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many hoggish men who do not eat pork." He became admitted to the jury box, and was the only one who voted for acquittal in the challenger's favor, and procured disagreement. The verdict of the spectators to the prisoner seemed to be, " Saved by pork-chops."

LITERARY NOTES. An article in the October Rev1ew of Rev1ews by Percy R. Meggy, Secretary to the New South Wales Civil Service Inquiry Commission, throws light from the antipodes on some of the difficulties of the everpresent Civil Service problem.

Dr. Henry Sm1th W1ll1ams writing of "Politics and the Insane" in the North Amer1can Rev1ew for October, emphatically declaims against the preva lent custom of allowing partisan politics to enter into the management of asylums where the dependent in sane are cared for. In an article at once crisp and solid, Fred. Perry Powers discusses in L1pp1ncott's Magaz1ne for October "Ethics and Economics," and shows that the world's business must of necessity be conducted on business principles, and that considerations of philanthropy and sentiment, while of value in their proper place, are secondary, not primary. This paper is well fitted to prick some popular delusions.

In the October Popular Sc1ence Monthly Herbert Spencer shows in his paper on " Pro fessional Institutions " how the man of science and the philosopher are derived from the priest. The oldest science, astronomy, was first employed to fix the times for religious rites. The root of mathe matical science can also be traced down to the an cient priestly vocation.

Among the articles and stories announced for the November number of Harper's Magaz1ne are "A Pilgrim on the Gila,'' by Owen Wister, a longer tale of the West than he has hitherto written; a paper bv W. D. Howells on " Literary Boston Thirty Years Ago;" a description of his involuntary exile at a Central American port by Richard Harding Davis, called "Out of the World at Corinth;" and short stories by Harriet Prescott Spofford, Brander Mat thews, and Julian Ralph.

Scr1bner's Magaz1ne for October contains the first adequate account that has been published of the University of Ch1cago. Its author, Robert Herrick, is one of the Faculty. Having been a Harvard man, he is able to contrast the oldest and the youngest university. This article is a most effective account of the actual university life that has been created out of nothing in three short years. The reader will real ize that a tremendous educational force has grown beyond doubt of success in the middle of the conti nent, and that it is dealing with a class of students, men and women, and with social conditions that are seldom met with in Eastern universities. Mr. Orson Lowell has made a remarkable series of pictures from life to illustrate this article.

The fiction of the October Century consists of the closing chapters of Marion Crawford's dramatic novel "Casa Braccio," with a remarkable scene in St. Peter's at Rome, where two of his characters are accidentally locked in for the night. Mr. George A. Hibbard contributes a social sketch on a popular theme, entitled "An Earlier Manner," and Mrs. McEnery Stuart a very laughable sketch entitled "Sonny's Schoolin'," of particular interest to parents and educators; and there are three other brief and vivid stories by George Wharton Edwards in his series "The Rivalries of Long and Short Codiac."

Ex-Gov. James M. Ashley contributes a timely paper to the October Arena entitled " Should the Supreme Court be Re-organized?" Gov. Ashley's paper will be read with great interest. The same issue also contains a startling paper by A. R. Bar rett, an Ex-Government Examiner for Failed Banks, entitled " The Era of Fraud." It should lead to prompt action, looking toward protecting the people from unscrupulous guardians of their funds.

The October Atlant1c Monthly is rich in good fiction. Mrs. Ward's powerful serial, "A Singular Life," is concluded. There is a further installment of Gilbert Parker's " Seats of the Mighty," which in creases in interest with each succeeding issue. Fur ther chapters of Charles Egbert Craddock's "Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain " also appear. One of the most striking contributions is another Japanese study by Lafcadio Hearn, entitled " The Genius of Japanese Civilization." The third of Mr. Peabody's papers, "An Architect's Vacation," tells of " The Venetian Day."