A SKEIN OF SILK..

Illustrated from photographs.

W. C. Kitchin....

WOMEN IN WALL STREET. (American Woman in Mrs. Finley Anderson......
Action Series, V.) With Portrait..

MARGINALIA-Including: "An Interview," by BERNICE
V. ROGERS; and "Rhyme and Rhyming," by R. K.
MUNKITTRICK.

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OF MORMON OFFENDING.

HEN Utah became one of the United States, with all their dignities and privileges, it was supposed and promised that the State had wiped out the foul blot of polygamy which had soiled the Territory. The recent election of Mr. B. H. Roberts to the council halls of the nation as one of the representatives from Utah, and his chivalrous decision to stand by the marriage tie to the three wives of his bosom, has revived alike interest and indignation in the Mormon question, and it remains to be seen whether or not its representative, as well

as that of Utah, will be allowed a place in Congress.

All this has made me reminiscent, and I think at this juncture that the views of some of the Mormon women of the best social position, gathered some years ago, cannot but be interesting.

A visit to Utah with my husband, the late Frank Leslie, gave me great facilities to penetrate some Mormon interiors-a thing at that time almost impossible and I had the last interview with the head and front of Mormon offending, Brigham Young. It was just before his death, and a deputation of journalists had but recently made him a visit; and in spite of his efforts to make them see his religion through his spectacles, they had set things down in a noted New York newspaper in a manner not only highly displeasing to the patriarch, but in a way which, it was said, accelerated his death. Be that as it may, it required considerable influence to induce him even to receive our party at all, and when he did so, making his illness a pretext, he intended the function to be a mere presentation-a shake of the hand and good-by.

We were quite a large party, and sallied forth to view the City of the Saints with the same odd sort of excitement and vague expectation one must