11 MARCH 1893, Page 24

One of the most curious magazines of the day is

surely the Globe Quarterly Review of Literature, Society, Religion, Art, and

Politics. It is published in Chicago, and is conducted and apparently, also, is mainly written by Mr. W. H, Thorne, an eccentric, energetic, and versatile writer, who has, we learn from himself, recently " verted" to Roman Catholicism, Here, among other things, he criticises Tennyson, Whittier, and Ingersolly, discovers Whitman to be "a humbug," and gives a study of eminent faces in which there is not a little truth put in a harum- scarum way. Altogether, this magazine is a sign of the times in America, and is in parts provokingly readable.