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Lug NoVemDer Number. CO ng the FIJI
ty-trst volume of Hdrper's = in
itself a volume of rare pict Wy
excellence. The November nun. ,,oens with
finely illustrated article on the wing Gla-
clers of California by John Muir. This paper
is fresh and exceedingly valre' =
tion to scientific literature. literary
point of view, the most interesting paper in
this number is James T. Fields contribution
entitled Barry Cornwall and some of his
Friends crowded with characteristic and
hitherto unrecorded "reminiscences of the most
eminent English writer's of the Wordsworthian
epoch, and illustrated with eighteen portraits
ana facsimile of one of Procter's poems.
James Parton discusses recent French Car
icture, going over period of half century
and presenting an,sdmiraby selected group of
pictures W. e. Webb, in "Air Towns and
their Inhabitants" gives graphic portraiture
Of the mushroom towns of Western clviliza-
tion. The American Dairy industry-espec-
tally as the result Of associaton-is the subject
OF fully illustrated paper by Edward j.
Wickson. A Catskill fairy tale, entitled
"Rapp, the Gnome King" by Virginia w.
johnson, with six beautiful illustrations by
Fredericks, will prove attractive to the younger
readers of Harper In the First Century,
Series there is this month comprehensive re-
view of the progress of popular education in
this country, by Eugene Lawrence. The Hon.
8 Cox continues his papers on Legislative
Humors. Julian Hawthorne's Garth is con-
tinuee, giving glimpse of the hero college
life. Edward Everett Hale contributes to this
number short story, "The Modern Psyche"
written in his happiest style.
The poetry of the number is contributed by
r. Fl. Stoddard, T . B. Aldrich, Elizabeth
Stuart Phelps, Celia Thaxter Nora Perry, and
Mary N. Prescott. The Editorial Department
fully sustain the high standard OF excellence
which has made them so importanta feature of
the Magazine.
The atlantic Monthly for November makes
brilliant opening with the first two chapters of
Mr.. Howells's new novel. "Private Theatrclas."
the scenery and persons OF which,sre distinctly
American and very striking. This is followed
by Charles Dudley Warmers cat the Gates of
the East" trayel-sketch, fresh and full Of
color, in which sentiment and keen fun are
charmingly blended. Useful information finds
worthy exponent in Coloael Warnings final
paper on Sanitary Drainage" and this is fol-
lowed by the eleventh chaptea of Mr. James's
"Ro1erick Hudson" Charles Francis Adams,
Jr, begins his long-expected series of articles
on railroads, with an Interesting account Of
some great railroad accidents. Mrs, Kemble's
"Old Woman's Gossip " continues it's upfail-
ing supply of curious anecdotes, and George
Cary Eggleston takes ns into the region of
historic "reminiscences in his account of life in
he
number treats of Hans Christian Andersen's
short stories, and is by Horace E Scudder, the
American translator of Andersen. Besides
these contributions, there are poems by T. B.
Aldricb, Mrs. Thaxter, Edward Fawcett and G.
T. Lathrop; and the departments of Music and
Education are entertaining as well as instruct
i've.
st. Nicholas begins its third volnme with
telling number-fresh, brig ht varied, healthy.
1t contains some twenty-five interesting con-
tributions; it gives US articles from more than
dozen Of the best writer's in the country. In
the excellence and variety of its contents, as a
single number it could hardly be surpassed.
1t crowds strong story by one fine writer with
an instructive sketch or a dainty poem by
another. From Mr. Brooks's serial. The Bow
Emigrants-which is just begun and promises
an amazing store of adventure-to the rhyme
of Little Dutch Gretchen with its quaint little
picture, it would be hard to find a single dull
or commonplace article.
And the artistic merit of the number is equal
to the literary. The illustrations generally are
very beautiful: the frontispiece-a reproduce
tion of Sir Joshua Reynolds portrait of
Penelope Boothby"-is wonderfully fine,
Among the most notable of the other pictlres
are the Illustrations to Mr.. Brooks seri al BY
Thomas Moran aud W. L. Sheppard, and the
very comieal drawings by Frank Beard
Bret Harte's first novel, which has been ex-
pected with so much interest, is begun as a
serial publication, in Scribner's Monthly for
November-(the beginning of the eleventh vol
ume of that magazine). Gabriel Conroy is the
title of the story, Of which seven chapters are
here published. The scene is in that Western
country with which Mr.. Harte has made the
world familiar, and the few who have read the
entire story in advance pronounce it a powerful
work. The series on American colleges begins
in this number, with an article on the old
William and Mary College, of Virginia, by the
wel-known Southern writer, John Esteu
Cooks. Eugene Thomson publishes a chapter
on Inc Curlosites OF Longevity, illustrated
with pictures of celebrated ''cases," ancient
and modern. Another curious illustrated
paper is by Sophie B. Herrick on Glass
Sponges, and India and its Native Princes are
also sketched with pen ana pencil. The fol-
lowiHg contributions should be mentioned:
The Old Germania Orchestra; The Hotel of the
Future, by Gail Hamilton; The Goethe House
at Frankfort; and poems by Boyesen, Louise
Chandler Moulton, Sydney Laner and others.
Dr. Holland, in Topics of the Time, writes
about The Magazines New Year, The Po-
litcal Outlook, Mr.. Moody and his Work, and
American Honesty. In The Old Cabinet Sem
timentality is dlscu ssed.
The publishers announce that DR.. Hollands
Story of Sevenoaks will be concluded in De-
cember, and that Mr.. Hale's Philip Nolan's
Friends will begin in the January number.