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was then measured in Reading Gaol, the meas urements attached to the name under which he was convicted in France were secured, and a comparison of the two sets of measurements proved incontrovertibly that they related to one and the same person, and that therefore he actu ally was in prison in France at the time the Windsor jeweler was being swindled. The Home Secretary at once ordered his release.

LITERARY NOTES. The Review of Reviews for November, in its editorial department (*« The Progress of the World ") has some suggestive paragraphs bearing on the present attempts at "municipal housecleaning " in the great cities of New York, Chicago and San Francisco, and takes the occasion to emphasize cer tain lessons to be learned from European municipal experience. In speaking of Glasgow's system of street-cars, owned and operated by the municipality, the editor points out that this responsibility was not undertaken by the city until the municipal govern ment had been tested with many large enterprises which it had shown its fitness to control and operate successfully; it is now managing its street-car service, says the Review, as successfully as the best of our American cities manage their fire departments.

The ever pressing problem, How can reforms be effected in the government of American cities? is ably considered by Mr. H. C. Merwin in the Novem ber Atlantic Monthly, in a paper entitled " Tam many Points the Way," wherein he urges that the same agencies — efficient organization and leader ship — which have assisted Tammany to do evil, might, be equally helpful in a good cause. Mr. George Birkbeck Hill, the editor of the " Life of Johnson," reviews, in a very readable fashion, some of " BoswelTs Proof-Sheets, " which are now in the unrivaled collection of Johnsoniana, belonging to Mr. R. B. Adam, of Buffalo. The other contents of this number are full of interest.

material, and the installment is rich in portraits, in pictures of places, and in carefully drawn views of typical scenes in Napoleon's life. Among the illus trations are a hitherto unpublished portrait of Napo leon at sixteen, drawn by a school-fellow, and a facsimile of the last page of his exercise-book at school, containing a curious reference to St. Helena.

The complete novel in the November issue of Lippincott's is " Dora's Defiance," by Lady Lind say, an author who has made her mark in England, though little known as yet in this country. It is a brightly told story of a very peculiar young lady who could find no 1nterest in life till it came too late to be taken in the conventional way. The other contents of this number are of unusual interest.

McClure's Magazine for November opens the promised Napoleon series with fifteen portraits of Napoleon in early manhood, most of them reproduc tions of famous paintings, and portraits of his father and mother, and other persons closely related to or intimately associated with him, accompanying an interesting account, by Miss Ida M. Tarbell, of his career down to the time he assumed command of the army in Italy. The portraits are from a very large and carefully chosen collection made by the Hon. Gardiner G. Hubbard, and Mr. Hubbard himself introduces them with a valuable letter describing the classification and varying merits of the existing por traits of Napoleon. If the succeeding parts of the series maintain the high level of this one — and there is every reason td believe that they will, for the editors announce that they have a hundred and fifty notable Napoleon pictures yet to present — the series must make, as a whole, one of the most at tractive products thus far of the recent Napoleon revival. A paper of very great interest and value in the November Arena is Martha Louise Clark's " The Relation of Imbecility to Pauperism and Crime." She takes the position that we cannot hope for any appreciable abatement of the evils of pauperism and crime so long as society turns the morally weak and diseased loose into the world, for whose struggle they are quite unfit, to fall into the ranks of the helpless pauper or criminal classes, and to multiply their kind.

The Century for November signalizes the open ing of its twenty-fifth year by the beginning of one of its most important enterprises, " The Life of Na poleon," by William M. Sloane, Professor of History at Princeton College. The first chapters deal with Napoleon's childhood and youth, including the CorHenry Loomis Nelson contributes to the Novem sican period and his school-days in France, and in ber Harper's a delightful article, entitled "At the this period the history has the value of a unique full ness. Much care has been bestowed in the selection I Capital of the Young Republic," in which he offers of illustrations from the large amount of accessible 1 glimpses of official life at Washington at the begin