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Harper,s Magazlne for september.

Harper's Magazine for September.
The leading article In HarDer's Magazine for
September is "a General Election in England"
by Richard Harding Davis. who vIvidly de-
scripes his experiences as the companion of q
Conservative candidate during the exciting
campaign which returned the present Parlia
nsnt. Tho article is Illustrated from ten draw
ings by w. Hathereli.
Readers of "rhs Refugees which has been
published in book form since its completion as q
serial, will be interested in an article on DR.. A.
Conan Doyle's hero. Dulhut, by William Nc
Lehman, which appears under the title, "A Cen
tiemnn OF the Royal Guard" and is illustrated
by Reinhart. Two articles of biographical and
historical interest are Texas by ex-senator
Samuel Bell Maxey, and Edward Emerson
Barnard, - the director of the Lick Observatory,
by S. W.. Buinham. Both are illustrated.
THE Letters OF james Rsuseat LOWELL" by
Charles Eliot Norton, contains some Of the
characteristic correspondence of the poet dur
ing mis- college days and through the war
period. IAN Albert Durer Town. by Eliza
beth Robins Pennell, is a description of Rocam-
adour, illustrated with twelve charming
sketches by Joseph Pennell. In Down Love
Chelsea and Paisley of Old New York in a light
though sympathetic vein. The illustrations are
by W. A.. Rogers.
Colonel 7. 4. Dodge's series on Oriental riders
is continued by IN illustrated PAGER on the
Riders of Egypt and their mounts. Another
article of general interest in the numbsr is tfhe
Diplomacy and Law Of the Isthmiau Canals"
by Sidney Webster, which exhibits somsrof the
disadvantages to the United States of a ship
canal between the Atlantic and the Pacific.
The fiction of the September number includes.
besides irstalments of The Hands om3 Hunes''
| and Horace. Chase" two short stories, Cab
riel, and the Lost Millions of Perote, y by Maui
rice Kingsley, and 'sfhe Generals sword by
Robert e. v. Myers. The Editors Drawer"
also contains q short story, Her Sympathetic
Editor by Thomas Nelson Page.
In "A Gentleman of the Royal Guard in the
September Hd4per's Magazine, Mr.. William
McLennan describes the fortunes of Daniel d.
| Gresollon. Sleur du Lhut, the hero of DR.. A,
/ Conan Doyle's historical romance, 'The Re
f~ugees.'' Since its completion as a serial in the
| Moqnziac The Refugees" has been published
in book form by Harper & Brothers, with Mr..
! c. :. Reinhnrts Illustrations.
Miss Constance Fenimore Woolson's Amsri.
can story. Horace Chase Is drawing to a
| close, and its conclusion will be reached ia the
October Hdf Ders. Out of the materials OF
everyday life Miss Woolson has constructed
| one OF the STRONGEST serials OF the year. later
est has not been allowed to flag from the
bsginning, and the closing chapters are among
the most dramatic in the story,
"A General Election In England" in Hdrper's
MDguzins for September, is one of Mr.. Richard
Harding Davis's most entertaining pieces of
description. Mr.. Davis was O companion OF a
candidate during an exciting canvass. and the
American who reads this lively account of an
active English campaign VIII be disposed to
think an election in the United States a rather
tame affair. In the October Rdrper's Mr..
Davis will describe undergraduate Life at
Oxford as il appeas to a young mar who is
familiar with undergraduate life at "a American
university.