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eghty engraVlngs, eight out OF the eighteen
articles being illustrated. The Number opens
with an interesting description of the Channel
Islands, accompanied by nineteen illustrations.
AS a fit sequel to the article in the April
Number on the Concord Fight, we have in this
Number an article ON Concord Books and Au-
thors, illustrated with portraits of Emerson,
Hawthorne, Thoreau, A. Bronson AlcOtt, Miss
Louisa Alcott, Frank B. Sanborn, pictures of
the Concord Library, and views of Walden
Pond and on the Assabet.
James Parton's "Caricature in the Hogar-
THAN PERIOD gives dramatic account of the
great financial delusions of about 1920, in
France and England; and devotes considerable
space to Hogarth's pictures. The article is pro-
fusely illustrated.
An entertaining illustrated paper by Charles
Nordhoff treats of the Cape Cod people and
their ways, with characteristic glimpses of
Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard.
Professor Rau's third paper on the Stone Age
in Europe treats of the Troglodyt ytes-the dwell
ers in the rock caves of the Vezere valley-and
shows their manner of life. The illustrations
represent the implements of that strange peo-
Pile, their personal decorations, and their re-
markable delineations of animals on Eofn and
ivory.
An amusing illustrated paper, entitled "a
Wedding March, with Variations" describes
some novel marriage ceremonies at clergy
mans house.
T. B. Aldrich contributes charming poem,
In an Atelier," illustrated by Sol. Eytinge.
The same artist illustrates Mrs. SaDgster's
poem "Eric's FuneraP'-a story of the old
time, and full of tender feeling. Other poems
are contributed by A. F. Will, Wallace Har-
vey, and Julie NJ. Burnett.
The developement Of our mineral resources is
very comprehensively treated BY I. Sterry
Hunt, being the eighth paper of the First Gen.
tury Series.
A new serial tale-a domestic story of New
England life-by Julian Hawthorne. is COM
menced in this Ndmber: and Miss Thackeray's
novel, "Mss Angel" is continued. Two short
stories are contributed, ''Paul Eyeleths Por-
trait" by Helen w. Pierson, and "Enfranchse-
mem" by D. R. Castleton.
John Bigelow commences a very notable
series of Haytian Proverbs.
Readers interested in natural history will be
delighted with Mary Treats brief paper on the
architectural habits of birds.
The Easy Chair discusses some questions Of
| etiquette in public places; Addison and old
| fashioned books; party niokrames; and the Ma
| tional Academy exhibition. The Scientific Re-
| corp presents an admirable summary of recent
scientific progress; and the other editorial de-
| partments are up to their usual standard of ex-
| cellence.
The June number of the Atlantic IS emphati-
| cally an American number, each article being
| devoted to American topics though Mr.. James
| Americans hold converse under the sky of Italy,
| 1t opens with poem by icb.-'Spring in
| New England" and closes with one by Lowell,
-"Ode read at the Concord Centennial"
| curious happening, for the first is a poem for
| Memorial Day, and thus the new and
the old begin and close the number. Be-
tween these two poems there are some notice.
| able articles. Robert Dale Owen has remark
able bit Of political history regarding the pas
| sage of the fourteenth amendment, in which he
| shows that universal suffrage would have been
| postponed to the present year had it not been
| for the illness of Senator Fessenden. Presi-
| dent Eliot of Harvard has a noteworthy article
| on Wise and Unwise Economy in School,
| which will excite considerable controversy and
| much needed discussion. There are some mar
rative papers,-one on "The California Ranch"
by Stephen Powers; another on the Cruise of
the Rappahannock in Calais Harbor:" and an
amusing number of Mark Twan's "Old Times
on the Mississippi" Henry James Jr's novel,
Frederick Hudson" grows in interest. And
there are shorter stories by Mrs. Launt Thomp-
son (''story of Contr aband'). p. Deming
i ("Benjamin jacques, and one called "Boring
| e. fba oh
there are others by Celia Thaxter, Mrs. Patt,
Edgar Fawcett, and Mrs. Moulton. The edi-
torial departments of Recent Literature, Art,
Music and Education are increased by one on
the Drama, containing a notice by the Editor of
Mr.. Raymond as Colonel Sellers. The number
is an excellent one, all the topics being of i'm
mediate interest, aud freshly treated.
The reprint of the London Quarterly Rsvie,o
for April, by the Leonard Scott Publishing Co..
Al Barclay Street, N. Y, has been issued
The first article is long and interesting re-
view of Macreadys "reminiscences, giving
sketch of his life and connection with the stage
which began at the of his early age of sixteen
years.
Article II. is an exposition of the work of
Indian Missions athe difficulties they meet with
and the progress they have made, both in secu-
lar and religious education. Looking at the
results achieved by Indian missions, it is evil
dent that they suggest reasons both for disap-
pointment and for encouragement"
Article III. Lord Shelburne-First Marques
of Lansdowna. He was Prime Minister Of
England during brief but most important Pc
riod, and has called the ablest and most
accomplished minister of the eighteenth CEN
tury. These memoirs, which describe the peri
cd between 1877 and 1866, seem to be similar in
character to the Greville Memoirs.
Article w., National Education in the Uni
ted States, has for its object, the correction of
prevalent English ideas regarding the working
of the American, Educational System. The
subject is discussed in all its bearings, but the
result of the system is not considered sufficient
ly successful to warrant its adoption by other
countries.
Article V. deals at length with the controver-
sy between Mr.. Gladstone and DR.. Newman,
Cardinal Manning and Monsignor Capel
The notice of Livingstone's Last Journals,
(Article vi. differs from previous reviews of
that work by directing attention to the curious
and valuable notes made by the great traveller
on various natural phenomena, which contain
many suggestive facts.
Article VII. The StatueIof Memnon, refers
particularly to the voice with which that cele-
brated statue was won't to greet the rising sun.
1t is shown clearly that there was no priest
craft in the case; in fact, the priests themselves
were as ignorant of the cause as any of the visi-
tors The sounds were produced by the pas
sage of rarefied air Though the crevices of So
norous stone. When the statue was reconstruc-
ted, and the crevices filled up, the voice was
| mute.
Article VIII The Transition from Medieval
to Modern Politics is an attempt to throw light
on the Imperial and Papal movements of our
own time, by carefully considering similar ac-
tions in the sixteenth century.
Article TX England and Russia in the East
shows the relative positions Of those nations in
| Asia, and discusses the probability of farther
advance on the part of Russia making it neces'
sary for England to prepare to hold India by
| force of arms.
If YOU should lay Scribner for June on the
| table before me, (says some one writing from