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fame. There are short stories by Emma B. Kauf man and Frederic M. Bird, the latter liberally illustrated. The brilliant correspondence of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thoreau occupies the first place in the Atlantic for the month of May. The letters are edited by Mr. F. B. Sanborn, of Concord; and they give characteristic glimpses of the life, phys ical, mental, and spiritual, of the two friends dur ing " the ' Dial ' period," as the editor calls it, — in other words, 1843. A fit companion-piece to these letters is the Roman Journals of Severn, the friend of Keats, which give quite a thrilling pic ture of the events preceding the fall of Papal Rome. These papers are edited by William Sharp. Mr. Crawford continues his Italian serial, " Don Orsino." The short story of the number, with the odd title " A Cathedral Courtship," is furnished by Kate Douglas Wiggin. Two unsigned articles will attract attention for their cleverness, the first being " A Plea for Seriousness," the second " The Slaying of the Gerrymander," a keen thrust at this political monster. Scribner's Magazine for May opens with the second article in the series on " The Poor in Great Cities." This series of papers cannot fail to be productive of much good by arousing a deep in terest in a class which is entitled to the warmest sympathy of its more favored brethren. " Rapid Transit in Cities," by Thomas Curtis Clarke, is a timely article on a most interesting subject, and one with which the author is well qualified to deal. The other contents are " Unter den Linden," by Paul Lindau; " Sea and Land," by N. S. Shaler; "Paris Theatres," by William F. Apthorp; " The Reflections of a Married Man," by Robert Grant, and " The Wrecker " (chapter xxii.), by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne.

ber of illustrations. The opening paper of the number is one of reminiscence by the painter Healy, who is residing in Paris, on Thomas Cou ture, one of the striking figures in Modern French art. Mr. Stedman prints his third paper on the subject of poetry, this time dealing with " Creation and Self-Expression." James Lane Allen de scribes, and a number of artists illustrate, " Home steads of the Blue-Grass." Examples are given of the work of the American painters, Carl Marr, J. H. Dolph, and the sculptor, Herbert Adams, with a sketch of these men by Mr. Fraser of the Cen tury Art Department. To speak of the serials, Hamlin Garland's Western story, " 01' Pap's Flaxen," is concluded; and further instalments are given of Dr. Weir Mitchell's " Characteristics," and "The Naulahka," by Kipling and Balestier.

With the May number the Cosmopolitan enters upon its thirteenth volume, and the number is cer tainly a most remarkable one in the list of distin guished contributors which it presents. " A Noble Lover," by James Russell Lowell, is given the place of honor, followed by articles by Marion Wilcox, Gertrude Smith, Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, John Hay, Luther G. Billings, William W. Campbell, Hamlin Garland, Henry James, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Edgar Fawcett, S. P. Langley, Lilla Cabot Perry, Sarah Orne Jewett, Theodore Roosevelt, Richard L. Garner, Murat Halstead, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Brander Matthews, Frank R. Stockton, Edward Everett Hale, and William D. Howells. What an array of notabilities! What a feast for lovers of good literature! The illustrations are superb.

BOOK NOTICES. The table of contents of the May Century is quite remarkable in its list of prominent names. In the way of short stories there are two very in teresting ones; namely, one by Wolcott Balestier, posthumously printed, called " Captain, my Cap tain! " and the other " A Gray Jacket," by Thomas Nelson Page. Of a particularly timely character is the article on " Coast and Inland Yachting," by Frederic W. Pangborn, with a num

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