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"Carlotta's Intended " is the title of the complete novel in the September Lippincott's. Its author, Ruth McEnery Stuart, is well known as the contributor of many clever stories to the lead ing magazines. This is a story of New Orleans life in the Italian qnarter. The hero is an original and amusing Irishman who loves the daughter of an Italian shopkeeper. Some of the secondary figures are members of the dreaded Mafia society. The other contents of this number, worthy of spe cial mention, are as follows : " Julia Marlowe" (with portrait), by Alfred Stoddart; " Real People in Fiction," by William S. Walsh; " A Murderer for an Hour," by Julius Chambers; " A Plea for Helen," by Julia C. R. Dorr, " Derby Day on Clapham Common," by Thomas P. Gill, M.P.; "Society in Different Cities," by Mrs. M. E. W. Sherwood; " Country Roads and Highways," by John Gilmer Speed; " Encouragement for Poets," by Louise Imogen Guiney, "Mrs. Van Brunt's Convert." by Raymond Driggs; " Notes from an Engineer's Camp," by Henry Collins; " His Maj esty the Average Reader," by Edgar Fawcett; "The Days that are to Be," by J. K. Wetherill.

The September Arena is a remarkably attrac tive issue of this justly popular review, as will be seen by glancing at the following table of con tents : Frontispiece, Rev. Geo. C. Lorimer; " The Newer Heresies," by Rev. Geo. C. Lorimer, D.D; "Harvest and Laborers in the Physical Field," by F. W. H. Meyer, of Cambridge. England; " Fash ion's Slaves " (a discussion of woman's dress, with three full-page photogravures and over twenty smaller pictures), by B. O. Flower; "Un-Ameri can Tendencies," by Rev. Carlos Martyn, D.D.; "Extrinsic Significance of Constitutional Govern ment in Japan," by Kuma Oishi, M. A.; " The Pope on Labor," by Thomas B. Preston; " The Austrian Postal Banking System," by Sylvester Baxter; " Intermigration," by Rabbi Solomon Schindler ., " He came and went again," by Will N. Harben; " An Evening at the Corner Gro cery " (a Western character sketch), by Hamlin Garland. The sterling ability displayed in these papers, and the variety of themes discussed, make the September Arena unusually interesting. Rudvard Kipling is given the place of honor in the September Atlantic, and his " Disturber

of Traffic " is written with all the vividness and fer vor which have characterized his previous works. The other contents of this number are varied and interesting; but the lawyer will be particularly at tracted by the article on " Courts of Conciliation," written by Nicolay Grevstad. " The House of Martha," by Frank R. Stockton, and " The Lady of F'ort St. John," by Mary Hartwell Catherwood. are continued. Octave Thanet has a second paper on "Town Life in Arkansas;' John Burroughs has left his fields for " A Study of Analogy;" MrBradford Torrey. however, still remains faithful to his rustic haunts in a sketch of " Dyer's Hollow /*" John Fiske has a paper on " Europe and Cathay;" a paper on "The Author Himself," by Woodrow Wilson; a charming description of the Japanese Feast of Lanterns and the Market of the Dead, by Lafcadio Hearn, and a review of Mrs. Oliphant's Life of Laurence Oliphant (in itself practically a biographical sketch of that extraordinary man), under the apt title of " A Modern Mystic," are included among the other good things. Scribner's Magazine for September contains the fifth and concluding article in the successful Steamship Series, entitled " The Steamship Lines of the World," by Lieut. Ridgely Hunt, U.S.N. This number contains three articles on essentially American subjects, — on " Odd Homes," from the dug-out to the Adirondack cabin; on " China Hunting in New England.'' particularly along the Connecticut River Valley, with an account of many, rare American plates, which it was once the cus tom to make as souvenirs of important events; and (the third) on the "Present Ideals of Ameri can University Life,' by Prof. Josiah Royce. of Harvard. Other important articles in this issue are " Browning's Asolo,' by Felix Moscheles, the artist, and friend of Browning; a description of "The City of the Sacred Bo-Tree," by James Ricalton; Andrew Lang's " Adventures among Books," — a sort of literary autobiography; the second instalment of the serial story, "The Wrecker," by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, and short stories by Thomas Nelson Page and Charles G. D. Roberts. Readers of Harper's Magazine for September are confronted from the beginning with an embar rassment of riches. The number is opened by