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Scribner's Magazine for September has a nota ble list of contributors, including F. Marion Craw ford, Thomas Nelson Page, Carl Dumholtz, Octave Thanet, Mrs. James T. Fields and Harriet Prescott Spofford. Marion Crawford writes of Bar Harbor from the point of view of one who has seen most of the summer resorts of the world, and has spent con siderable time at Bar Harbor viewing it as an out sider. With his power of description and his abun dant experience he writes with a vivacity and fresh ness that is unusual in articles of this kind. He has caught the very spirit of the place picturesquely, and suggests its quaint features socially with a very amus ing account of the evolution of the present Bar Harbor from the old fishing village.

The Atlantic supply of fiction in September is somewhat more than usually large. Besides Mrs. Deland's "Philip and his Wife," there are three stories — "Tante Cat'rinette," by Kate Chopin, the writer who is coming into deserved prominence through her pictures of Louisiana life; "For their Brethren's Sake," a powerful tale of a Derbyshire town, during the Great Plague, by Grace Howard Pierce; and Mrs. Catherwood's "The Kidnapped Bride," the last of a series of early French-American stories. " Old Boston Mary : A Remembrance," by Josiah Flynt, tells the tale of a strange old woman of the tramp class so vividly as to leave one uncertain whether it is fiction or fact. In Mrs. Louise Herrick Wall's sketch, •« In a Washington Hop Field," too, there is so much of human interest that one may almost think of it as a story. " Up Chevedale and Down Again," by Charles Steward Davison, is again a record of actual events — a thrilling narrative of Alpine adventure.

The Century for September contains two enter taining papers adapted to the season for the re-open ing of the schools, the first being an account of "School Excursions in Germany," by Dr. J. M. Rice, author of the volume, " The Public-School System of the United States." This paper includes a record of an excursion of this kind in which Dr. Rice participated, and has the advantage of being the first article on the subject printed in America, where the idea of school excursions l1as already taken root, and promises to spread. The article is fully illustrated by Werner Zehme. The other paper is on " Play grounds for City Schools," and is written by Jacob A. Riis, whose studies in New York tenement-house life are well-known. An important paper, which will be in the nature of a revelation to many readers, is

the article by Joseph B. Bishop, entitled " The Price of Peace, "in which is set forth the wide-spread sys tem of blackmail practised by legislative strikers upon the New York business community.

Judge Walter Clark, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, writes in the Sep tember Arena on "The Election of Senators and the President by Popular Vote, and the Veto." Judge Clark is in favor of the election of senators by popular vote, but is opposed to the extension of the principle to Presidential elections, as he believes it would imperil the republic. But he considers the powers of patronage and the veto vested in the Pres ident anomalous and dangerous, and would have them curtailed.

The ideal magazine prints not only timely articles on events and places, but stories of the right length to read aloud by the evening lamp. The September Harper's contains " A New England Prophet," the story of an Adventist alarm, by Mary E. Wilkins; "The General's Bluff," founded on a frontier cam paign of General Crook, by Owen Wister; "The Tug of War," a tale of English men and women in Greece; chapters of "The Golden House," Charles Dudley Warner's novel of New York society, and the first of a two-part story of Narragansett Pier by Brander Matthews.

BOOK NOTICES. A Selection of Cases and Other Auihorities upon Criminal Law. By Joseph Henry Beale, Jr., Assistant Professor of Law in Har vard University. Harvard Law Review Pub lishing Association, Cambridge, Mass., 1894. Cloth. S5.00. In a volume of nearly 1000 pages Prof. Beale has collected a number of leading cases upon almost every branch of the criminal law. The selection has been made with evident care and discrimination, and for the purposes for which the work is designed it appears to be admirably adapted. It is a students' book, and in order that they may derive the greatest possible benefit from its study, the head notes of each case have been omitted. For the purposes of the practicing lawyer, however, an index has been added, enabling one quickly to find the authorities upon any subject therein contained. One or two of the cases are now printed for the first time, being taken from a contemporary manuscript, in the