17 JANUARY 1914, page 22

A Confederate Girl's Diary.*

THE American Civil War yielded less written evidence by noncombatants as to the experiences and conditions of those terrible years than might have been expected. At all events......

Good And Bad Trade.*

TEE phenomena known as " trade fluctuations" seem to have beset the development of industry since the time when exchange by means of " tokens " began to take the place of the......

Alexander Agassiz.*

WHEN Alexander Agaesiz died three years ago at the age of seventy-four, his friend Henry Adams wrote: " We did one first-rate work when we produced him, and I do • Letter. ond......