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of spelling his own name, and not a typographi cal error. There is the first instalment of a two-part story by Henry James, entitled " The Chaperon," a subject quite to Mr. James's taste. Prof. William J. Stillman's paper on Journalism and Literature will be read with disfavor by the journalist, and by the litte'rateur with delight. Mrs. Catherwood's agreeable serial is concluded. Lafcadio Hearn has a picturesquely written paper on life in Japan. Louise Imogen Guiney writes in terestingly about a forgotten immortal, Mr. James Clarence Mangan. There is a short story of Ital ian life by E. Cavazza; while the solid reading of the number is further augmented by a second pa per on "A People without Law," — the Indians, — by James Bradley Thayer:- by S. E. Winbolt's Schools at Oxford; and by some able reviews. One of the most striking articles in the New England Magazine for November is that by Mr. Frank B. Sanborn, on "The Home and Haunts of Lowell." Mr. Sanborn was a friend of Emerson and Thoreau, and his clever article on " Emerson and his Friends at Concord," in the same magazine, will be recalled by this one on Lowell. The article is illustrated with sketches by clever pencil and pen and ink artists, and a portrait of Lowell, by Rowse, hitherto unknown to the public. An interesting article, supplementary to the one by Mr. Frank B. Sanborn, is " Lowell and the Birds," by Leander S. Keyser. Walter Blackburn Harte makes a plea for a world without books. He thinks that education is not an unmixed blessing, as the greater the intelligence of individuals and peoples the greater is their capacity for suffering. The other contents of this number are varied and interesting. Particularly worthy of mention are Miss Laura Speer's article, entitled " John Howard Payne's ' Southern Sweetheart,' " and Albert Bushnell Hart's discussion of the causes of the defeat of the Confederacy in the War. Scribner's Magazine for November contains several notable illustrated articles on countries that are little known to American readers, including the first of several papers by Carl Lumholtz (the author of " Among Cannibals " ) on his explora tions in the Sierra Madre. There is also a striking paper by Napoleon Ney, the grandson of the great Marshal of France, on the proposed Trans-Saharian

Railway, which the French Government has ap proved. Alfred Deakin writes of the great feder ation movement in Australia, which bears -so manypoints of resemblance to the founding of this Re public. Another illustrated article is " The United States Naval Apprentice System," by Lieut. A. B. Wyckoff, U. S. N. George Hitchcock writes a third paper on "The Picturesque Quality of Hol land." A sixth article in the Ocean Steamship series is John H. Gould's description of the "Ocean Steamship as a Freight Carrier." The fiction includes another instalment of Stevenson's serial " The Wrecker," a short story by Octave Thanet; and there are poems by Duncan Camp bell Scott, W. V. Moody, Julian Hawthorne, and others. The complete novel in the November number of Lippincott's magazine is contributed by Mrs. Poultney Bigelow, and is entitled " The Duke and the Commoner." Two articles in this number that will be read with interest are the " Evolution of Money and Finance," by J. Howard Cowperthuait, and "The Restoration of Silver," by John A. Grier. Octave Thanet contributes an interesting story. "The Return of the Rejected; " and George Alfred Townsend gives some of his journalistic experiences in " An Interviewer Interviewed." Among other articles of interest to be noted are " Some Colonial Love-Letters." by Anne H. Wharton, an article embodying specimens of love-letters from William Penn, James Logan, and other worthies; "Associa tion Foot-ball," by Frederick Wier; and " Modern American Humor," by William S. Walsh. Poems are contributed by Clinton Scollard, Barton Hill, Harrison S. Morris, and others.

The Century has just " come of age," and in its November number begins its twenty-second year with some notable " features." Mr. Cole's engrav ings of the masterpieces of the Italian painters reaches a climax in the full-page blocks, after two of the Sibyls of Michelangelo, which are printed as a double frontispiece. The feature of the Novem ber Century which is likely to attract the most attention is probably the new novel, " The Naulahka," by Rudyard Kipling and Wolcott Balestier, the latter a well-known American now living in London. This is Mr. Kipling's first experience in collaboration, and the story is not only international