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The September number of Jenness Mil
Ter illustrated monthly is quite up to its
usual standard of excellence. The words
and music of charming song, THE Lul-
laby Sung Ne BY Mother forms promi
nent feature The words are by Foster
Coats, and the music by Stephen Massett
Mrs. Jenne>s Miller has an instructive arti
Gle on How to Become "A Picture i'll Your
Clothes There are sketches and port
rats of two famous foreigners.th Empress
of Germany and Jenn Ingelow.- Jenness
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| The September Eclectic opens an excel
| lent issue with an article by Mr.. James
| Bryce, author of The American Common
cath, entitled Migration of Races of Men
| full of historic interest. Rev. Horace Wal
| Ter contributes an article on an important
African problem under the title of Side
Lights on Uganda. Two articles Town
| Life 'nder the Restoration and \ Journey
| to England in 1868. deal with the same
period of English Social Life, and a very
| interesting and picturesque one at that
| Coventry Patmore's Essayettes (adelcctable
word by the way are charming little
papers marked by this delightful writer's
| felicity and 'lelicacy of expression. The
article, Midsummer Magic, by Vernon Lee,
| is timely and agreeable study, and Mr.
Osborne Morgan coutr0yerts the pesslmisiie
views of Lady .Ieunc IN his Are We Really
| So Bad. The Russian Crisis, the visitation
of famine nos affecting the Muscovite
people, is treated by Il former Siberian TX
| lie. MANY readers will turn with peculiar
| pleasure at this time to the exquisite poem
| by William Watson. Shellcv'> Centenary
| and the prose paper on Mary Wollstone-
| craft Shelley The number has some ex
ecllont short stories: The Little Napoleon
| of Carbon The Candidate for West
| Drum. and \ Trial by Lynch Law. There
are not few bright short papers in addition
to those we have specially cited, and the
| whole number may he pronounced full of
excellent reading both light and grave.
| New York: T.. Il. Pelton IA Eight,
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| Mrs Delands new serial The Story of
a Child opens the atlantic Monthly for
| September. Tie opening chapters are de-
voted to the history of an imaginative child,
| brought up with some rather formal rela-
| lives in the old town which is the scene of
some of Mrs Dcland's other stories. Charac-
tiers already familiar to her readers are also
| introduced in these chapters. Next in inter
est if indeed it should not take first rank
are the beautiful verses addressed to Oliver
| Wendell Holmes. on his eighty third birth
day. bv John t;reenleaf Whittier,
now in his eighty fifth year. Mrs.
olive Thorne Miller has paper on
The Clif-Dwe lers in the Canon the
cliff -dwcllers being not savage tribe of
men, but flock of birds. Mr.. Bishop con
tinues his papers on An American Home in
Europe. and tells about A French Moving,
4 Year in Mediterranean Villa, and 4
House hunting Tour in England. Stuart
| Stcrpe has sonnet called Night after Night
anil Mary !. Jacques sketch entitled
! Catherine. the Catherine in question being
one of those wonderful. model servants
which are believed to exist abroad. although
in this country appearing only IN the pages
of fiction. Mr.. Haie's delightful pa
pers on 4 New England Boyhood
are devoted to his life at home. and have all
the liyeiiness and brightness of their author
and are a really valuable picture of domes-
tic life in New England fifty years ago.
Mr.. 5. II. Ellott's article on The Romance
of Memory. Miss Scuddcrs third paper on
ShelIev's Promctheus, Mr.. Crawford's in
stallmcut of his exciting serial. Don Drsino
not to forget poem by Elizabeth Stuart
PheIps called The Lost toiors are the
chief remaining contents of well COM
posed number. Boston: iioughton. Milf
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The Review of Reviews for September is
so edited as to remind its readers that there
are. even in Presidential year, many other
| -; a., hat. claim sk,r IN,
the general attention. In its Thickness
freshness and originality this September
issue of the Review is fully equal to any of
its predecessors. Its a remarkably gen
eral testimony. on the part of the read
ers of this enterprisipg periodical,
that every succeeding number is fresh
| surprise. and welcome one The Sep
TENDER number has for its frontispiece a
spirited full-ength portrait OF the great
French scientist Camille Flammarion.
standing by the side of his telescope in the
observatory at Juvisy; and the Progress
of the World"--that is, the editorial
opening department of the Review
HIGGINS with discussion of
Mars and its inhabitancy, illustrated with
ChiapareIli'- map Of the surface of Mars,
and PORTRAITS Of Professor Holden of the
Lick Observatory and Francis Cation
chairman of the Royal observatory at Kew
LONDON. Flammarion is not only great
astronomical authority, who makes bold
predictions as to our future intercourse
with the inhabitants of Mars, but he i. also
one of the leaders in the physical research
movement and the general study of
the phenomena of mind that occupies so
Iprominent a place in the Investigations of
our day. The department of Leading
Articles of the Month in this number of
the Review of Reviews derotes large
amount of attention to psychical research.
aud contains magnificent portraits of Prof.
lC'harles Riehet, the distinguished French
scientist: Prof. William James of Harvard;
Prof. Henry Sedgwiek of Camhsidge, Eng
land Mr. Alfred X. Wallace, DIR. Richard
Hoigsen and Mr.. F. W. H. Myers.
lTReview of Reviews, $50 year. Is
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