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 Rh thy with Morris's aims, and through personal friend ship, which began in 1870. "Cavendish," the great authority on whist, writes about contemporary •' Whist Fads," telling what is good in them and what bad. The Whist Congress, to meet in July, will find much in this article to discuss. C. D. Gibson concludes his papers on "London" with '• London People." It includes striking full-length portraits from the life of Phil May and Du Maurier — the latter sketched in June, 1896.

THE LIVING AGE, for all its fifty-three years of life, was never fresher, more vigorous or more valuable than now. Timely and able articles on the leading questions of the day, papers of interest and value, biographical, historical and scientific, are always to be found within its pages. The following partial contents of recent issues will give a slight idea of its world-wide scope and variety.

AMONG the noted writers who either by original or selected matter are brought together in the July num ber of CURRENT LITERATURE are Hamilton Wright Mabie, Richard Burton, Moses Coit Tyler, John Hay, Henry Van Dyke, M. W. Hazeltine, W. Robertson Nicoll, Lilian and Arthur T. QuillerCouch, D. T. MacDougal, Ernest Ingersoll, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, William Winter, Mrs. Hum phrey Ward, Norman Gale, Albert Bigelow Paine, John B. Tabb, Clinton Scollard, Gilbert Parker and George W. Cable, editor of the magazine.

McCbURE's MAGAZINE for July contains an article on the late Professor Drummond, written by his in timate friend the Rev. D. M. Ross. The source of Drummond's rarely equaled influence over men — assemblages as well as individuals — was his own charm of character; and Mr. Ross's paper deals especially with his personal traits. The actual daily life of the citizens of William R. George's " Boys' Republic'' — one of the most interesting philan thropic enterprises yet undertaken — is depicted in an article by Mary Gay Humphreys. The short stories in this number are by Conan Doyle, Anthony Hope, and Robert Barr.

THE July number of APPLETON'S POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY contains a thoughtful article on •• The Principle of Economy in Evolution," by Edmund Noble. The author shows that the whole of evolu tion, viewed apart from its secondary processes, may be summed up in the simple formula; — movement in

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the direction of least resistance. The curious psy chological conditions dominating the mob are dis cussed by Prof. E. A. Ross. He shows that a crowd, even an excited crowd, is not a mob. Saturn, so much feared by the ancient astrologers because of its supposed malign influence on the world, is the subject of an instructive paper by Clifton A. Howes.

THE opening article for the midsummer HARPER'S is a story, by Frederic Remington, of Indian fighting in winter, entitled " A Sergeant of the Orphan Troop." The illustrations are by the author, and in clude the frontispiece of the number, in color. In addition to this there are seven complete stories : "Sharon's Choice," by Owen Wister; "TheCobbler in the Devil's Kitchen," by Mary Hartwell Catherwood; " In the Rip," by Bliss Perry; " The Marry ing of Esther," by Mary M. M ears; "A Fashion able Hero," by Mary Herri Chapman; and "A Fable for Maidens," by Alice Duer. In •• The Inaugura tion," a companion article to "The Coronation," Richard Harding Davis contrasts our political and social life, as manifested in our greatest national ceremony with that of the Old World. In "The Hungarian Millennium," F. Hopkinson Smith writes of the distinctions and humors of the recent ex position at Buda-Pesth. " A State in Arms against a Caterpillar," by Fletcher Osgood, is an illus trated account of the ravages of the offspring of the gypsy-moth, which, having devastated large tracts in the suburbs of Boston, is being prevented from spreading throughout the country only by organ ized effort on the part of Massachusetts.

WHAT SHALL WE READ?

This column is denoted to brief notices of recent pub lications. H'e hope to make it a ready-reference column for those of our readers •who desire to in form themselves as to the latest and best new books. (Legal publications are noticed elsewhere.) MR. WARD has written a very bright and interest ing continuation of his wife's (Elizabeth Stuart Phelps) two stories, "An Old Maid's Paradise," and "A Burglar in Paradise." He calls his story The Burglar who moved Paradise, ' and the account of the burglarious moving of Paradise on two scows is infinitely amusing. The book is just what one needs to while away an hour during the summer vacation. i THE BURGLAR WHO MOVED PARADISE. By Herbert Ü. Ward. Houghton, Mifflin & Co, Boston and New York, 1897. Cloth, 51.25.