People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1894 — The Midwinter Arena. [ARTICLE]

The Midwinter Arena.

Thdf>bruary Arena is another mammoth number of the great progressive Review, it contains 164 pages and filled with able pajiers, covering a wide range of topics of special interest to wide awake thinkers and earnest reformers. The qjWuiug paper will interest all k&ers of Robert Browning persons who profound roHghms thought"’ It is from the pen of Rev. M. J. Savage, and is entitled “Religious Thought in Browning's Poetry.” A fine portrait of tije poet forms the frontispiece of this issue. “The Relation of the Land Question to Other Reforms,'’ by J. H. Belfengee is a thoughtful paper in The Arena Series on the Land Question. “The New Bible,’’ by Washington Gladden, D. D.. is a very valuable contribution to the literature of Higher Criticism. A feature of this number is a profusely illustrated Symposium on “Rj. tional Dress for Women,” by

number of eminent America women. Dr. Heinrich Hensodt's series of papers on “Indian Oc cultism” grows more and mor absorbingly interesting with each issue. In this number the German scientist occupies twenty pages recounting wonderful phenomena which he witnessed in India during his ten years so journ in that far east. A very in teresting, practical paper is from the pen of Rev. Hiram Vrooman, of Baltimore, on “The Organization of the Moral Forces.” It is in the line of a movement the Arena has originated and is pushing to awaken to conscience of the people and unite moral work ers for practical progress. Congressman Davis discusses “Honest and dishonest money.” The fasinating series of philosophical by Stinson Zarvis on “The Ascent of life” is continued. Tne Editor contributes two strik ing editorials; the first is entitled ‘They Have Fallen into the Wine-Press, or illustrations of the Onward March of Uninvited Poverty;” the second is a strong argument against medical monopoly. Among the eminent thinkers who review the Books or the Day in this issue of The Arena are, Rev. M. J. Savage, Helen Campbell, Rabbi Solomon Schindler, Rev. Samuel D. Ful ler, Elbert Hubbard,and the Editor. The publishers announce that The Arena'will henceforth be enlarged to 144 pages instead of 128 as heretofore. This will make it the largest monthly Review published. The Chicago Express is one of the papers you need during this coming year.