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NEW ~BLICATIO
Harper,s Magazine for November,

For the certain reading of It's articles
HGTpe1'S Mdgazine does not depend
upon the artificial interest which the
mere fact of their appearance within
its pages is sure to excite. 1t does not
need to. Popular interest in the
Magazine exists before the Magazine
appears; for every number takes up
subjects which are before the worlds
mind as important topics for the
present and for the future. For ex-
ample, the November number con-
tains two articles of Pan-American
value, one by Thomas A. Janvier, de-
scribing 1.-THE Mexican Army, (Which
Frederic Remington illustrates with
fifteen drawings from life, and point
ing out what the excellent organiza-
ton of it's military forces signifies for
the future of Mexico; the other by the
former Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary of the Repub-
lie of Columbia to the United States
Hon. Ricardo Becerra-on The
Republic of Colombia" giving a trust
worry account of the resources and
the present social, economic, and po-
litical state of Colombia. Lafadio
Hearn, who by his West Indian arti-
Giles in this Magazine has earned the
title of interpreter of the tropics, tells
what he saw and heard and felt and
dreamed and unused upon AT Grand
Anse,' the ''Somnolent little black
| village of that bare east coast, where
there are no woods, no ships, no sun
| sets. . . only the ocean roaring forever
| over its beach of blank sand.n Grande
Anse is the home of some of the Mar
Unique p~orteuSes whom MI. Hearn
sketched i'll the July number. Many
rare portraits of actors give added
value to a paper by Laurence Hutton
on IA Century of Hamlet" reviewing
the history of the tragedy in America,
beginning with the first presentation
in New York, November, 26, 1T61.
Prof. Charles Eliot Norton tells the
wonderful story of "The Building of
the Cathedral at Chartres, an illus
tration and a revelation of " the great
medieval period of creative energy"
w. Hamilton Gibson Identifies for his
readers the notes in 1.-THE choral OF
the BIRDS that one hears on a perfect
day in early June. He furnishes
striking portraits ofthe pretty singers
and calls his article Bird Notes
Joseph Pennell justifies with many
Illustrations the words of Richard
Wheatley. describing the old minister
city of York Thomas w. Knox,
Lucy G. Lille and John Elliott Cur.
ran contribute short stories. and
Charles Dudley Warner concludes his
bright novel of contemporary Ameri-
can life, "a Little Journey in the
World.n Wordsworth's sonnet, 1.-THE
River Duddon-the Stepping Stones,
is illustrated by Alfred Parsons; and
of living poets, Zadel Barnes Gustaf-
son and b. II. Buckley contribute re
spectively a poem, Song OF Indian
Summer and a sonnet, Love, the
Crown of Creation In the editoria
departments, Charles Dudley Warner
arraigns last summer; George William
Curtis speaks of what New England
has done, describes 1.-THE Game o.
Newport, . and explains the working
of a municipal miracle" William
Dean Howells comments on an out
spoken essay concerning fiction by
Senior Valdes, and takes up a strons
position III regard to the nature anC
function OF the novel; in moderr
life.