or freak-magazines, which still seem to have some friends among collectors and lovers of the quaint and unusual, have lately made their appearance. One is:

Enfant Terrible. One of those irresistibly funny, cleverly silly cre ations of Gelett Burgess, of The Lark, The Chewing-gum Man, and Purple Cow fame, in collaboration with Oliver Herford and Carolyn Wells.

The other one is called The Twilight, and edited by that clever young Japanese poet, Yone Noguchi, who lives in San Francisco and rhymes in English, together with M. Takahashi, another member of that sparkling clique of California "jeunes," to which also Gelett Burgess belongs. The text and illustrations are as fin de siecle, as may be wished for. Price 10c a number.

were verse. Its illustrations are exactly like the primitive woodcuts of three hundred years ago, and it cultivates the gentle art of nonsenseverse to perfection. Mr. John Lane we believe, is to publish an English edition of The Chap Book. Why not, we would suggest to Mr. Doxey, find an English publisher for The Lark ?

Gelett Burgess, whose discarded first name is Frank, comes of Puritan stock, and was born in Boston about thirty years ago. He is a descendant of one Tristam Burgess, who silenced by his sarcasm Randolph, of Roanoake; and is also a relative of Edward Burgess, the designer of cup defenders. Mr. Burgess was graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1887 as a civil engineer. He then traveled abroad, and being a man of many talents, has since been an instructor in the University of California, a clever designer of bookcovers and title-pages, and is better known as the editor of The Lark, where his versatility has been tested successively over the pen-names "Richard Redforth," "Lewis G. Holt," and James F. Merioneth.” A devoted disciple of the Tusitala, he is pronounced by his friends to be "a saturated solution of Stevenson," and his style everywhere shows his worshipful study of his master. He is a favorite and friend of the family, and it is partly due to Mrs.

Stevenson's advice and inspiration that he has turned his attention to literary work. The Stevensons dubbed him with another name, a Samoan one, "O le Lupe.'

In the field of fixed forms Mr.

Burgess is very clever, and nearly all of the elusive French follies, from a sestina to a triolet, have been successfully treated by him. Perhaps, however, he has put his best work into the Vivette stories; charming, detached bits of a unique imagination, now pitched in ideal Arcadian forests, now in nineteenth-century romances, but always crisp and original in manner and matter. The nonsense rhymes and cartons of The Lark, also due to his pen and pencil, perhaps find their only rivals in the jingles and drawings of Edwin Lear. It is often asked if The Lark is to be taken seriously. It ought not to be taken at all except by those who know intuitively its intent.

The Wide World Magazine is a new venture of Sir George Newnes that enterprising publisher of TitBits, The Strand Magazine and many other popular periodicals. Fiction is excluded, and in its stead we are given facts that are even more startling, the wonders of nature and science being exploited. The magazine has just reached its third number. It is full of interesting reading matter and copiously illustrated.

That excellent little weekly newspaper for boys and girls (but not less interesting for grown folks who do

not read the daily papers regularly, or prefer to get in a plain, concise form a recapitulation of the world's doings during the week), The Great Round World, has recently been running through its columns a short his tory of Cuba, which will doubtless From the same appeal to many.

office has been issued a short history of Spain by Mrs. Parmelee (price 10c), which was received with such appreciation that the first edition of 10,000 had been sold within three weeks, and a second larger edition has just been published.

Richard Harding Davis, who was present at the bombardment of Matanzas and near Cabanas harbor, and at the most important prize captures, is Scribner's Magazine's chief war contributor, being under agreement to write for no other magazine upon this subject. His first article. "The First Shot of the War," will appear in the July number, to be followed by "The First Bombardment" and a rapid succession of other articles, all to be written from his personal observation on the flagship and despatch boats, and later accompanying the land forces. Mr. Davis has also been appointed war correspondent for the London Times and the New York Herald.

LEADING ARTICLES AND STORIES IN SOME OF THE JUNE MAGAZINES.

THE ARENA.

Usurpations of the Federal Judiciary in the Interests of the Money Power. By D. L. Russell.

Direct Nomination of Candidates by the People. By J. S. Hopkins.

Decadence of Patriotism, and What it Means. By H. E. Foster.

Elements of Organic Evolution. By David S. Jordan.
Professor Briggs and the Bible. By O. B. Jenkins.
Restrictive Medical Legislation and the Public Weal. By
B. O. Flower.

Relation of Color to the Emotions. By Harold Wilson.
The Invisible Empire. By John Clark Ridpath.
The Open Vision in Art. By D. P. Baldwin.

ATLANTIC MONTHLY.

The War with Spain, and After.

Uncertain Factors in Naval Conflicts. By Ira N. Hollis. The Montanians. By Rollin L. Hartt.

Washington Reminiscences. By A. R. Spofford.

A New Programme in Education. By C. H. Henderson. Normal Schools and the Training of Teachers. By Frederick Burk.

High-School Extension. By D. S. Sanford.

The Battle of the Strong (Continued). By Gilbert Parker. A Successful Bachelor. By L. H. Vincent.

The Teacher and the Laboratory; A Reply. By H. Munsterberg.

The End of All Living. By Alice Brown.

A New Estimate of Cromwell. By James F. Rhodes.

Toledo, the Imperial City of Spain. By Stephen Bonsal,
Pictures for Don Quixote. By W. D. Howells.
Club and Salon.-II. By Amelia Gere Mason.

The Adventure of François. (Continued.) By S. Weir
Mitchell.

The Spanish Armada. By Captain Alfred T. Mahan and William F. Tilton.

The Seven Wonders of the World. By Benjamin Ide
Wheeler.

The Three Rs at Circle City. By Anna Fulcomer.
The Passing of Enriquez. By Bret Harte.

A Critical Review of Daly's Theatre. By J. R. Towse.
The Inside Working of the Theatre. By George Parsons
Lathrop.

An Outline of Japanese Art.-II. By Ernest F. Fenollosa. The Confederate Torpedo Service. By R. O. Crowley. Gilbert Stuart's Portraits of Women. By Charles H. Hart. Ten Months with the Cuban Insurgents. By Emory W. Fenn.

THE COSMOPOLITAN.

Liquid Air-Newest Wonder of Science. By Charles E. Tripler.

In Havana Just Before the War. By Francis C. Baylor. Some Previous Expeditions to Tropical Countries. By Gen. A. W. Greely.

Autobiography of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Transformation of Citizen Into Soldier. By Vaughan
Kester.

Lover's Day at a State Camp. By Irving Bacheller.
Bombardment of Zanzibar. By R. Dorsey Mohun.
Gloria Mundi. (Continued.) By Harold Frederic.
The Gray Mills of Farley. By Sara Orne Jewett.
Guillaumette. By Max Pemberton.

THE FORUM.

Our War with Spain: Its Justice and Necessity. By J. B. Foraker.

The Hull Army Bill. By J. A. T. Hull.

Cuba and Its Value as a Colony. By Robert T. Hill.

The War for Cuba. By Joseph E. Chamberlain.
Social Conditions in our Newest Territory. By Helen C.
Candee.

Textile War Between the North and South. By Jerome
Dowd.

The Little Kingdom of the President. By H. L. West.
The School System of Germany. By Theobald Ziegler.
The Ideal Training of the American Girl. By Thomas
Davidson.

Some Aspects of the Teaching Profession. By W. H.
Burnham.

A French View of the American Workingman. By T.

Stanton.

Have We Still Need of Poetry? By Calvin Thomas. Freaks of Sea Lamps and Fog Signals. By Joanna R. N. Kyle.

A Forerunner of Freedom. By J. L Wright.

FRANK LESLIE'S POPULAR MONTHLY.
(July.)

Some Famous Naval Battles.

The Making of Fireworks. By Henry J. Pain.
Andrew Jackson.-IX. By Rachel Donelson Jackson.
Marie Tremaine. (Continued.) By F. S. Williams.
Egyptian Gunboats.

The Way of a Woman. By J. Fr. Thorne.
Life in Manilla. By Chas. B. Howard.
The Society of Friends. By D. Gibbons.
San Antonio. By Chas. T. Logan.

HARPER'S MAGAZINE.

The Prince of Georgia. By Julian Ralph.

Current Fallacies Upon Naval Subjects. By Capt. A. T.

Mahan.

The Spirit of Mahongui. By Frederic Remington.

The Trolley in Rural Parts. By Sylvester Baxter.

A Rebel Cipher Dispatch. By David H. Bates.

A Study of a Child. By Louise E. Hogan.

A Century of Cuban Diplomacy-1795 to 1895. By A. B.

Hart.

The Situation in China.

HOUSE BEAUTIFUL.

Lowestoft Ware. By Alice Morse Earle.

Concerning Windows and Doors. By Oliver Coleman. The Furniture of To-Day. By F. H. Raabe

A Small City Apartment. By Helen M. Chamberlin. The Doves Bindery. By E. H. Nordhoff.

McCLURE'S MAGAZINE.

Rupert of Hentzau. (Continued.) By Anthony Hope.
An Old Grand Army Man. By Octave Thanet.
Cuba Under Spanish Rule. By Fitzhugh Lee.
Sons of the Ships of Steel. By James Barnes.
How the War Began. By Stephen Bonsal.

With the Turkish and Greek Armies. By Nelson A. Miles.
Social Life in the Army of the Union. By Ira Seymour.
The Cost of War. By George B. Waldron.
Reminiscenses of the Civil War. By C. A. Dana.
Stories of the Fighting Leaders. By L. A. Coolidge.
An American in Manilla. By Joseph E. Stephens.
In the Field with Gomez. By Grover Flint.
The Battleship at Work. By Earl Mayo.

MUNSEY'S MAGAZINE.

Swallow. By H. Rider Haggard.

The Castle Inn. (Continued.) By Stanley Weyman.

Round the Fire. By A. Conan Doyle.
Jan Von Beers. Illustrated Interview.
A Submarine Boat. By Henry Hale.
Postmen of the World. By Thomas Lake.
Postage Stamp Designs By George Dollar.

WIDE WORLD MAGAZINE. (July.)
Out of the Lion's Jaws. By Ernest Brockman.
The Great Carnival at Nice. By F. Deym.
A South African Trek. By Miss Alice Balfour.
The Romance of the Mission Fields. By Fr. Burns.
A Forest on Fire. By Captain M. Gibbs.
Cave Exploring. By E. A. Martel.

Edible Bird's Nests. By H. W. Smyth.

Mountain Railways. By S. Panızzi.

Canadian Curiosities. By Wm. G. Fitz Gerald.

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