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the serial story is timely, treating, as it does, of war times-those of the Revolution. Series of illustrated

articles on important subjects form a leading feature of the magazine. Among the subjects now treated are "Andrew Jackson," "Religious Denominations," "American Cities,"

etc.

The New England Magazine is devoted especially to New England history and life, and the immediate issues will be unusually rich and strong in articles in its own peculiar province. In the July number of the magazine appear articles upon the "Isles of Shoals," "Jane Adams," "Jane Adams," "The Hull House," "The King Philip Country," and other interest ing subjects.

With the July number the Overland Monthly, San Francisco, celebrated its thirtieth anniversary. Most of the old-time contributors have sent articles, stories, poems, etc., to make it a reflection of the "days of gold." Noah Brooks, Chas. Warren Stoddard, Miss Coolbrith, Anton Roman and a host of the ancient literary lights of the Pacific are represented in its pages. The special cover designs which The Overland has adopted are attracting a great deal of attention in artistic. and literary circles. They are made from modelings in clay by a young California sculptor named Aitken.

Outing has a distinct and definite mission. It preaches the gospel of fresh air in its widest and best sense, and of purity in the conduct of ath

letic contests. The other leading magazines are general. Their object, so far as they have any, is in the main to amuse and, in one or two of the more serious, in a lesser degree to instruct. Outing, on the other hand, cannot deviate from its task of unfolding the beauty and charm of nature, and aiding to establish physical and mental health. It describes the avenues by which the goal can be reached-by rod and gun, by canoe and yacht, by cycle and saddle, on the golf links and the track, in the camp and on the tramp. Outing appeals to the boy at school, to the youth at college, and to the busy man desirous of offsetting the strain and confinement of modern life. To the women of America it has opened new fields of health, and to the family its pages can be entrusted with the certainty that in them is no taint. Outing has succeeded because it presents what a great number of people want in the form in which they want it, and because it is wholesome.

Another excellent magazine devoted to out-door life and out-door sport is Recreation. It was started in 1894, but has in the short time of its existence, made a phenomenal success. It contains many interesting sketches of travel and adventure, experiences with rod and gun and is profusely illustrated.

Other magazines cater to the literary taste of their patrons, or else tell them how, by the expenditure

of money, they may be well dressed, or in some way suggest the expenditure of money to accomplish some object, but What to Eat, published at Minneapolis, Minn., treats solely on food, its preparation, and its use. It tells you what to eat, when to eat, how to cook, how to serve, how to entertain; the latest thing in table decorations and furnishings, and so on, through the almost interminable line of subjects that would be suggested by the title, What to Eat. It has been left for What to Eat to show to the American housewife how she can conduct the culinary branch of her home not only in an intelligent and up-to-date manner, but how she may avail herself of all the modern methods of economical management. It is attractively gotten up and is by no means technically dry, but entertainingly written, containing also articles about the ethical side of good living.

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A most commendable weekly newspaper for boys and girls, but no less interesting and valuable to grown people, who either have no time or no desire to wade through a swamp of scandalous and sensational gossip of our dailies in order to get to the actual historical events of our times the world over, is The Great Round World. We have repeatedly had occasion to refer to it, yet it cannot too often be brought to the notice of the intelligent parents and teachers. The success which this excellent little paper has already achieved is due to the fact that it actually gives our boys and girls what they want, not fiction, but the news of the day

of which they hear their elders converse, in an intelligible, concise form. The bound volumes present the best history of our own times and are worthy of preservation in public and private libraries for reference and healthy reading.

A very commendable monthly magazine, especially for musical families is Ev'ry Month. It may justly be called an ideal home magazine, embodying all the features of the literary and pictorial magazines, besides presenting, in every number, four new copyrighted pieces of vocal and instrumental music by wellknown popular song writers and composers, at the very low price of ten cents per number.

The August Ladies' Home Journal is made up almost entirely of fiction. There are seven or eight short stories, in addition to Julia Magruder's serial "A Heaven-Kissing Hill," which is brought to its conclusion in August. Julian Hawthorne, John Kendrick Bangs, Abbe Carter Goodloe, Clara Morris, Sewell Ford and others have contributed their best short stories, which are illustrated by some of the most popular American artists.

The numerous readers of Henryk Sienkiewicz's novels, Quo Vadis, With Fire and Sword, etc., will surely be greatly interested to read an article which Jeremiah Curtin, to whose excellent translations the American readers owe their acquaintance with this great novelist, has written for the July Century.

The complete novel in the August issue of Lippincott's, "The Last Rebel," is by Joseph A. Altsheler, now well known as a writer of war stories. The scene is a lonesome post in the southern Alleghanies, held for the Confederacy by a chivalrous monomaniac after the unpleasantness of 1861-65 had ended. The action deals with the experiences of a Northerner who unadvisedly wandered into those parts and found himself a prisoner.

With the June number of Cassell's Magazine, which has lately grown much in vigor, began a new volume. Among the special features were a new novel by Mr. Joseph Hocking and a series of criminal episodes told by Mr. E. W. Hornung. The publishers have lately re-opened an office in New York, with the purpose of increasing their efforts to obtain a larger market for their various periodicals: Cassell's Magazine, Magazine of Art and Little Folks in this Country. Although we have certainly no lack of good magazines here, we believe that their efforts will be rewarded. The good qualities of these interesting publications, which belong to the most popular ones in England, are well established and favorably known for many years.

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which have not "succumbed to the wood-engraver," Mr. James singles out among them the Atlantic as worthy of highest commendation, and says: "The Atlantic remains, with a distinction of its own, practically the single refuge of the essay and the literary portrait. The great picture books occasionally admit these things-opening the door, however, but, as children say, on a crack. In the Atlantic the book-lover, the student, the painter, standing on his own feet, continues to have room to turn around."

The war has been the cause of a big boom for Collier's Weekly, which with its attractive covers and wealth of fine and authentic pictures, to-day stands at the head of our illustrated weeklies. Its war pictures are certainly the best we have seen, and a bound volume of Collier's Weekly, containing its war numbers, will be one of the best pictorial histories of the war, a valuable and beautiful perennial monument.

We have to chronicle two changes One is the absorption of the Chap among our literary contemporaries. Book by the Dial, and the other one the changing of the Critic from a weekly to an illustrated monthly. While the recognized high standard of the intrinsic literary value of the Critic has not lost by it, but if any. thing improved, we should think that the publishers might have given it a more worthy attire; the typographical arrangement is anything but tasteful or artistic, and the paper is of a rather inferior quality for a

magazine that is worthy of being preserved and bound-The consolidation of two such heterogeneous publications as the sparkling, independent Chap Book and the very conservative Dial is a curious and surprising one. The Chap Book, which was started started in May, 1894, as a monthly, and became a leader of many fanciful magazinelets, none of which survived it with the exception of The Philistine, was to a great ex

tent a reformator or revolutionizer of modern American literature. It moved to Chicago in October of the same year, and has since then appeared regularly twice a month, having been enlarged in January, 1897. It will be missed very much. We hope that the Dial, which is a monthly and also published in Chicago, will gain by the consolidation, and will be infused by some of the new blood of the Chap Book.

LEADING ARTICLES AND STORIES IN SOME OF THE JUNE MAGAZINES.

THE ARENA.

The United States and the Concert of Europe. By John Clark Ridpath.

The Criminal Responsibility of the Insane. By Dr. F. E.
Daniel.

The Misuse of Injunctions. By James W. Stillman.
The Churches and Social Questions. By Rev. George W.
Buckley, Rev. Robert E. Bisbee and T. S. Lonergan.
The Proposed Federation of the Anglo-Saxon Nations. By
B. O. Flower.

Japanese Home Lite as Contrasted with American. By
Chujiro Kochi.

The Extirpation of Consumption. By Dr. L. Cothran.
The American Girl; Her Faults and Her Virtues. By
Mrs. Rhodes Campbell.

Socrates: Philosopher, Seer and Martyr. By B. O. Flower.
A Tramp's Experience; A True Story. By Amelia C.
Briggs.

THE ARGOSY (and the Peterson Magazine).

The Spanish Spy. By John P. Ritter.

When Knights were Bold. I. By Maud H. Peterson.
Through the Blockade. (Continued.) By Col. A. A. Burr.
The Hermit's Secret. (Continued.) By Oliver Optic.
A Fair Slave to the Mahdi. (Continued.) By C. E.
Barns.

God's Prisoner. (Continued.) By John Oxenham.
By Dint of Valor. (Continued.) By Knarf Elivas.
The Phantom Army. (Continued.) By Max Pemberton.

ATLANTIC MONTHLY.

The Old World in the New. By Benjamin Ide Wheeler. The Trend of the Century. By Seth Low,

The Proper Basis of English Culture. By Sidney Lanier. Neglected Aspects of the Revolution. By Charles Kendall Adams.

Lights and Shades of Spanish Character. By Irving Babbitt.

My Friend Ah-Chy. By Christina Ritchie.

Where Angels Fear to Tread. By Morgan Robertson.
Driftwood. By H. Phelps Whitmarsh.

The Tinkling Simlins. By Mary Tracy Earle.
The Commodore. By Justina Ingersoll.

Reminiscences of an Astronomer. I. By Simon Newcomb.
Edward Bellamy. By W. D. Howells.

At Natural Bridge, Virginia. II. By Bradford Torrey. The Battle of the Strong. (Continued.)

Parker.

CENTURY MAGAZINE.

By Gilbert

The Arctic Monument Named for Tennyson by Dr. Kane. By C. W. Shields.

The Seven Wonders of the World. IV. The Statue of Zeus at Olympia. By B. I. Wheeler.

The Coon Dog. By S. O. Jewett.

Sangre de Cristo. A Romance of Spanish America. By M. B. Crowninshield.

Heroes of the Deep. By H. D. Ward.

The Adventures of François. (Continued.) By S. Weir
Mitchel.

The Trumpet in Camp and Battle. By G. Kobbe.
Gilbert Stuart's Portraits of Women. (Nancy Pennington.)
By C. H. Hart.

The Island of Porto Rico. By F. A. Ober.

Facts About the Philippines. By F. A. Vanderlip.
Life in Manila. By W. Cumming.

An Artist with Admiral Sampson's Fleet. By W. Russell.
The Sanitary Regeneration of Havana. By George M.
Sternberg.

Cole's Old English Masters. (Sir William Beechey.)By
John C. Van Dyke.

Cuba as Seen from the Inside. By O. Welsh.
Confederate Commerce Destroyers. (Continued.)
The Battle of Manila Bay.

COSMOPOLITAN.

The U. S. Treasury Department. By Lyman J. Gage.
To the Summit of Mt. Hood. By M. Katherine Locke.
Francis Joseph, the Beloved Monarch. By C. Frank
Dewey.

Gloria Mundi. (Continued.) By Harold Frederick.

A War Time Dress. By Mary E. Wilkins.

The Romance of the Klondyke. By Clarence Pullen.
At the Appetite Cure. By Mark Twain.
Hunger. By V. J. Youmans.

The Autobiography of Napoleon. The Story of the Manu-
script. By John Brisben Walker.
Autobiograpy of Napoleon Bonaparte.-III.
The Commodore's Chair. By Anna A. Rogers.
Richard Le Gallienne. By Charles G. D. Roberts.
Necessity for a General Staff. By Maj. G. M. Wheeler,
U. S. A.

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THE FORUM.

The Spanish War and the Equilibrium of the World. By Brooks Adams.

The Anglo-American Commission. By Edward Farrer. Austria-Hungary under the Reign of Francis II. By Albert von Schaeffle.

New Constitutional Amendments. By James Schouler. The Development of the Policy of Reciprocity. By Hon. John Ball Osborne.

The Future of Great Telescopes. By T. J. J. Lee.

Our Need of a Permanent Diplomatic Service. By Hon. George L. Rives.

How a Savage Tribe is Governed. By Major John W. Powel.

The Repetition of History in Our War with Spain. By S. Leonard.

The Problem of Immortality: Some Recent Mediumistic
Phenomena. By James H. Hyslop.

New Trials for Old Favorites. By Prof. Brander Mathews.
FRANK LESLIE'S POPULAR MONTHLY (Sept.)
A Warship's Battery. By Henry Harrison Lewis.
The Johnson Island Conspiracy. By Frederick Boyd
Stevenson.

An American Cattle Painter. By J. M. Erwin.

Marie Tremaine. (Continued.) By Francis Swann Williams.

The Story of Wyoming the Beautiful. By John P. Ritter. Merely a Passing Passion. Story.

Canoe Cruising and the Cruising Canoe. By Commodore F. R. Webb.

Maud Conway's Brother. Story.

The Religious Denominations of America. X.-The

Roman Catholics. By A. P. Doyle.

Art in the Catholic Church. By Jean D'Hugo.

Which Won Cuba? Story. By Genevieve L. Browne.
The Irish People at Home. By Katherine Tynan.

As a Last Resort. Story. By J. Frederick Thorne.

An American Princess. (A Story for Boys and Girls. Continued.) By Evelyn Raymond.

GODEY'S MAGAZINE.

Some Present Favorites of Our American Stage.
Fisher Folks on the Gulf of Mexico. By L. Beck Ellis.
A Daughter of New England. (Maria Louise Pool.) By
Frank A. Arnold.

Freiburg in Baden. By K. F. Reighard.

Sidelights on People You Hear of. By Edgar Teralos.
Gold Extraction from Sea Water. By G. E. Walsh.
The Lebanon Shakers. By C. S, Haight.
Recent American Architecture. By M. A. Keith.
Old Facts about Telegraphy. By A. T. Sibbald.
A Golden Sorrow. (Continued.) By Maria Louise Pool.

HARPER'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

The Convict system in Siberia. By Stephen Bonsal.
The Monster. A Story. By Stephen Crane.
Under the Spell of the Great Cañon. By E. M. Prudden.
The Lord Chief Justice Being an Episode in the Life of
Richard Ryder, otherwise Galloping Dick. By H. B.
Marriot Watson.

Old Chester Tales: V. The Child's Mother. By Margaret
Deland.

The Fish Warden of Madrid. (Story.) By Bliss Perry. Roden's Corner. A Novel. (Concluded.) By H. S. Mer

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THE INTERNATIONAL STUDIO.

The Work of Bertram Priestman. By A. L. Baldy.
Evesham as a Sketching Ground. By Alfred Paterson.
Some Furniture for the New Palace at Darmstadt. By M.
H. Baillie Scott.

Tanagra Terra Cottas. By Marcus B. Huish.
Another Word on Rodin.

The International Society of Painters, Sculptors and Grav-
ers. By G. Sauter.
Art Supplement. From an Oil Painting" by Bertram
Priestman (In colors); "An Auto-Lithograph," by
Bertram Priestman; Music Cabinet," by M. H.
Baillie Scott (in colors); Rodin's "Balzac"; "Portrait
of Gladstone" by J. McClure Hamilton; Designs for
Enameled Buckles" (in colors), etc.

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LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE.

The Last Rebel. By Joseph Altsheler.

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Death in the Woods and Fields. By Calvin Dill Wilson.
Privateers. By George Ethelbert Walsh.
Tudie. By Alice Miriam Roundy.

In Ohio a Hundred Years Ago. By Elizabeth Wormeley
Latimer.

The United States as a Colonial Power. By Fred Perry Powers.

A Fortune Hunter. By Edwin A. Pratt and John Ford
Barbour.

Summer Logging. By Allen Hendricks.
Signalling in War-Time. By George J. Varney.
The Police Reporter. By Vance Thompson.
Misery. By Elizabeth F. Tittle.

The Democracy of Fiction. By Annie Steger Winston.
MCCLURE'S MAGAZINE.

In Ambush. Kipling.

A Story of School Life. By Rudyard
Love in a Fog. A London Story. By H. C. Oakley.
The Liner and the Iceberg. A Sea Story. By C. Hyne.
While the Evil Days Come Not. A Bayville Story. By
William Allen White.

Military Europe. By Major-General Nelson A. Miles.
A Midsummer Night's Trip. A Railroad Story. By
John A. Hill.

My Ride Across Cuba. By Lieut. Col. Andrew S Rowan,
Reminiscences of Men and Events of the Civil War. IX.
By Charles A. Dana.

A Letter From the 'Hio. A New England Story. By R. E. Robinson.

THE MUNSEY.

The Leaders of Our Army. By Rufus R. Wilson.
The Wealth of the Philippines. By John Alden Adams.
The Pension Problems. By Henry Clay Evans.
Our Native Aristocracy. By James L. Ford.
The Rise and Fall of Spain. By R. H. Titherington.
Swallow. (Continued.) By H. Rider Haggard.
The Castle Inn. (Continued.) By Stanley J. Weyman.

NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW

What the Unionists have done for Ireland. By T. W. Russell, M. P.

Shakespeare in 1898. By Edmund Gosse.

The Great Lakes and Our Commercial Supremacy. By John Ford.

The Anglo-American Joint High Commission. By A Canadian Liberal.

The U. S. Senate. II. By Ex-Senator W. A. Peffer.
The Abdication of Man. By Elizabeth Bisland.
Zionism. By Rev. Dr. H. P. Mendes.

Graveyards as a Menace to the Commonweal. By Louis
Windmuller.

The English Speaking Brotherhood.
Waldstein.

By Prof. Chas.

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Soap Bubbles By Max Nordau.

An American Heiress. (Concluded.) By Mme. De Boret. Jack. By Armand Sylvestre.

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