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 Rh erable F. W. Farrar, Archdeacon of Westminster, contributes an impartial and appreciative sketch of the origin and work of "The Salvation Army." "Roman London " is the subject of an extremely interesting paper, written by Eugene Lawrence and illustrated by H. D. Nichols, describing the Roman remains recently discovered beneath the London pavements. Col. T. A. Dodge writes the first of a series of entertaining articles about "Sonic American Riders," his paper being beau tifully illustrated from paintings by Frederic Remington. Apropos of the recent increased interest in the affairs of the Spanish-American republics, Bishop J M. Walden contributes an account of " The Argentine People and their Re ligious and Educational Institutions." Theodore Child, continuing his series of South-American papers, gives a very complete description of the climate, people, and resources of "The Republic of Uruguay." This paper, like those which pre ceded it, is amply illustrated. Moncure D. Con way contributes an important article on " The English Ancestry of Washington." Other articles in this number of the magazine include a causerie, by Walter Besant, " Over Johnson's Grave; " short stories by A. B. Ward and Caroline Earl White; the continuation of the serials by Charles Egbert Craddock and Thomas Hardy; and poems by W. D. Howells and Robert Burns Wilson. Scribner's Magazine for May contains impor tant articles in two notable illustrated series, — the first of "The Great Streets of the World," and the second of the " Ocean Steamship " articles. A. B. Frost has made eighteen drawings for the " Broad way " article; and skilful artists, like Metcalf, Zogbaum, Denman, Broughton, and Villiers make the steamship article very attractive and elaborate in illustration. The May number is noteworthy in fiction, containing the conclusion of the muchpraised serial, " Jerry," and the first of a two-part story, "An Alabama Courtship," by F. J. Stimson ("J. S. of Dale"), the author of " Guerndale," and " First Harvests." In addition there are two complete short stories, — " A Fragment of a Play,'" by Mary Tappan Wright, who wrote that weird tale, " A Truce; " and " A Toledo Blade," by T. R Sullivan, author of " The Lost Rembrandt" and other short stories which have appeared in this magazine. There are also a short illustrated article by E. H. House, on the " Japanese Temples

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of Ise," which for nearly two thousand years have been re-created, in every detail, at intervals of twenty years; and a carefully prepared paper on "Shakspeare as an Actor."

Julien Gordon, author of those popular works, "A Diplomat's Diary" and '• A Successful Man," contributes the complete novel to the May number of Lippincott's Magazine. It is called " The Vam pires," and tells the story of the struggle of a poor man to maintain an idle and luxurious and semiinvalid wife. One hears often of the women who work and slave for idle husbands, but here the case is reversed. There is but little plot to the story; but so lifelike are the characters, and so keen the discernment evinced of the comedy and tragedy of life, that the novel must stand as the author's masterpiece. The other contents of this number are : " The Experiences of a Photogra pher," by A, Bogardus; " Lost Treasures of Lite rature," by William Shepard; •' Poems," by Charles Henry Liiders; " That Hound o' Joel Trout's," by M. G. McClelland; " Absence," by Owen Wister; " Some Familiar Letters by Horace Gree ley, — III.," edited by Joel Benton; " A Success ful Woman," by M. E. W. Sherwood; " A Blossom from the Hague," by William E. S. Fales; " Polly," by Patience Stapleton; " Aims of University Ex tension," by Sydney T. Skidmore; " By the Sea." by Clinton Scollard; " What Country Girls Can Do," by Grace H. Dodge; "Latent Force," by John Worrell Keely; " The Personality of the Prince of Wales,'' by Frank A. Burr; " The Moujik," by Julien Gordon; " Some Letters to Julien Gordon; " "John Dickinson," by Anne H. Wharton; " Literary Dynamics," by Francis How ard Williams; " Maidens Choosing." by Frederic M. Bird; " With the Wits " (illustrated by leading artists). Certainly there has been no story so extraor dinary in its plot and so forcible in its vivid de scriptions, as the late Douglas O'Connor's "Brazen Android," the concluding portion of which appears in the Atlantic Monthly for May. It is a relief to turn from the tension of " The Brazen Android" to the portion of a hitherto unpublished journal of Richard H. Dana, which describes a voyage on the Grand Canal of China. Mr. Dana's descrip tion of Su-Chau is immensely interesting, and it is