C. O. PERRIN, President of the College of Commerce of Buffalo, N. Y., whose portrait appears on the preceding page, is not a poet, but has achieved distinction in his great field of labor as President of the largest and most successful Commercial College and Shorthand Institute in the United States. Although comparatively a young man, the magnitude of his undertakings and the means already attained is far beyond his years if we are to judge by the average successful man as our guide. A little more than three years ago Prof. Perrin laid the foundation for the College of Commerce, for which he saw there was much need. From the humble beginning his school has so rapidly increased in numbers that it has been necessary to add one story after another until the present time he occupies three floors of the elegant Jewett Block at 327 Washington Street, utilizing for school rooms eighteen thousand square feet of floor space, and during the month of February had an enrollment of nine hundred and four students. This is a remarkable showing, to say the least, and when we call the attention of our readers to this great school for the practical training and education of the young men and women who are to occupy positions of trust and responsibility, we do so with honest pride, believing our readers will be interested in knowing such a school is located in the Queen City of the Lakes. Space will not admit of going into details pertaining to the management and causes resulting in such phenomenal and unprecedented success, but we will take the opportunity of doing so at another time. A few brief points, however, will give a clew to these facts in question. The Faculty is composed of gentlemen and ladies all of whom are specialists in their several departments of work; they have been wisely selected because of their special fitness, experience and moral worth, in teaching, guiding and directing these young men and women in the important work before them. Students of all ages, from fifteen to fifty years, are admitted, and during the summer months special inducements are held out to teachers in the Commercial or Bookkeeping, Shorthand and Typewriting, English, Art, Drawing, and Music Departments. The Correspondence Course in Shorthand, as conducted by Prof. Perrin, is novel and very interesting. He has three hundred students who are successfully mastering the art of the New Rapid system of Shorthand through the medium of the mails. Among this large class are Lawyers, Doctors, Editors, Teachers, School Principals, Students in public and private schools, Bookkeepers, and many others who are preparing for the practical relations of life. The offices and college rooms are spacious and elegantly furnished, the walls and ceilings throughout the entire building are frescoed a warm beautiful tint, and the desks are of modern construction and adapted for the special department for which they were designed. In his private office the President is surrounded with about ten stenographers, whose nimble fingers are recording answers to the large number of inquiries made daily concerning this school; also the correction of lessons of correspondents with suggestions for a more thorough mastery of this beautiful system of Shorthand. A visit to his school will repay any one who is interested in educational matters. THE MAGAZINE OF POETRY A QUARTERLY REVIEW ILLUSTRATED OCTOBER 1891 CHARLES WELLS MOULTON BUFFALO N Y ELLA DIETZ CLYMER LUCY M. HEWLINGS. AUGUSTUS A. COLEMAN. JULIA A. F. CARNEY. With portrait by Worden, Boston, Mass. WILLIAM T. McAUSLANE With portrait by H. B. Shaeffer, Bellefonte, Pa. LAURA S. R. McCARTHY With portrait by N. H. Reed, Santa Barbara, Cal. J. WILLIAM LLOYD. With portrait by Cooper, Westminster, Md. JAMES SUMNER DRAPER With portrait by A. P. Drew, Dover, N. H. IDA MAY DAVIS With portrait by Marceau & Power, Indianapolis, Ind. AMOS BRYANT RUSSELL With portrait. EUGENE C. DOLSON With portrait by H. B. Lindsley, Auburn, N. Y. SINGLE POEMS. CURRENT POEMS Orin Root Maurice Francis Eagan R. N. Webster. John Clark Ridpath Celia H. Marsh. Robert McIntyre 412 Marion E. Clapp .417 . 419 423 Nettie Leila Michel .425 . 429 Alma Calder Johnston I. Arthur King Frances E. Willard Emma Huntington Nason. 473 475 TERMS.-$2.00 a year in advance; 50 cents a number. Foreign, nine shillings. 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