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pleasant travel sketch, — " Out-of-the-Ways in High Savoy," by Dr. Edward Eggleston, fully illustrated by Joseph Pennell. Mr. La Farge's "Letters from Japan " have for their most strik ing feature this month the description, in word and picture, of fishing by means of cormorants in a Japanese river. Mrs. Amelia Gere Mason closes in this number her first series of articles on " The Women of the French Salons." These articles having been so successful, Mrs. Mason has been asked to furnish a supplementary paper or two on Mesdames Recamier, De Stael, and Roland. Miss Helen Gray Cone contributes a paper on " Women in American Literature," in which she reviews the whole field of American female authorship. In fiction, the October num ber closes Mrs. Barr's story of " Olivia; " and gives a sketch by a new Southern writer (Mrs. Virginia Frazer Boyle), and a story by Miss Sarah Orne Jewett, — both illustrated by Kemble.

The conclusion of Mrs. Deland's " Sidney" occupies the first place in the Atlantic for Octo ber, and the final chapters have that intensity of feeling which is called forth by the statement of the theory of her story; namely, that love and self-sacrifice are the things which alone make life worth having. " Felicia " comes to a climax in the marriage of the heroine with a man to whose occupation in life both she and all her friends strenuously object. Dr. Holmes's "Over the Teacups " also relates to marrying and giving in marriage; and, moreover, describes a visit to a certain college for women, not a thousand miles from Boston. The first chapters of a forthcoming serial story by Frank Stockton are announced for next month. The other striking papers of the number are a consideration of Henrik Ibsen's life abroad and his later dramas, Mr. Fiske's " Bene dict Arnold's Treason," Mr. J. K. Paulding's "A Wandering Scholar of the Sixteenth Cen tury," — Johannes Butzbach, — Mr. McCrackan's account of Altdorf and the open-air legislative assemblies which take place there, and Pro fessor Royce's paper on General Fre'mont. Miss Jewett's Maine sketch, " By the Morning Boat," and a poem by Miss Thomas on "Sleep," should be especially remembered. The usual Contri butors' Club, and several critical articles, one

of which is a review of Jules Breton's " La Vie d'un Artiste," complete the issue.

No one can write sea-stories like W. Clark Russell. They are as healthful and invigorating as old Ocean itself. One of his most interesting tales, entitled " A Marriage at Sea," is published in full in Lippincott's Magazine for October. The other contents of this number are exceedingly attractive. " Tartuffe in Ebony " is an entertain ing sketch by a young Southern writer, — Jeannie Drake. Rose Elizabeth Cleveland contributes an article entitled " My Florida; " and L. R. McCabe writes of " Le Prix de Rome," and of the advan tages it offers to its winners. He advocates the establishment of some such institution in this country. Professor Skidmore contributes a thoughtful article on " University Extension;" Edward Fuller censures the American public for their want of taste in dramatic affairs, in a paper entitled " The Public and the Stage; " and M. Helen Lovett points out some of the " Fallacies of the Woman Suffragists." Julian Hawthome has a discriminating essay on Rudyard Kipling, and a third instalment of the entertaining series of " Round-Robin Talks " is given.

Theodore Child's series of South American pa pers, which is attracting so general attention, is continued in Harper's Magazine for October, in an article on " Agricultural Chili," describing the farming resources of that country, methods of cultivation and irrigation, wine culture, wages of laborers, etc. The article is accompanied by fourteen illustrations from photographs, and from drawings by leading American artists. Julian Ralph, in an article entitled " Antoine's Mooseyard " (illustrated by F. Remington), gives an interesting narrative of hunting adventures in the wilds of Canada. Joaquin Miller relates the story of a visit to the historic neighborhood of Sher wood Forest, and of some " Nights at Newstead Abbey" spent in the haunted bedchamber of Lord Byron. This article is illustrated from pho tographs and drawings by American artists. L. E. Chittenden gives a history of the " New Mon eys of Lincoln's Administration," and George Ticknor Curtis contributes an interesting chapter