THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS Edited by ALBERT SHAW. THE DECEMBER NUMBER CONTAINS: JOHN SHERMAN'S STORY OF HIS OWN CAREER. President E. Benjamin Andrews makes an extended review of Senator Sherman's notable forthcoming volume, "Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate, and Cabinet," and quotes from it through sixteen pages. Illustrated with many pictures of Senator Sherman and his surroundings. A CHARACTER SKETCH OF HERBERT SPENCER. BY ONE WHO KNOWS HIM. With a Noble Portrait. THE CARTOON IN POLITICS. A HISTORY OF THE NEW YORK CAMPAIGN IN OUTLINE. Mr. Finley groups together a score of the notable journalistic cartoons which were inspired by the justended New York campaign with such a chronological arrangement as, with his running comment, records in the most quaint and forcible way the salient events and personalities of the ante-election months. THE VENEZUELAN QUESTION. BY W. L. SCRUGGS. The above are merely the contributed articles of this number. 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OR several years past the Hamburg-American Line has arranged cruises at certain seasons, placing at the disposal of travellers one of its floating palaces, and affording them all the comforts and luxuries of modern life. These cruises have become so popular with the American travelling public that the Company has made them a permanent feature of its service. THE FIRST CRUISE will be by the Twin-Screw Express Steamer FÜRST BISMARCK, Captain Albers, sailing from New York January 28, 1896, to MADEIRA, the MEDITERRANEAN, and the ORIENT. Touching at Madeira, Gibraltar, Algiers, Genoa, Villefranche (Nice), Tunis, Alexandria (Cairo and Pyramids), Jaffa (Jerusalem), Smyrna, Constantinople, Athens, Malta, Messina, Palermo, Naples, Genoa, and return to New York. The cruise from New York to the Orient and return to New York will occupy about ten weeks. 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