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Scribner's Magazine for November cele-
bra,ed the tenth birthday of that excellent
periodical The color of the cover Is changed
to brown. Millett's famous picture. - The
Sower," forms the frontispiece. The Illus
trations are profuse and many of them
very fine. With this number is begun the
second and concluding part of Eugene
Schuvler's illustrated life of Peter the Great,
entitled .sPeter the Great Ruler and Re-
former" also a new short serial by new
writer. 'sTiger-Lily," by Mrs. Julia Schayer.
There is an article upon Gladstone. MIR.
Steadman writes of Walt Whitman, and Mr..
Nadal has an essay on ARENAS Ward. An
illustrated paper on " Bordentown and the
Bonapartes" will open new and curious
chapter of American society to most readers
The article on IS TableauX," with picture by
Miss Oakley. goes more thoroughly than usual
into the artistic capabilities of such enter
tainments. 'The secret of Second-sight' is
authoratively revealed by an sex conjurer.
But there is no paper in the number which
will be read with greater interest, especially
by the elders of this generation Of his coun-
trymen than that on the late President
Leonard Woods, of ROwdoin llege, by
Mr. Richard Henry Dana, who was once, in
his youth, under the care OF Mr.. Woods
The poems of the number are by III. H.
Boyesen, Mrs. Piatt, ii. H., and others.
In the editorial departments. DIR. Holland
has something to say about the origin and
history of SCRIBNER.
Blackw ood's Magazine for October is re-
ceived. The serial - DIR. Worries School y
is continued; . Bush Life in Queensland is
concluded, and the bad people die and the
good ones are married. An interesting arti-
Gle on Memory" gives various peculiarities
of memories, and concludes that what man
wants in memory is not a master-power. but
a servant 'The Enchanted Bridle' is
founded on an Ayrshire legend of a compact
with the devil. and its result The Roof of
the World describes the plateau in Central
Asia Ii, 900 feet above the sea. Other very
good articles are - Lois: a Sketch and
Society and the Salons before the French
Revolution" indicating the influence of these
salons of the eighteenth century on the terri
BILE dramas which were enacted at its close.
The Atlantic Monthly for November pre-
sents its readers fine treat in its well filled
pages. The opening article is an interesting
story by Henry James, Jr., entitled g The
Portrait of Lady" This is followed by
poem by Thomas b. Aldrich, "The Jews
Gift, A. D., 1900" The other articles are
'The Silk Industry in America" by S. ].
Barrows; His Best" short but interest
ing story; part III of an eliminate Life of a
Noble German Family The Future of
Weather Foretelling," by N. S. Shaler; IA
Sleeping City," by f Fl. Clement; ''Philos-
ophy and Apples G. p. Lathrop; "A Search
for the Pleiades," Thomas w. Higginson;
part VIII of "Reminiscences of Washing
ton-The Tyler Administration, ls43-lS45;"
'North Wind in Autumn Anna Head;
"What is Fact" Elizabeth Stuart Phelps;
'Letters and Notes from England Richard
Grant White; Mrs. Aldrichs Fiction;"
Recent Poetry" The Contributors Club
presents a number of articles upon various
subjects, which are very readable and contain
many sensible suggestions and criticisms.