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proclaimed immortal. It is as the champion of a cause and not as a free lance that M. Zola courts the ridicule which attaches itself to the name of " Per petual Candidate."

IN the Argentine Republic the service of trains is appallingly irregular, chiefly owing to the bad state of the permanent way, which, when once laid, is left to take care of itself. The permanent way in some parts of the line is in such a dilapidated condition that almost every train is thrown off the rails. This astounding fact is contained in a recent report of the railway company concerned. The rate of traveling, too, is astonishing. At one spot, on a go-as-youplease local line, no train ever travels faster than two and a half miles per hour. One may vary the mo notony of the journey by getting out and taking a quiet stroll along the line, or stopping to pick up pretty flowers; there is no fear that the train will catch you up.

LITERARY NOTES. PROF. WOODROW WILSON of Princeton Uni versity contributes an article, upon " The Making of the Nation," to the July ATLANTIC. Another politi cal paper of importance is by E. L. Godkin, editor of the " Nation," on " The Decline of Legislatures." A distinctly literary flavor is added to the issue by the printing of hitherto unpublished letters of John Sterling and Emerson. Edward Waldo Emerson edits them, and adds an interesting sketch of the cheerful and heroic Sterling. Three short stories of unusual merit are : " One Fair Daughter," by Ellen Olney Kirk; " A Life Tenant," by Ellen Mackubin. a story of army life in Texas; and " Nég Créol," by Kate Chopin, a delightful short story of low life in New Orleans. THE beginning of a new volume of the KKVIEW OF REVIEWS is signalized by an expansion of the name of that very successful and widely read periodical. It has now become the AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REVIEWS. The July number contains a variety of important contributed articles. Among these we note Edward Cary's able and interesting character sketch of President Seth Low, Dr. Gould's expo sition of the plans of the City and Suburban Homes Company of New York City for a model suburban settlement. Baron de Coubertin's vivacious account of " The Revival of the French Universities," Gen eral Greely's survey of '• Higher Deaf-mute Educa tion in America," and Sylvester Baxter's sympatheticreview of Edward Bellamy's new book.

THE complete novel in the July issue of LIPPINCOTT'S is "A Mountain Moloch," by Duffield Osborne. The hero is an American naval officer who leaves his ship for love of a native princess and the adventures and bloodshed are worthy of Mr. Rider Haggard in his palmiest days. Dr. Francis E. Clark, founder of the Christian Endeavor Societies, who is now visiting the trees of his planting in remote parts of the earth, furnishes a vivid sketch of •• A PlagueStricken City," written during a recent sojourn at Bombay when the bubonic plague was at its height; and Lawrence Irwell tells of the theory and practice of" Suicide among the Ancients," /'. e., the Greeks and Romans. McCLURE's MAGAZINE for July opens with an in teresting account of the actual daily life in a little "Republic" where the citizens and governors are young boys and girls from the poorest and most crowded districts of the city of New York. Other features of this number are a humorous story by Rob ert Barr, describing the subjugation of the " bully of the school " by an ingenious Western schoolmaster; an adventurous tale by Conan Doyle, dealing with those picturesque kings of the high seas who lived, like several distinguished playwrights, by taking their own where they found it; and the account of the voyage of the "Mayflower" from Governor Brad ford's quaint and naive " History of Plymouth Planta tion," lately presented by the authorities of the Bishop of London's Library at Fulham, England, to the State of Massachusetts.

THE very successful group of college articles in SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE is concluded with Judge Henry E. Howland's account of " Undergraduate Life at Yale" in the July issue. Judge Howland has kept in close touch with Yale life from 1850 to the present clay, and his article is the very cream of nearly half a century of reminiscences and anecdotes. As a mem ber of the University crew of 1854 his remarks on rowing are unusually pertinent. A picture of the '54 crew, from an old daguerreotype, is one of the most interesting pictures. Exactly four hundred years ago (June 24, 1497), John Cabot discovered the main land of the American continent and started the tide of Anglo-Saxon immigration which was to dominate North America. Lord DufTerin, who is the chairman of the committee which has in charge the Bristol, England, celebration, has written for this number an article expounding the significance of Cabot's discov eries, and their relation to the development of free institutions in Canada and the United States. Walter Crane has given a charming quality to his article on •• William Morris," because of a fine artistic sympa