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In the August number of Current Litera-
ture the readings from new books include
the thrilling auction scene from Stevensons
''Wreckers,' together with selections from
Mrs. Edwards interesting book on France
of Today, and Curtis Grafton on Lowell.
The Gossip of Authors, gives some new
light on rising American authors and lively
gossip of literary doings in foreign fields. In
the Current Fact and Opinion department a
large variety of topics receives mention.
making it a record of the general news of
the world. Meanwhile the electric depart
ments will be found of value. The selec-
tons are made with much care, and give
the utmost variety possible, thus enabling
the reader TO keep abreast of the times.
New York: Current Literature Publishing
Co., % cents per number, IT,:
Bright in cream-white cover the Cen
fury for August reflects even in its exterior
the spirit of the midsummer season. 1t is
a number of great variety and interest.
The ambitious biography of Columbus, by
Emilio CASTELAR,, reaches its climax in de-
scription of the appalling difficulties and
dangers of the great voyage. There is an
animated description of an ascent of Full,
the famous mountain of Japan. Mary Hal
lock Foote's The Chosen Valley and Henry
b. Fuller's The Chatelaine of La Trinte
present the one its fourth the other its third
installment, X. Cleveland Cox writes of
Gloucester Harbor, and illustrates his paper
with highly idealized sketches of the fishing
crafts which would puzzle the old shippers
Of Cape Ann. The article on the Worlds
Fair architecture describes with handsome
illustrations the buildings TO be devoted to
electricity and mining, The names of
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Edmund Clarence
Stedman and Richard Henry Stoddard make
the number a notable one in its poetry.
There are several short stories of true
strength and vitality. New York; The
Century Company, Union Square; $500
per year.
The August number of the Review of
Reviews contains character sketch of Mr..
Grover Cleveland, written by Mr.. George
F. Parker, who has recently edited Mr..
Cleveland's speeches. The sketch follows
the well-received article on President Har-
rison, written for the July Review of Re
views by General Thomas j Morgan. This
August number Of the Review of Reviews
is particularly interesting. One of its keen
est articles is sharp, and very uusparing
attack upon Cahenslyism, by prominent
American Catholic editor. who declares that
within certain ing of the Catholic church,
there has been, and is most unworthy con-
spiracy to prevent the Americanization of
European emigrants to this country. The
article upon University Education for
Women. Discusses especially some Euro
pean tendencies, and gives interesting facts
about the progress of women in the nj
&C Iur inh T1,f,l art1n .,t
the month sum up the principal political,
social religious and literary uttcrances and
achievements of the past few weeks, and it
is strong in portraits of distinguished char
acters, American and foreign. New York
Is Aston place % cents number.
When we have mentioned that the August
number of the Atlantic Monthly contains
the opening chapters of a new autobiograph-
ica serial by Rev. Edward Everett Hale,
entitled A New England Boyhood, we have
said enough to insure for it a generous wei
come by every intelligent reader. Hut
aside from this the number is brilliant
one. 1t has three page poem IN memory
of Shelley by Edmund Clarence Stedman.
which is in noble measure and abounds
in musical cadences. Rev. William
Elliot Griffis, has an interesting paper on
Townsend Harris, First American Minister
in Japan. Mr.. Crawford's striking serial,
Don Orsino, is continued, and Ellen Olney
Kirk gives us the second part of her clever
story, A Florentine Episode. William
Cranston Lawton's account of and transla-
tons from The Persians of .Eschylos, Pro-
fessor W. J. Stillman's critical paper on
The Revival of Art, with Miss Vida II. Sead-
der's second paper on The Prometheus Tn
bound of Shelley. furnish the more weighty
matter of the number. A Swiss travel
sketch, by an anonymous writer, a paper
by Bradford Torrey, and various reviews of
new books, English and foreign, complete
very noteworthy issue of this favorite liter
AIRY monthly. Boston; Houghton Miifiin
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