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you please. The fiction of the month, in all respects striking, is rendered unique by the addition of "Noah's Ark," in which I. Zangwill, in his masterly way, takes his reader from the Ghetto of Frankfort, Germany, to distant Niagara Falls. Dr. C. W. Doyle, author of "The Taming of the Jungle," contributes a pic turesque story of the Chinese quarter of San Fran cisco. A strong and timely paper, by Maurice Thompson, entitled "The Court of Judge Lynch;" Mrs. Ellen Olney Kirk's admirable article, the second in the series of articles " On Women, by Women, for Women,"' entitled, "Woman: A Phase of Modern ity''; Miss Annie Hollingsworth Wharton's second paper on "The Salon in Old Philadelphia"; "The Devil's Bridge,'' a seasonable legend of the Philippines, by Charles M. Skinner, and •• Wireless Telegraphy," by George F. Barker, LL.D., are all of interest at the moment. The Century for August is a midsummer and travel number. " The Present Situation in Cuba " is graphically stated in a brief article by Major-Gen. Leonard Wood. Jacob Riis writes of " Feast-Days in Little Italy." The first feast described is in honor of some Italian village saint — "Just-a-lik-'a your St. Patrick here," as one of the celebrants explained to President Roosevelt of the Police Board, who accom panied Mr. Riis to Elizabeth street, and took five chances in a raffle for a sheep. John Burroughs gives a fascinating glimpse of the wild life about his slabsided cabin near the Hudson river at West Park. In "The River of Tea," Miss E. R. Scidmore writes of the Yangtsze-kiang, and especially of the city of Hankow. In a learned paper on "The Churches of Auvergne," Mrs. van Rensselaer introduces effectively the picturesque episode of Peter the Hermit's preach ing of the first crusade; '• Old, unhappy, far-off days, and battles long ago" are the theme of Professor Wheeler's •'Alexander in India." Milder matter is fur nished in Jonas Stadling's picturesque " People of the Reindeer," and very thrill1ng is John R. Musick's description at first hand of a town " In the Whirl of a Tornado," and the accompanying learned article on "Tornadoes," by Cleveland Abbe. Short stories by Chester Bailey Fernald, Mary Tracy Earle and Seumas McManus tend to round out the number.

F1ct1on is the leading feature of the August num ber of Harper's Magaz1ne. Among the short stories which it contains are "Allie Cannon's First and Last Duel." by Seumas McManus; ••The Lady of the Gar den," by Alice Duer; "The Tree of Knowledge," by Mary E. Wilkins; ••The Angel Child," by Stephen Crane : ••The Sorrows of Don Tomas Pidal, Reconcentrado," by Frederic Remington; "A Duluth Tra gedy." by Thomas A. Janvier; and ''When Mrs. Van Worcester Dines." by Anna Wentworth Sears. The main story in "The Drawer" is "A Compounded Felony," by James Barnes. There are further install ments of '•Their Silver Wedding Journey," by W. D. Howells, and ••The Princess Xenia." by H. B.

Marriott Watson. The more serious features are Mr. Sandham's article on '• Haiti the Unknown," an other chapter of Dr. Wyeth's "Life of General For rest," Admiral Beardslee's paper on "Episodes of the Taiping Rebellion." and Lieutenant Calkins' study of "The Filipino Insurrection of 1896."

The fiction number of Scr1bner's Magaz1ne has come to be an annual event of importance to writers and readers of short stories. The frontispiece and a story, "The Play's the Thing." show illustrations in color by a young man, W. Glackens, who has the cleverness of the modern French illustrators applied to New York themes. Richard Harding Davis tells. in "The Lion and the Unicorn," a love story of a young American playwright in London. Mr. Thomp son contributes "The Trail of the Sandhill Stag." with his own poetic illustrations. It tells how the love of the chase grew and developed in a boy. but with far higher results than the mere love of slaughter. Thomas Nelson Page contributes the tale of a negro lynching in the South, entitled "The Spectre in the Cart." In addition to its fiction this number also contains the conclusion of Senator Hoar's article on Daniel Webster; more letters written by Stevenson from Bournemouth, many of them to William Archer, the dramatic critic; a short paper on "Japanese Flower Arrangement," by Theodores Wores.

The August Atlant1c is unusually attractive. Miss Johnston's " To Have and to Hold " easily takes the lead among current serial fiction, while Mr. Hopkinson Smith's lively and patriotic story, "The Man with the Empty Sleeve"; Mrs. Phelps-Ward's thrilling " Loveliness "; Mrs. Prince's pathetic picture of French rural life, "The Flail of Time"; and Miss Dupuy's humorous and pathetic "In a Mutton-Ham Boat," furnish an interesting variety, both in style and subject. In "His Brother's Brother," Colonel T. W. Higginson writes delightfully about the late John Holmes, the less famous, but to many minds not less able, younger brother of the Autocrat.

In the Amer1can Monthly Rev1ew of Rev1ews for August the editor comments on educational con ditions in the South, with reference to the future of both the white and colored races. In the same maga zine is the address delivered at the Capon Springs. W. Va., conference in June by Dr. J. L. M. Currv. one of the foremost educational leaders of the South, and an active executive officer of the Peabody and Slater funds. In "The Progress of the World,"' the questions connected with the Manila censorship and Secretary Alger's resignation are discussed, and also the differ ences between Secretary Gage and the Civil Service Reform League.