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 Rh trations of the four Gospels, Kentucky vendettas, the ascent of Mt. Ararat, Dutch, French and American art, the savage mother of Ivan Tourgu£neff, the beau tiful bookbindings of the present day, the consular service and the spoils system, the government of German cities, hard times and business methods, military drill in the schools, out-door nature, the re form of secondary education, an honest election machine, etc. Scribner's Magazine for June offers a tempting table of contents, which is as follows : " Maximilian and Mexico," by John Heard, Jr., illustrations by L. Marchetti and Gilbert Gaul; "The Lighthouse," painted by Stanhope A. Forbes. By Philip Gilbert Hamerton, with full-page illustration (frontispiece) and portrait of Forbes; "The Dog," by N. S. Shaler, il lustrations by Ch. HerrmanL6on; engraving by E. H. Del'Orme & Schussler; "A Portion of the Tempest," by Mary Tappan Wright; " The Story of a Beautiful Thing," by Frances Hodgson Burnett, illustrations by John GUlich; "Life," by Edith Wharton; "John March, Southerner," chapters XXXV. -XLII., by George W. Cable; "American Game Fishes," by Leroy Milton Yale, illustrations by Charles B. Hud son; " A Pound of Cure," a story of Monte Carlo, chapters VII. -VIII., by William Henry Bishop (con cluded); " The Future of the Wounded in War," by Archibald Forbes.

Our naval policy is one of the leading topics treated editorially in the Review of Reviews for June. In the same connection, projects of ship-canal building in relation to seaboard defense are discussed. Other matters of general interest receiving comment in the "Progress of the World" department this month are : the Senate's tariff muddle, the Great Northern Railway strike and arbitration, the coal miner's strike, the rationale of Coxeyism, the New York Constitutional Convention, the question of woman suffrage, the temperance movement and news from the college world. English political and social movements receive due attention also in this depart ment of the magazine.

A most important paper of great practical interest to thinking men of all shades of opinion is Hamlin Garland's plain, straightforward exposition of " The Single Tax in Actual Operation in New Zealand," in the June Arena. Mr. Garland's paper on the single tax in operation is an important contribution to the literature of the land question. Other important papers are : " The Nationalization of Electricity," by Rabbi Solomon Schindler; "The Fall of Babylon,"

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a poem, by James G. Clark; "Election of Post masters by the People," by Hon. Walter Clark, LL. D., of the Supreme bench of North Carolina; "The Sixth Sense, and How to Develop it," by Paul Tyner, is a most remarkable contribution to the literature of psychical research; and " The Higher Criticism of the Hexateuch," by Prof. L. W. Batten, an eminent Episcopalian scholar. Elbert Hubbard contributes a valuable paper on the A. P. A. movement, in which he points out the end of this movement.

As befits the season, the June Atlantic has a restless air about it. A record of a summer spent in the Scillies by Dr. J. W. White, the eminent Phila delphia physician, is followed by a shipwreck-suggest ing poem, "The Gravedigger," by Bliss Carman; Mr. Stoddard Dewey writes of "The End of Tortoni's," the famous Parisian cafe, closed a year ago; Dr. Albert Shaw explains how Hamburg learnt her lesson even before the cholera struck her, and now is one of the most perfectly protected cities; Mrs. Cavazza gives a bright account of the marionette theatre in Sicily; Professor Manatt completes his excursion "Behind Hymettus," and Mr. Frank Bolles continues his wanderings in the Provinces. The fiction, be sides Mrs. Deland's notable novel, is contained in one of Mrs. Wiggin's graphic stories, "The Nooning Tree." A group of Carlyle's letters not before printed, and reports of his conversation, are given by his friend Sir Edward Strachey.

BOOK NOTICES. Law. The Supreme Court of the United States. Its History, by Hampton L. Carson, of the Phila delphia Bar, and its Centennial Celebration, February 4, 1890. Prepared under direction of the Judiciary Centennial Committee. Com plete in twenty parts, fifty-six etchings. Third edition. A. R. Kellar Co., Philadel phia, 1894. Parts 50 cts. each. The republishing of this admirable work in parts is a most excellent idea on the part of the publishers, as it is now brought within the means of every mem ber of the legal profession, no one of whom should fail to avail himself of this opportunity of possessing this valuable contribution to the legal history of our country. We have in former issues of " The Green Bag" expatiated at length upon the great merits of Mr. Carson's book, and it is sufficient now to simply repeat that, in our opinion, no work has ever been