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MAGAZINES.
With the August number The Forum,
completes its seventh volume The leading
article III this number is by John G. Carlisle,
speaker of the House of Re- resentatives, on
The Repu hcan Prog anime" He ex-
plains and defends the Cleveland admins
tratlon especially as regards the expendi-
lures OF public money, and predicts that
the public patience will exhausted with
the extravaganza of the present admisiStra-
ton fore it closes. The article contains
q balance sheet showing the ex-
letration. Another political article
is by ex-Gov. Hoadly of Ohio on
Methods Of Ballot Reform" The most
serious warning that has recently been
made against the fluence of unas I'M ated
f0relgne on our social aid political life. is
given by Bishop A Cleveland Coke Of
Northern New rk. who doubts the perpe-
tulty of our institutions if present tenden-
cleS continue. In an article on 'Phohibi-
Jion and License" Senator Ingalls, Of Kan
sas concludes that license Of tle liquor
traffic has in the main been ii failure, and
he shows that prohibition does prohibit il
Kansas. The article contains a review IF a
long series of experlme It's with both syS-
tens. The Forum Publishing Company
253 Fifth avenue, New York.
Scribner's Magazine for August is a
most seasonable issue, containing spirited
outdoor papers on the game of lawn tennis
and on tarpon fishing; two papers on Ten
nyson, whose seth birthday is thus COM
memorated; short stories, by H. H Boyesen
Brander Matthews. George Parsons Lath-
rop, and E. c. Martin, new writer, and
valuable additions to the electric and rail
way series. Form in Lawn Tennis, by
James Dwight, NJ. D.-a very high
authority 49, treats of the game from
using / Simultaneous photographs OF
the Sears Brothers and Pettitt, three noted
players, as the basis of q more accura
analysis of the principal strokes in the game
than has been heretofo 9 possible. TIE
photographs have been most skillfuly en-
graved. The end paper by Prof. T. R.
LOunsbury, on THE Two L0cksley Halls .
is a sympathetic and discriminating presen-
ta.iou Of IennysoA's attitude to Aard life in
youth and in old age. Everyone who sees
the electric light ia consta t use, and knows
nothing of this mysterious source of illu
minatIoD, should beluterested in President
Henry MorJou's article on ELECTRICITY III
Lighting third in the series which
wa begun il the June issue. Charles Serb
ner's Sons, New York.
Mr.. Gladstone contributes to the August
number of the North american Rerielv a
brief tribute to the late Mr.. Allen Thorn
dixie Rice. Three articles which will attract
attention relate to the John~iown disaster.
One Of these is by Gov Beaver OF P nu-
syivania, who writes On the No cy Sent
to JohnstoWu.' No one Is 50 we'll qualified
rs Gov. Beaver to describe the way IN which
it has beeu sed TIE actual work of relief
is picturesquely told by Miss Clara Bar
ton, president of the American National
Red Cross, who has been III Johnstown since
the earliest moment she could reach the
scene OF the awful Disaster TIL. third OF
these articles, The Lesson of Conemaugh, y
IS furnished by Maj j. ". Powell, director
OF the United States geological survey. The
lesson which lie enforces Is that dams should
be built strong enough to do the work re-
quired of them. DR.. Lyman Abbott has
"A Word with t! of. Huxley D ting out
the famous scientists inconsistency in the
two definitions which he gives of The word
Ggnostc. No. East Fourteenth street,
New York.
The August Magazine of american HIS
tory is model Of elegance, and as usual
the number is we'll filled VITA admirably
vii ten ard valuable papers Dr.. Eyerett's
Earliest American People" touc .es upon
a theme dear TO every antiquarian reader,
and 1t Is so presented as to interest alike the
old ana the young, tee wise and the uu-
learned. "Engla DIS Struggle with the
American Colonies" by Dr. Will IN NJ.
TayloH a scholarly article Of a different
character, is one OF the prominent feature
OF the number. Hon. j. o. Dykman cou-
cluGes his series of papers of 1.-The Last
Twelve Days Of Major Andre" in this num-
be-. J. T. Dunn, Jr. confribu es "Hhe
Founding of , ST Vincennes. and William
S. Pelleueau writes of 81 PhiiDse Patent
in the Highlands" furnishing portraits of
Col. and Mrs. Roger Morris, and an inter
estl G map. NJ S. Lambs opening article
is a vigorous nen-picture of the Career al
a Benz Efficient Enterprise-now 104 wears
Old TAB Broadway, New York.
Harper easily holds its own with the mum
Der for Angus. Russian art, as seen at
the kremlin in Moscow, affords an excel
lent subject for Theodore Child, and the
rtlc!e Is q main attraction of the number.
James Lane Aliens paper on County
Court Day III Kentucky" like all his Ken
tuctiy sketches, ha. q value of its own, and
| that a high one j. Wells Chenpuey's ac-
count of the growta of photography from
the time of Daguerre, and a sketch of the
fan from early times down to tue present
are other illustrated papers that reade s
will appreciate. John Lilies paper on
WESTMINSTER Eiiigiesn describes thing
hich most readers probably d. not know
TO exist-an actual royal wax works snow
in W estmlnster Abbey, now, however,