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'Mingo' gives a pretty accurate idea of
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MAGAZINES,
The Continent, like wine, grows better
with age. The July number is full of in
teresting and valuable matter. The edi-
torials, short stories, poetry and miscel-
lany are all excellent. Our Continent
Publishing Company, New York.
The Outing for July comes along with
the breath of the hills and the scent of
summer flowers in it. The first article is
an illustrated description of the Catskills,
where one can still evidently find nature
at her best without getting beyond the
bounds of civilization. The various
'eycling descriptions are particularly
readable, Mr.. Hume describing French
bulI-fght and recOunting some Rhine
legends in a vein Of light sentiment,
while Mr.. Fiske touches up Belgium
wheeling with humorous severity, and
President Bates tells us, in his funny way,
of a drive with his wife. The Wheelman
Company, Boston.
The July Manhattan has humorous
short story, "Plain Fishing" by Frank
r. Stockton, the author Of that amusing
sketch. ssThe Lady or the Tiger?' It has
also biographical and critical paper on
the Earl of Dufferin, written by j. l..
Whittle, the Earl's intimate friend, and
one of the staff of the Lord Chancellor of
England. The Earl became so well and
favorably known in the United States,
while he was GoYernOr-GeneraI of
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to interest a large number Of persons in
This country. Frank Vincent, Jr., has an
interesting article on s'White Elephants"
The number is an especially brilliant
one. Temple Court, New York.
The July Eclectic contains a very fine
steel engraving of Gen. Gordon, whose
fate is now a matter Of such interest to
England. and, indeed, to the world. 1t
also presents as usual many excellent
points. and includes number of season.
able and weighty articles. The place of
honor is given to a paper on Cardinal
Newman one Of the most remarkable
men of the age, by Richard III. Hutton.
Prof. Edward H. Freeman is represented
by a fascinating article entitled "Some
Neglected Points of History" in which
this brilliant historian is seen at his best.
Matthew Arnold's American lecture on
emerson" is reprinted as an essay, and
will excite renewed interest in this form.
Is Bond street, New York.
THE well-knOwn English writer on
political subjects, Mr.. T. Fl. S. Escott,
editor of The FortRigbtly ReUiel1, con-
tributes to the July Century careful and
critical estimate, including some anec-
dotes Of John Bright as an orator and
Darliamentarian. He concludes that the
great English radical has an innate con-
seryatism which has saved him from ex-
travagance, and although he considers
him neither a great administrator nor
legislator, he shows why he was indispeH-
sable TO the legislation Of his time-as
an Eeminently faithful representative Of
the English character" A frontispiece
engraving after a full-length photo
graph accompanies the article. Julian
Hawthorne has an interesting and MARIA
tive paper on the sEScenes of HawthOrne's
Romances,'' Concord, Boston, and Brook
Farm. which formed the background of so
many of his stories. The number contains
a poem entitled "Nine Graves in Edin-
bro'., by Irwin Russell, the versatile
writer Of negro and dialect verse, who
died few years ago. The Century Com
pany, New York.