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canvas at San Antonio it was charged against my friend. Judge King, that he was an aristocrat. It was openly proclaimed among the tamale-stands on Milam Square that he was a dude. The san dal-shod sons of sunny Mexico, who had been imported expressly to vote the Democratic ticket, were told, in thunder tones, that this aspirant for judicial honors actually wore socks. Gentlemen and fellow-citizens, I am prepared to refute this foul slander. Judge King is a man of the people; he consorts with the ' horny-handed sons of toil; ' he does not wear socks." And, suiting the action to the word, Judge Tucker turned up the trousers of his official brother, and proved his assertion by one of Irving Browne's " Practical Tests in Evi dence." Judge King accepted the situation, and set up the drinks.

CONTENTS OF THE MAY MAGAZINES.

The Arena. American School of Sculpture, William Orchvay Partridge : An Evolution of Christianity, Prof. Orello Cone; Women Wage-Earners. Helen Campbell; Sin cides and Modern Civilization; Railway Tariff, James L. Cowles; Some Economic Features of Public Li braries, Tessa L. Kelso; Industrial Schools in the Netherlands, Myra A. Dooly; Practical Theosophy, Kate Buffington Davis; Four Strange, True stories, Louise Chandler Moulton.

The Atlantic. The Columbian Exposition and American Civiliza tion, Henry Van Brunt; " 'T is Sixty Years Since," in Chicago, John Dean Caton; An Island Plant, I., Mary Catherine Lee; Admiral Saumarez, A. T. Mahan; Individuality in Birds, Frank Bolles; The Old Hall and the Portraits, Sir Edward Strachey; The Japanese Smile, Lafcadio Hearn; European Peasants as Immigrants, N. S. Shaler; The Queen of May, Louise Chandler Moulton; The English Question, James J. Greenough; Frances Anne Kemble, Henry Lee; Hawthorne at North Adams, Bliss Perry.

I RECALL one of the incidents of our dinner at Lindenwald, which serves to illustrate the uncon ventional relations which existed between the exPresident and his son. The plate set before me for one of the courses was most exquisitely deco rated, and with the gaucherie of an inexperienced The Century. At the Fair (illustrated), Mrs. Schuyler van Renscuriosity, I could not resist the temptation to turn selaer; Decorative Painting at the World's Fair it over and look for the maker's mark. (illustrated), W. Lewis Fraser; The White City. "Is not that a beautiful piece of china?" in quired the Prince. '• It has a history. It belongs Richard Watson Gilder; Sweet Bells out of Tune (conclusion), Mrs. Burton Harrison; The Knight of to a dinner-set made at Sevres for the King of Pentecost, Harriet Prescott Spofford; Recollections Italy, before the fall of Napoleon. I discovered of Lord Tennyson, John Addington Symonds : An it in Paris; and although it was expensive, I pur Embassy to Provence (conclusion; illustrated), chased it and presented it to my father. Ought Thomas A.Janvier; Benefits Forgot, VI., Wolcott he not to be grateful for such a magnificent Balestier; Personal Impressions of Nicaragua (illus trated), Gilbert Gaul; The Chevalier de Resseguier, present?" "Indeed, I am grateful," said the ex-President; Thomas Bailey Aldrich; Joseph Bonaparte in Bor" perhaps more grateful for this than for another dentown, F. Marion Crawford; Leaves from the Autobiography of Salvini (illustrated), Tommaso present you made me about the same time." Salvini; The Queen and the Duchess (illustrated), "Another present! What is it? I do not M. O. W. Oliphant; John Muir, John Swett; Mr. remember it," said the son. Gadsbury's Brother, M. Frances Swann Williams; "It was a bill of exchange for acceptance for Relics of Artemus Ward, Don C. Seitz; An Inside something more than the cost of the china! " re View of the Pension Bureau (by an employee of the Bureau), A. B. Casselman; With the Tread of plied the elder. '• Yes! yes! " said the Prince; " I intended Marching Columns, S. R. Elliot: Writing to Rosina that the entire transaction should represent a (in two parts; illustrated). Part I., William Henry beautiful case of filial and paternal affection. I Bishop. presented you with the china, — that was filial. I The Cosmopolitan. You paid for it, — that was paternal. Could any In the Footsteps of Dickens (illustrated), Harger thing be more complete?" I Racan; Omega — The Last Days of the World (From "The Van Burens of New York and the j (illustrated), Camille Flammarion; Pedagogical Value New York Barnburners," by Hon. L. E. Chitten- of the Novel, M. S. Merwin; A Traveller from Alden, in the " Independent." truria. W. D. Howells; Prison Life at Belle Isle