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THE news that Great Britain has leased Delagoa Bay for thirty years from Portugal cannot be very pleasant news for Dom Paul. He may wonder if it was good policy to charge Queen Victoria a million sterling for mental and moral damages connected with the Jameson raid. The acquisition of Delagoa Bay gives Great Britain full control of the only sea port of the Transvaal and, were it not for the strained relations between the British and the Boers, this transfer of the Bay from the indolent, thieving Portu guese satraps to a government run on business prin ciples would be the greatest boon to the Boers. LITERARY NOTES.

THE complete novel in the August issue of LIPPINCOTT'S is •• Two Daughters of One Race," byEdgar Fawcett. It is a domestic tale of love and blindne;s, with a single hero, and two heroines whose characters are in marked contrast. " Private Barney Hogan," by Lieutenant Charles Dudley Rhodes, and "Two Letters," by Frances M. Butler, are brief and pointed army stories. The other contents of this number cover in small space a wide variety of topics. Frank H. Sweet writes with full knowledge of " Bird Artists," and Joanna R. Nicholls of "The Marine Hospital Service." "Our Street Names" are dis cussed by William Ward Crane.

THE August McCi-uRE's is issued as a special Mid summer Fiction Number, and contains a complete novelette by Rudyard Kipling, dealing with school life in England and army life in India. There are four or five shorter stories — stories by Conan Doyle, Robert Barr, John Kendrick Bangs, and others, each more or less novel and enticing in incident and in terest. Madame Blanc, the well-known novelist and writer in the " Revue des Deux Mondes," gives a very lively and vivid sketch of the " Paris Gamin"; and in illustration of this, the French artist Boutet de Monvel has made a drawing of the gamin from the life, which is the frontispiece of the number. Hamlin Garland, drawing on unpublished documents and the testimony of eye-witnesses, supplies a very precise and detailed description of Lincoln's first meeting with (¡rant. JOHN MUIR, author of "The Mountains of Cali fornia," and the most charming writer about moun tains and forests that we have, contributes the open ing paper in the August ATLANTIC on " The American Forests." A paper of unusual strength and signifi cance, both on account of the author and the subject, is " Strivings of the Negro People," by W. E. B. Du Bois. The fiction of this number is remarkable

both in quantity and quality. Frances Courtenay Baylor contributes the opening chapter of a pic turesque story of Virginian life, in two parts, entitled "Butterfield & Co." Other stories are "Out of Bondage," by Rowland E. Robinson: "The Holy Picture," by Harriet L. Bradley; and Guy H. Scull contributes a sketch of unusual quality entitled "Within the Walls."

IN AHI'LETONS' POI'ULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY for

August Dr. T. D. Crothers considers " New Ques tions in Medical Jurisprudence," concerning the moral and legal accountability of inebriates, especially for their crimes and their contracts. The use of the thyroid gland in medicine is of special and pe culiar interest, because, instead of having been de duced empirically like most other features in medical practice, it has been adopted as a logical conclusion from adequate premises. It is the subject of a paper in this number by Dr. Pearce Bailey.

THE August number of SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE sus tains the well-earned reputation of the previous fiction numbers. It contains six complete short stories by Rudyard Kipling, Kenneth Grahame, Frank R. Stockton, Blanche Willis Howard, Molly Elliot Seawell, and Jessie Lynch Williams, and it appeals to many kinds of taste, for they are, respectively, a rail road story, a story of childhood, a farcical tale, a pathetic story, a fighting story, and a new-journalism story. The cover is one of Gorguet's most ef fective designs in color.

IN " Around London by Bicycle." the opening article of the September number of HARPER'S MAGA ZINE, Elizabeth Robins Pcnnell details a series of rides which bring the traveler to a greater variety of places of literary interest than is accessible elsewhere within the same compass. "The Milkweed," the last unpublished work of the artist-author, William Hamilton Gibson, is illustrated with his characteristic delicacy. "George du Maurier, by Henry James, a view of the artist and writer as he appeared to an intimate friend and fellow-craftsman, is important as an interpretation and exceedingly interesting. The short stories of the number comprise : A humorous romance of the golf links, " The Lost Ball," by W. G. van T. Sutphen; " The Look in a Man's Face," a sketch of Bohemian life in New York, by M. Urquhart; "Without Incumbrance." a tale of life in a New England fishing town, by Emerson Gifford Taylor, and " Her Majesty, by Marion Manville Pope.