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May number OF The Century and Ii
so interesting that the reader will be
inpatient for the second instaIment.
continued, while Mary HalIock Foote's
"Ceur d,Alene" is concluded In this
number. The first part Of Janvier's two
part story, "a Loan of Half
Orphans" is intensely interesting,
while everyone viii enjoy "Mr.
life story by Richard Malcolm Johnston.
ssTheir i and Their Entrances" by
George 4 n bard; "Flssh Light by
DOM" by lorpelia Atwood Pratt, are in
teresting stories Of very different char
acter.
The poetry of the number is by Thomas
Bailey Aldrich, Edgar Fawcett, w. p. Fos-
Ger, James jeffrey Roche, Nathan Haskell
Dole, Richard Underwood Johnston,
Charles q. ID. Roberts and Charles Battell
Loomis.
Among the other articles are "Frag-
ment," from the pen OF James Russell
lowell; "Hunting an Abandoned Farm In
New England, William Henry Bishop;
"Old Dutch Masters,n Timothy Cole,
.s1mai Iovan Iovanovfch"-A by Nikols
Tesla Capture Of the Slave Ship Cora"
by Milburn Hall; "Ths ,imitatiys Func.
Joshua Royce; "Dagnan- Botveret, !" Will
lam A. Coffin, and "Book binding of the
phst," by Brandsr Matthews. 49,,
The Century Magazine for May 10 more
interesting than ever, each paper, story or
poem being OF merit, while the perfect
tertaining.
TIE CENTURY MAGAZINE New York.
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"Homc and Country" for May is as in
teresting as ever. Unlike many maga-
hi N far "a ~ tnAf fcol {a "A
up Of many short stories and arti-
cles so that instead of de-
voting large part of the en-
tire number to two or three articles
Chat are Of interest TO a certain class only
the editor presents monthly that con-
tsining to every member Of the family.
There are the short stories which in
clude "Mr. Densmore's Stradivarius" by
Samuel Il. Kiser; "An Error and Its
Consequences" Josie r. Nichols;
spectre @ s Sentinel tine by n E y Krebs ras The The
department Of poetry contains many de-
lightful verses by Joel Benton, William
Erickson, K. Lake Delano, Frances
Pierson Chace, Mary M. Scott, John
Fowler, r, 8. Williams, +. M. Ray,
robert Wilkinson and Belle shreve
are "in the Love- Gods Domain" by
on Cape Cod" Aivan c. Nye:
"The Union SOLDIER Hon. John
a. Pickler; wine Drinking" George
+. ormsbyi ".Ths sociology OF fAnimsls,"
stantinople.,' Thomas NJ. Carpenter;
.How L stepped Onto the Platform
Captain Jack Crawford; "Are Women
Mentally Inferior to Men," +. j. Amy;
s.Artificisl Flowers Mary Shuman; "St.
,rns,h "a ssW ~, vv'rs Il an H n ~ wSnS-
Williams. o
6oME AND COUNTRY. New York.
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"The Humanitarian" is one OF those
magazines that 1t Is pleasure to read, for
it Is sure 70 contain many articles that
are novel, bright and entertaining. The
list of contributions to the magazine il
certainly as catholic as the articles and
they are of sufficient personal prominence
TO make their opinions worthy of
DIR. George Z. Kingsbury's articles
about hypnotism; Bishop Barry in "The
Ireland on "Sosial Purity''; and Morley
Roberts on "The True Function of Cam
nibalism" are of the greatest interest.
In the May number DR.. Kerr writes
about the Habitual Drunkards," RI.
Webster M. p, considers the position OF
"The Illiterate Voter" w. III. wilkins has a
paper upon Anarchism, Mrs.A. Richardson
discusses "Women and Gambling" and
the editor, Victoria Woodruff Martin,
writes about claw and Common Sense.J
While the April number is rather the
more interesting there are many interest
ing and instructive papers In the current
Issue.
The HUMANITARIAN, London. Eng.
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Those who reed the May number of
Gcribner's Magazine can easily UNDER
stand the reason OF its increasing
popularity. The serials are by such
w. Cable and William Henry
Bishop, while most entertaining articles
are written by Edwin Lord Weeks, "Some
Episodes Of Misunderstanding; Octave |
Ihanet, "The Provincisls"; Philip Gil
bert Hamerton, "a Corner in q Mar
ket"; John J. Bourke, 1.-THE American
Congo; Aline Gorren, "WomanIine,s IS as
Profession; Paul LEICESTER Fort, ga |
New Portrait OF Franklin"; Clara Sidney |
George Bird Grinneil, SCiimblng for
White Goats" and +. j. stimson, "The
Et hics of Democracy"
Poems are contributed by Edith M.
Thomas, Charles @. ID. Roberts and |
Melville Upton, while Edith Wharton
presents one of her charming stories in |
"That Good May Comes Taking IL all in
Gil the May number Of Scribner's in un- |
usually entertaining and unusually in
structive.
omlBNERs MAGAZINE, New York.
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McClure's Magazine for May is a Grant
a subject particularly |
appropriate for the present month. |
General Horace Porter, A. T.. Watrous.
General o. o. Howard, General
Ely s. Parker and II. q. Crawford tell
what they know about the great soldier
while many portraits are published that
have never before appeared in any publi- |
eation. The remainder OF the magazine
contains II. II. Sherard's description of
the homo life OF Flammarion, the great
astroSomer; o Southern character study
by Mary II. Earle and one OF western life
b. Bret Harte. Another instaiment of
the Stevenson romance, "Ths
Ebb Tide" IL given, and Cleveland Moffett
Describes how animals In q menagsrie Are
trained, tanned and cared for.
MoOLunE's MAGAZINE. New York.
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